Buffer stop

[coyote]

Found this while looking through old photos on the phone, are there many like this still around?

flic.kr/p/2jZ62zR

[Tom]

Where was that?

I've seen similar-ish at Queen's Park, but nothing quite the same.

[brigham]

Those look like converted wagon buffers.
We used to make buffer stops, usually out of bent rail. Apprentices would turn them out as an exercise.
Now we appear to import them!

[Tom]

These days buffer stops are less there to stop a low speed misjudgement or to buff up against, and more to provide a controlled retardation. There's a lot more science in it now.

[DWS]

Oct 25, 2020 18:16:44 GMT brigham said:

Those look like converted wagon buffers.
We used to make buffer stops, usually out of bent rail. Apprentices would turn them out as an exercise.
Now we appear to import them!

Import them, the buffer stops or the Apprentices ?

[bruce]

I believe there is a similar buffer stop at the end of the blind tunnel in London Road Depot.

[brigham]

Oct 26, 2020 7:18:11 GMT DWS said:

Oct 25, 2020 18:16:44 GMT brigham said:

Those look like converted wagon buffers.
We used to make buffer stops, usually out of bent rail. Apprentices would turn them out as an exercise.
Now we appear to import them!

Import them, the buffer stops or the Apprentices ?

I dread to think.

Anything can happen now that taking coals to Newcastle is 'normal'.

[spsmiler]

Oct 25, 2020 16:43:47 GMT coyote said:

Found this while looking through old photos on the phone, are there many like this still around?

flic.kr/p/2jZ62zR

That looks line something which was made by Mr Heath Robinson ... in the days when the UndergrounD was young and things were done differently than today!

[Deleted]

Oct 25, 2020 16:43:47 GMT coyote said:

Found this while looking through old photos on the phone, are there many like this still around?

flic.kr/p/2jZ62zR

That looks like behind West Kensington West IMR