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... goods yard was on the (say) up side of the line, the point leading to it was off the down line and the yard access then crossed the up line with a plain diamond, thus avoiding a facing point. Hi John, A common arrangement. Here's Rubery on the Halesowen branch: http://www.photobydjnorton.com/RailwayPictures/RuberyStnfromDownHome.jpg From this excellent site: http://www.photobydjnorton.com Often the diamond-crossing had a slip road added to make a trailing crossover, as here at Three Cocks Junction: trailing_slip.jpg© unknown regards, Martin. posted: 16 Apr 2012 21:10 from: TimRKirby Martin Wynne wrote: Often the diamond-crossing had a slip road added to make a trailing crossover, as here at Three Cocks Junction: trailing_slip.jpg© unknown That link appears to be somewhat broken, Martin (p.s. the 404 generated an error too- Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request) posted: 16 Apr 2012 21:15 from: Martin Wynne Hi ...
... Sep 2008 15:36 from: Martin Wynne John Shelley wrote: The GER had a similar arrangement somewhere, maybe Braintree, a photo featured in the GER Soc Journal, can't remember which one and they are packed up now prior to a forthcoming move. If I remember the details correctly it was to save on a facing point lock. Hi John, It's quite a common arrangement. But often the diamond is given a slip road to create a trailing crossover, so the original idea isn't so obvious. Like this: trailing_slip.jpg A nice sunny day in the 1950s somewhere in mid-Wales I think. The first switch in the yard seems very close to the V-crossing on the slip. I'm sure there must be some catch/trap points on the left, and the switch behind the photographer will be rodded from the box for the same reason. (Copied from a calendar ages ago, and I have now forgotten where, so© unknown -- anyone?) regards, Martin. posted: 26 Sep 2008 15:45 ...
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