Dazzler Fan Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 I have about a metre of book shelf devoted to SDJR, and nowhere can find an example of siding ends customary in industrial sidings pre LMS. Can I rely on wooden rail ties, or was a heap of earth/gravel more common? Maybe I have missed an example in my books: anyone with a reference please. Noel. . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted September 11, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 11, 2011 I think it would depend on the undertaking, some may have had a company policy to provide proper buffer stops, whether rail-built or sleeper built. Others may have been a bit more relaxed about it. Also, what may also have determined the outcome is whether main line locos were permitted into the industrial sidings, if so, the main liine company may have insisted on proper buffer stops as part of their Private Siding Agreement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigelb Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 i have vague memories from Blandford that one of the sidings ended up against a stone built buffer ( same stone as the corn merchants) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted September 11, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 11, 2011 The more I think about this, the more I am persuaded that some kind of buffer would normally have been provided. Otherwise the lack of a fixed buffer stop would have inhibited the often 'carefree' shunting practices of the time, which would sometimes have involved loose shunting wagons into sidings. You wouldn't want them falling off into the dirt at the end of the siding, this costs time and money to re-rail them, so I believe that normal practice would have been to have provided some kind of obstacle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RailWest Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 "i have vague memories from Blandford that one of the sidings ended up against a stone built buffer...." But was that an 'industrial siding' or on railway property? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigelb Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 "i have vague memories from Blandford that one of the sidings ended up against a stone built buffer...." But was that an 'industrial siding' or on railway property? mmmmmmmm im not suer what the coal / corn yard was classed as Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler Fan Posted September 14, 2011 Author Share Posted September 14, 2011 Thank you for the replies. Private siding often had gates beyond which, as you say, the rule of the Railway Company was not enforced; whereas with sidings open to the main line, things were done properly. I think I will err on putting in sleeper built stops. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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