Level crossing drawings - lamps & LSWR rodded gates

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LSWRcrossinggate.pdf

A pair of drawings, drawn a long time ago but only recently scanned, which may prove useful to others. 

 

The lamps were SR standard for level crossing gates.

 

The Sutton Road Crossing gates are of the LSWR rodded pattern which was considered secure without the addition of mesh and hence are reasonably easy to model. I don't know when they were installed, Sutton Road Crossing (in Plymouth on the goods line down to Sutton Harbour) was opened in October 1879 but I strongly suspect that it wasn't gated until much later, possibly after the Great War, even though a "signal" box was provided. When the gates were put in they were (surprisingly) mechanically worked. The drawings show the two overlapping gates on the box side of the crossing, there were gates the other side of the road too but these had gone (and the track lifted) when I measured them up in 1966. There was a photo on page 193 of the August 1961 issue of Railway Modeller, there are others around on the internet which show the derelict site but don't add anything useful.