I've absolutely no idea but it does look good...............it does look familiar though.

Looks like some sort of press tool. For a footplate?

Ivan, it's not a press tool but you are slightly warm with the footplate comment.

.... you are slightly warm with the footplate comment.

I'll quit whilst I'm ahead, then.

Firebox wrapper

Firebox wrapper

No

I'm going to dig out the wreck of a Bachmann "Evening Star" and see if this object is in any way 9F-related....

Isn't it something to do with the Barrow Road turntable pit?

Give that man a prize! Well done Dave you are on the right track. Can you be more specific?

Cheers....Morgan

Edging pieces in the 4', where the track meets the pit?

Ivan, it's not a press tool but you are slightly warm with the footplate comment.

That was a rather large red herring Morgan! 

Perhaps John but I didn't really think so. It is something that you would walk / stand on. Maybe I should have said "foot plate" rather than "footplate".  I hope Ivan isn't still scratching his head with a dismantled 9F in front of him.

Anyway, it is all academic now as Dave has guessed correctly. It is a master for one of the Barrow Road turntable kerb castings.  There are 24 of these that, as Dave rightly points out, go in the 4 foot.  There are two further kerb masters to make. One goes in 20 locations in the narrow gap between roundhouse roads and the other, the largest of the three, goes between the roads that have a roof support column.

I'll draft a new blog posting when I get more time to explain how I made them and how I intend to make the replicas.

Cheers....Morgan

... I hope Ivan isn't still scratching his head with a dismantled 9F in front of him ....

*looks up distractedly from dismantled wreck*

What's that you say!??