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My memories of travelling in steam-heated Mk 1 carriages in the 1960s was that the diesel locomotive boiler produced steam which went through pipes in each carriage quite effectively heating the train. In compartment stock there was a big metal switch on the wall for turning the heating on or off (confusingly BR later put a second metal switch for electric heating in compartments for use when the train was hauled by a locomotive equipped for electric train heating and passengers tried both on a trial and error basis, but that's another story). Steam always leaked from joints in the steam heating pipes and my memories in winter were always of trains coming in with steam hissing out from these pipes. You may be interested in the attached photograph of a Peak class diesel locomotive at Sheffield station in 1971 with said steam escaping from it.
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