|
|
Post by coyote on Oct 25, 2020 16:43:47 GMT
Found this while looking through old photos on the phone, are there many like this still around? flic.kr/p/2jZ62zR |
|
Tom
Administrator
Signalfel?
Posts: 4,196 
|
Post by Tom on Oct 25, 2020 17:39:23 GMT
Where was that?
I've seen similar-ish at Queen's Park, but nothing quite the same.
|
|
|
|
Post by brigham on Oct 25, 2020 18:16:44 GMT
Those look like converted wagon buffers.
We used to make buffer stops, usually out of bent rail. Apprentices would turn them out as an exercise.
Now we appear to import them!
|
|
Tom
Administrator
Signalfel?
Posts: 4,196
|
Post by Tom on Oct 25, 2020 19:17:36 GMT
These days buffer stops are less there to stop a low speed misjudgement or to buff up against, and more to provide a controlled retardation. There's a lot more science in it now.
|
|
DWS
every second count's
Posts: 2,487
|
Post by DWS on Oct 26, 2020 7:18:11 GMT
Those look like converted wagon buffers. We used to make buffer stops, usually out of bent rail. Apprentices would turn them out as an exercise. Now we appear to import them! Import them, the buffer stops or the Apprentices ? |
|
|
|
Post by bruce on Oct 26, 2020 7:54:13 GMT
I believe there is a similar buffer stop at the end of the blind tunnel in London Road Depot.
|
|
|
|
Post by brigham on Oct 26, 2020 8:27:18 GMT
Those look like converted wagon buffers. We used to make buffer stops, usually out of bent rail. Apprentices would turn them out as an exercise. Now we appear to import them! Import them, the buffer stops or the Apprentices ? I dread to think. Anything can happen now that taking coals to Newcastle is 'normal'. |
|
|
|
Post by spsmiler on Oct 31, 2020 15:08:45 GMT
Found this while looking through old photos on the phone, are there many like this still around? flic.kr/p/2jZ62zRThat looks line something which was made by Mr Heath Robinson ... in the days when the UndergrounD was young and things were done differently than today! |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2020 16:14:53 GMT
Found this while looking through old photos on the phone, are there many like this still around? flic.kr/p/2jZ62zRThat looks like behind West Kensington West IMR |
|
