Buffer stops - some ideas to model...

[Guest baldrick25]

An overview of prototype buffer stops, that may be worth a modeller's eye..

Stalybridge bay platform -

 

Stalybridge (bay platform) -

 

Preston ( south bay) -

 

Preston ( south bay) -

 

Preston ( south bay) -

 

Preston ( south bay) -

 

Preston ( north bay) -

 

Preston ( north bay) -

 

Wolverhampton (platform 6) -

 

Wolverhampton (platform 6) -

 

New Brighton ( Merseyrail) -

 

New Brighton (Merseyrail) -

 

Birkenhead North (Merseyrail) -

 

Wrexham Central

 

Croesnewydd north (south of Wrexham general station) -

 

Wrexham General ( WSMR bay) -

 

Wrexham general ( WSMR bay) -

 

Chester ( Wrexham bay )-

 

Chester ( Wrexham bay) -

 

Crewe (South bay) -

 

Stockport (north bay)-

 

Stockport (north bay) -

 

Crewe (Chester bay) -

 

Chester (Crewe bay) -

 

Chester (sidings) -

 

LLandudno Junction siding -

 

Llandudno Junction (bay platform)-

 

Midland Railway Centre ( Swanwick) -

 

Peak Rail (Rowsley) -

 

Larger images or different views of the above available if needed.

[Stubby47]

An excellent set of photos there, some even look like the Peco ones...

[Dagworth]

The one at Chester ( Wrexham bay ) is a P4 stop bodged onto OO gauge track

 

Very useful set of photos, I've not noticed the extra wide chairs that take two rails bolted together before.

 

Andi

[melmerby]

Like the RH one at New Brighton. Upturned rail designed to catch the leading wheelset after the rest of the unit has gone through the wall!!!

 

Keith

[emac]

Ideal was looking for a few examples to build

A few from Crainlarich on WHL which I had

 

 

 

 

Eddie

[birdseyecircus]

Excellent set of pictures and it just goes to show that there is not one network wide Standard design.

 

Paul

[mezzoman253]

Nice group of photos to get the modelling juices flowing. I really like the one of Stockport (North Bay) with it's own refreshment compartment!

 

Rob

[Boris]

Next time I'm in Whitby I must photograph the set in the bushes there, I've never seen any quite like them. Similar to the ones shown from Prestons south bay platform, but with a second piece of timber behind the first with a huge great spring between the two.

[D802 FORMIDABLE]

Thanks for those Baldrick, they are indeed a lot of help.

cheers

Anthony

[ArthurK]

How about these at North Wylam almost hidden in the undergrowth. NER in origin. I bought two sets of brass castings for these many years ago from the long defunct firm of Micro Metalsmiths. Incidentally this firm also produced an excellent motor/gearbox. using a coreless motor but with bevel and spur drive. Final drive was a 3:1 skew gear on the axle.

[Chris Higgs]

Just thought I'd have a go at ID-ing some of these:

 

Those at Stalybridge, Preston, Wolverhampton and Llandudno Junction are all variations on the LMS wartime design then taken up be BR. Stalybridge is a lightweight version (there is also one of these in the carriage sidings at Cheltenham) with the inner leg omitted.

 

New Brighton - hardly counts as a stop at all!

 

Birkenhead North - a heavyweight design often seen on the LMS (there was one at Rewley Road so could be of LNWR origin) but also used on the LNER York division. So perhaps it originates from a third party contractor

 

Croesnewydd North, Chester General - the GWR design. There are loads of these at Reading shed, so I suspect Swindon continued to make them after nationalisation.

 

Chester Wrexham Bay, Peak Rail - a derivative of that at Birkenhead North, still I think being made today, as you see them brand new on Network Rail. This is however the first ones I have seen with the additional rail bolted onto the outside of the running rails.

 

Crewe South bay - appears to be hydraulic buffers grafted onto the standard LNWER design

 

Chester Crewe bay - wagon buffers mounted on the LMS/BR design

 

Chester sidings - the LNWR standard design

 

Midland Railway Centre - the Midland design (what else!). Hidden under the ballast are probably two more layers of track, this is how the Midland got rigidity into their apparently puny construction.

 

Chris Higgs

[lmsforever]

Eddie This last one is suffering from subsidense or else it was wacked by a 37 once! Good photos Chris

[Guest baldrick25]

A couple of buffers spotted at Buxton on a passing visit today.

 

The buffers at the end of the sitll-in-use tracks to the station.

 

The buffer at the end of the track into the now defunct workshop shed- normally overgrown..

 

Some shots of the Buxton sheds as they are today are in a seperate new thread. HERE

[Guest baldrick25]

Carlisle station- south bay platform (used for the Workington DMU)

 

Carlisle station - against the west stone wall

 

Warrington Bank Quay, the OnTrack Plant sidings to the north of the station.

 

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A couple more 'assorted' buffer stops seen at the Severn Valley Railway today.

 

South of Bewdley station and bolted on the face of a 40 foot high sandstone cliff- makes it all feel a bit superfluous, unless its just a 'gentle stop' before the big bang....

 

and at Highley just south of the station

[Guest baldrick25]

A psychodelic buffer stop, at Stourbridge Town- go through that and you're in the bus station. There is also a charcterless modern one twenty foot further along the track to stop the Parry People Mover should it be needed.

[Coach bogie]

One of my favourites was at Guide Bridge

 

Mike Wiltshire

[Coach bogie]

I have modelled something similar to this as the broken ones looked interesting. Castleton Junction 1990

 

Mike Wiltshire

[stewartingram]

Huntingdon platform 1 - looks like an emu over-ran?

Apologies for quality, night shot on a phone.

Stewart

 

[bha6990]

Two rather forlorn looking ones at Whitland a couple of months ago.

[bha6990]

..........and an interesting one at Crianlarich a couple of years back.

 

Just joined and using this to test if I can post pics.......seemed to have cracked it!