Unidentified yard structure

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The attached photo is an extract from a photo showing the north end of the goods yard at Chorlton-######-Hardy station (MR/CLC) in South Manchester in the mid-1950s.

 

My question is does anyone know what the white thing is? It looks like it might be a hand point lever (although the "lever" looks very upright), but I've failed to find anything similar elsewhere.

 

 

 

Any help greatly appreciated!

 

Simon

[Captain Kernow]

It's position next to some pointwork might indicate a point lever, as you say.

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Thanks for the response Captain. The "lever" is next to the double slip in the trackplan shown below:

 

 

Am I right in thinking that one half of the double slip could have been worked by a point lever rather than from the box?

 

If so I think it's a point lever. It's probably the perspective making the lever look more upright than it is and there seems to be some kind of rodding coming out of the back of it in the same sort of fashion as these:

 

http://www.trainweb.org/railwest/images/gf/b-alston.jpg

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pcsKR58oLbE/TEa4rnB2qMI/AAAAAAAABh8/tTo1VhQnQCs/s1600/DSCF9392.JPG

 

 

I still haven't found anything Cheshire lines or Midland that looks quite like it though.

 

Simon

[Captain Kernow]

Am I right in thinking that one half of the double slip could have been worked by a point lever rather than from the box?

 

Yes, there's an example of a double slip just outside Bristol TM, where part is worked by the panel, and part on hand levers (country-end entrance to Kingsland Road sidings).

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Thanks for the confirmation Captain.

 

Simon