I have found quite a number of pictures of 44422 with a Yellow stripe, (Dare I say go faster stripe) What does it denote if anything?

Isn't it something to do with working under overhead catenary?

The yellow stripe was painted on the cab side of various LMS steam locomotives as a reminder that they were banned from working under live 25kV overhead wires. This was generally due to the clearance for firemen to draw coal forward in the tender.

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While we're on the topic of diagonal stripes, what about the stripes sometimes seen on mineral wagons? You can see this in the picture below, though I admit I've weathered that wagon to within an inch of its life!

My understanding is the grey wagons don't have brakes, the bauxites one have vacuum brakes, but what did the stripe mean?

Cheers, NeMo

Hi NeMo 

The white stripe on the side of the mineral wagon shows the end of the wagon that has an end door
if you look at the wagon you can see that the ends look different the end with the door has the white stripe on the side

Hope this makes sense 

dave 

It does indeed make sense!

Thank you, NeMo

Generally speaking
  Grey - brakes on wagon but no vacuum brake (so had to be hand pinned on steep banks etc)  (not 'no brakes')
  Brown - train brake (vacuum).

The white bar was important for unloading. Woe betide anyone who dispatched a train to be unloaded with an end door wagon the wrong way around as it would mess up the wagon tipping.

http://www.swanseadocks.co.uk/Docks%20Railways%20Page2.htm

has some stuff on the handling of the wagons including a picture of the wagon tippers and gravity feed at Swansea Dock.

Some wagons also had a kind of white V towards the bottom in the middle, to indicate a bottom door. 

Quote from: NeMo on June 23, 2013, 09:56:48 AMthough I admit I've weathered that wagon to within an inch of its life!

Nice weathering!