Posted by IIVQ |
5/30/2005 6:19 PM | remove |
Cool. Did you find remains of the sunken line?
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Posted by SnakeCorp |
5/30/2005 6:39 PM | remove |
Yep, it ran parallel to the wire fence on the right of the photo (where the muddy ground is). If you follow that muddy ground towards the edge of the photo, you can just about see the remains of the stone platform edging.
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Posted by IIVQ |
5/30/2005 7:04 PM | remove |
yah
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Posted by IIVQ |
8/28/2005 9:12 PM | remove |
These are some sturdy "trainstoppers" (don't know what the english word is, in Dutch it's "bump block"
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Posted by SnakeCorp |
8/29/2005 11:31 AM | remove |
They're called Buffer Stops in the UK. These ones look like the originals, dating from the 1880s. Its possible that the sidings track might be original too.
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Posted by IIVQ |
8/30/2005 7:34 AM | remove |
Yes, but in the Netherlands they're usually not so heavily constructed.
A buffer block is meant to stop the train - even if it damages the buffer block. Only in instances where the cost of a broken car / loco would be less than the cost of a train overshooting the block, for instance where a train would block a waterway, these heavy buffer blocks would be used.
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Posted by rainman8889 |
8/31/2005 1:29 AM | remove |
Don't some of them have a big chunk of rubber to minimize the damage?
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Posted by IIVQ |
8/31/2005 9:54 AM | remove |
Yep, some have.
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