... topic: 3003 NBR special chairs posted: 2 Apr 2017 23:30 from: grahamroberts Out walking today, I came across the remains of a quarry siding off the erstwhile Waverley Route (the modern Border Railway), and was interested to find a few unconventionally-shaped NBR bullhead rail chairs dated 1922, still in place on their sleepers. There were several sleepers' worth of these, in left-hand and right-hand patterns: 62_021819_420000000.jpg 62_021820_190000000.jpg Are these chairs possibly for rail-built buffer-stops? (they were close to the end of the siding). If not, what is the wider base-plate for? regards Graham Roberts posted: 3 Apr 2017 00:14 from: Martin Wynne Hi Graham, My guess (purely a guess) is that they are joint chairs. Allowing the rail to be supported as close to the joint as possible while leaving space for the fishplate. If so, and found near the end of a siding they were probably on a second-hand track panel, where connected ...