Please Help
Can you identify the following British Rail hats?
Answers from James Blair:
The different hats denote different jobs or grades of British
Rail staff.
Blue cap, gold metal badge with bevelled edges, soft black peak.
Locomotive driver 1973 issue
Dark Blue cap, hard black peak, flat metal silver badge, no colour across front, no
band around sides
Locomotive secondman 1967 issue
Blue cap, silver woven badge, 2 silver bands across front, 2 silver bands around
sides
Guard - 1983 issue
 Blue cap, gold
woven badge, 2 gold bands across front, 2 gold bands around sides
Inspector 1983 issue
Blue cap, gold woven badge, 2 gold bands across front, 3 gold bands around sides
Senior Station Manager (Stationmaster) 1983 issue
Dark
Blue cap, gold woven badge, no colour across front, 3 gold bands around
sides
Junior Station Manager (Station Master) 1983 issue
Blue cap, hard black peak, red painted metal badge with bevelled edges, no colour across front, 1 thin red
band around sides
Porter 1966 issue
Blue cap, red woven badge, 1 thick red band across front, 1 thick red band
around sides
Porter 1983 issue | 
