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Post by ducatisti on Aug 31, 2008 19:43:08 GMT
Just back from keeping on an eye on loonies rattling around the mountain circuit (or marshalling the Manx if you prefer). Couple of pics from my day off up the Manx Electric Railway and the Snaefel, including an operating hazard not normally faced by LT - international motorsport. Also an odd turnout, any ideas? www.flickr.com/gp/27565507@N06/1D2Kv3 |
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Post by Chris M on Aug 31, 2008 23:40:30 GMT
Some good photos there.
Regarding your question about unusual pointwork, my uninformed guesses are that it requires less metal and that it might be simpler to manufacture. Not knowing any of the IoM systems, I don't know if either of these are or were significant considerations at any time.
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Post by mrfs42 on Sept 1, 2008 2:13:35 GMT
Single bladed point at the Summit. Look carefully and you'll see a double chamfer on the swinging blade - I've got at least 12 books that have further photos and I've seen at least 2 technical descriptions in them; you're more than welcome to browse the non-LU library next time you are out in the West my way ducatisti.
If there are any LU/LT purists here - remember that the LPTB were retained as consultants to the Manx Electric Railway - I've got a cartoon somewhere of an R stock attempting to leave Laxey up the hill to Snaefell. ;D
Edit: the damage to the wingrail would have been caused by a succession of deep flanges.
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 1, 2008 8:46:46 GMT
Chris M: ooh ta! As for why, I suspect the Island probably did it because everybody else doesn't...
mrfs: I may take you up on that. I can see how it works, it's the why that bugs me...
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Post by ducatisti on Sept 1, 2008 15:07:38 GMT
Oh - forgot to mention, went to the Groundle Glen railway when racing was called off (it's the one I have to tick off). It was shut as they don't open on weekdays, but the man pottering round the ticket office told me to ask in the shed for a look round, and the youth frying bacon on a trangia broke off this to give me a guided tour of carriage and engine sheds. (OK, neither of them very big, but still...) More reasons to move to the three-legged land...
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