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topic: 3047Rail weighbridge
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posted: 18 Jul 2017 06:04

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Adrian Knights
 
 

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Can anybody point me towards pictures or diagrams of a rail weighbridge? I have a photograph of one at Watchet in Colin Maggs' book on the Minehead Branch but would like a bit more information so that I can model one.
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Adrian

posted: 18 Jul 2017 12:24

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Nigel Brown
 
 

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Google "Pooley weighbridge". Loads of pictures and diagrams. There are also etches available.

posted: 24 Jul 2017 06:20

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Adrian Knights
 
 

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Thanks for that Nigel.
What I'd really like to know is how the gauntlet track was arranged so that locomotives could bypass the weighbridge. It looks like a loop but with the tracks overlapped and something resembling catch points at either end. Any ideas?

posted: 24 Jul 2017 08:47

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rodney_hills
 
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134_240340_310000000.jpg134_240340_310000000.jpgHello,
Started here
http://www.scalefour.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4978

Followed links therefrom, including 
http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/73214-cadbury-bournville/page-2#entry1079868
From whence above photo taken at Bourneville (a Cadbury loco, left)  was culled.

Regards, Rodney Hills












posted: 24 Jul 2017 09:04

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Adrian Knights
 
 

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Thanks Rodney.

posted: 24 Jul 2017 09:24

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Adrian Knights wrote:
Thanks Rodney.
Adrian,
The RMweb thread cited also points to a drawing of a gauntleted track weighbridge
[url=http://www.victorianrailways.net/infastuct/aa_fseries/F408_Turnouts-Weighbridges.jpg ]http://www.victorianrailways.net/infastuct/aa_fseries/F408_Turnouts-Weighbridges.jpg [/url]
(Above)
this is VR in Australia but many similarities to UK practice 
btw find in page 
[url=http://www.victorianrailways.net/infastuct/infastructhome.html ]http://www.victorianrailways.net/infastuct/infastructhome.html [/url]
on: weigh finds also 
[url=http://www.victorianrailways.net/infastuct/aa_fseries/F356.jpg ]http://www.victorianrailways.net/infastuct/aa_fseries/F356.jpg [/url]
weighbridge cabin

Regards
Rodney Hills








posted: 24 Jul 2017 10:29

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Nigel Brown
 
 

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Adrian Knights wrote:
Thanks for that Nigel.
What I'd really like to know is how the gauntlet track was arranged so that locomotives could bypass the weighbridge. It looks like a loop but with the tracks overlapped and something resembling catch points at either end. Any ideas?
Ah, I misunderstood. I thought you were looking for weighbridges in goods yards, non-rail based, as opposed to weighbridges for weighing railway wagons.

Cheers
Nigel

posted: 27 Jul 2017 06:58

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That's great Rodney. I think the diagram will enable me to have a fair crack at it.
Many thanks.

Adrian



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