Night time riding - equipment/advice

[rockyroad]

Greetings! Long-time reader, finally decided to sign up.

Work make it difficult to ride during daylight hours so I would like to start riding at night (guess it'd be just poorly lit streets and roads at first, as I'm getting used to it).
Solo, if this matters. Anything worth buying apart from light equipment and reflective gear?
Not going to do anything too difficult, but any advice would be appreciated.
Also need recommendations both for flashlight and headlight - from what I found, it's recommended to use both on night roads. Or it would be an overkill?

Thanks in advance!

[chrisx]

A little 3m reflective tape works quite well.
Be seen, let the cars know you are there.

[timsmcm]

have a very strong flashing tail light. Stay as far from traffic as possible. They don't think we have the right to their roads.