"Danger overhead live wires" stickers on locos/stock

[renegademaster]

When did these stickers start and stop being a requirement. You can see them on most heritage line diesel locos, some mark 1 carriages. I don't think you see them on most modern EMUs. Haven't really looked close enough to modern freight locos to tell if they have them.

 

[snowball]

They've certainly been around for at least 50 years.

 

[Magdalia]

When did these stickers start and stop being a requirement. You can see them on most heritage line diesel locos, some mark 1 carriages. I don't think you see them on most modern EMUs. Haven't really looked close enough to modern freight locos to tell if they have them.

Electrification warning signs on rolling stock started in 1960.

They followed on from an incident near Colchester, not long after the Clacton branch was energised, when a driver climbed up onto his steam loco while waiting at a signal and was killed by electrocution.

As a safety requirement they were replaced in the mid 1980s by the orange warning stripe at roof level.

 

[twpsaesneg]

As a safety requirement they were replaced in the mid 1980s by the orange warning stripe at roof level.

I believe "supplemented by" rather than replaced, as stock ran / runs with both. There were two styles of red on white warning flash and then sometime, I think in the 2000's changed to the internationally recognised black on yellow warning sign convention.