Can anyone think of any examples of two loading gauges being suspended from a single gantry over two separate tracks? My problem being that I don?t want to have the damned things everywhere however I really should have one on each of two parallel tracks and I was just wondering if there were any real world examples of "two in one".
Don't know of example as you describe. I have seen a photo of a gantry with alternative loading gauges available. Can't remember where I have seen it or how the different types were selected though.
Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin wrote in news:470a11e7$0 $844$ snipped-for-privacy@news.optusnet.com.au:
Thanks for your reply, I've seen examples of the types you describe, I believe that they were in some places at least quite common. I'm going to build my "double" anyway ... there's bound to be a prototype somewhere and even if there isn't ... it's my railway! Cheers.
I'm sure I remember seeing a photo of one on the exit from a yard. The yard was in two halves (for want of a better expression), the two exit roads comming together at a double slip to go out onto the main or a headshunt. The gauges were on one bracket, one a couple of feet in front of the other and overlapping - they would have been a few feet "yardwards" of the slips first vee, hance the need for the bracket. I think it may have been in "It Can Now Be Revealed" - a booklet issue by the railways at the end of WWII - possibly in the photo of an 0-6-0T pulling about 20 loaded bogie brick wagons.
As an aside about the Garrett thread a while back, the 1943 version of the above booklet is on line somewhere (I forgot to boolmark it), and it mentions that Midland Garretts were booked to take 86 coal wagons from the Midlands to London daily - 1,400 tons apparently (that would include the engine weight being a freight train).
Cheers Richard
beamendsltd wrote in news:134f5304f% snipped-for-privacy@btconnect.com:
Yup, that's the beastie ... now if anyone complains I can use "the prototype for everything" phrase (only my yard has 4 halfs :-) not two, now work that out.
Four half-slips?
Greg.P.
Greg Procter wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@ihug.co.nz:
Well no, I was a little TIC. It?s fair to say that depending on which way a train enters the yard a lot of shunting may be required to get to certain parts of the it. However it is possible to rejoin the main line effectively from four different directions - the yard being accessed via either a loop around one of the station platforms or via a single slip at one end of the station - to which leads (directly) to a private siding and a goods siding. I do like to make things complicated - mind you, you should have seen it prior to my recent make-over.
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