The GW item is a wheel press for quartering wheels such as Maygibs.
The other item looks like a press for securing Brooke Smith rivets into sleepers or crossing timbers. There is/was a similar tool that you use to punch the rivet holes in the crossing timbers
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in Up the Line - 1918
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The GW item is a wheel press for quartering wheels such as Maygibs.
The other item looks like a press for securing Brooke Smith rivets into sleepers or crossing timbers. There is/was a similar tool that you use to punch the rivet holes in the crossing timbers