Do you need the check-rail or tram-rail on a dock if the ground is cobbled?

[keefer]

On 02/07/2023 at 21:39, keefer said:

I see Glasgow has been mentioned, I was going to suggest the Whiteinch Tramway, serving warehouses on the north bank if the Clyde.

Can't remember where I read it, it might be in the ScR Sectional Appendix so I'll have a look.

Managed to have a look and although there are one-and-a-but pages of operating instructions regarding BR staff & locos etc., there is no mention of track gauge/components.

I must've read about it somewhere else though, as I remember mention of wagons running on their flanges.

[Dunalastair]

One of the iconic images of the Fairfield Shipyard loco running on Corporation tramway tracks. The SRPS now has the loco.

 

https://motoringheritage.co.uk/product/fairfield-shipyard-locoon-tram-lines/

 

And to show that it could also run on conventional track

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/51227209@N03/5993394402

 

Edited July 4, 2023 by Dunalastair