Unknown rail gadget
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philipandpeta@...
Hello everybody,
Can anybody help with identifying this gadget, it was beside the light rail from the brickworks to the coal mine at Newnes NSW. It is 50mm long 13m high.
Regards Philip Hammon 190 Cliff Drive Katoomba 2780 +61247829139
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Tony Smith
It's a chair for a check or guard rail used with Bullhead rail. Sent from my SAMSUNG Galaxy J2 Pro on the Telstra Mobile Network
-------- Original message -------- From: philipandpeta@... Date: 5/6/20 12:02 pm (GMT+10:00) To: LRRSA@groups.io Subject: [LRRSA] Unknown rail gadget Hello everybody,
Can anybody help with identifying this gadget, it was beside the light rail from the brickworks to the coal mine at Newnes NSW. It is 50mm long 13m high.
Regards Philip Hammon 190 Cliff Drive Katoomba 2780 +61247829139
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Jeff Mullier
Philip, It appears to be a chaired rail (bullhead) chair. Due to the double chair slots could very well be from a point or another piece of trackwork requiring a check rail. Regards Jeff Mullier
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PH
Ahhh thank you didn’t think of bullhead rail ta
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On 5 Jun 2020, at 3:30 pm, Jeff Mullier via groups.io <jmullier@...> wrote:
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Its a door stop, and a very solid one at that.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 12:16 PM <philipandpeta@...> wrote:
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Cheers, Kevin Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement.
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And easy to convert to a yardbrush-head holder for scuffing mud off your boots :-) David 1/2d
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