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Level xing gates query

Further to my last enquiry regarding the MR loco I have been looking at the photo more closely - The crossing gates are unlike any I have seen before, heavy square posts about eight feet high with a gas lamp atop each one. There is no 'bulls-eye' and I cannot see any sign of a wheel in the signal box (which does not have any name on it) - There is a chap in what looks like a uniform close by the gates, perhaps they were operated by a porter.

That was in 1905 of course, by the 1970s the gates were painted white and had a red bulls-eye in two parts in the centre.

My questions are-

  1. Did BR have a standard design of crossing gate?

  1. Anyone ever seen gates like those in the photo before or elsewhere?

The photo is on . . .

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I would still like to identify the loco (although I am not sure if those are passenger coaches or cattle vans in tow).

Regards

Mike

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Mike Smith
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Hi Mike Don't forget BR didn't appear until 1948 but was still heavily biased towards the designs of the big four consistuents for the first few years.

The engine is a bit of a strange animal. In one sense is looks a bit LNW but the spectacle plates don't appear LNW. It is quite a short loco, maybe an 0-4-2, or an 0-6-0. I initially thought it was something like a Webb radial or something similar but it is too short.

Cheers Phil

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wyrleybart

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I wouldn't have thought that a CLC local? train would be hauled by a L&NWR loco. The CLC line was MR/GC/GN, and the motive power was supplied by the Great Central (MS&L in 1904?) - hence all the "6xxxx" numbers I collected at Northwich in the 50s, the GC locos pasing to the LNER in 1923 and BR(E) in 1948.

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David Jackson

BR's predecessors certainly didn't. There were no two of the same pattern around here. They built whatever fit.

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kim

Cheers for that - Tried to get it but got something very wierd when I tried right click and properties.

Mike

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Mike Smith

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