Thursday 21 April 2016

Southern loading gauge

Another head scratch moment. The rule of course is don't read instructions and don't read the label. The Ratio loading gauge ( is that really the correct term?) is marked SR/BR. Err...I can't find any picture in any Southern book which shows a similar bit of kit. The post itself yes, but not the rather convoluted lifting mechanism. What they all have is a bar across the top and 'jutty-out' bits holding cable/chains which hold the bump bar.
Keep the post, keep the bar and bodge the rest seems the likely solution.

4 comments:

  1. This is a bit of a heads up for me. I just bought one of these in the last few days. And following on from your post a quick Google search threw up an example at the preserved station, Midsomer Norton that looks a bit like the diagram and components.

    I'll probably just suck it up and build the model as is.

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  2. There's one still by the line between Ham Street and Ashford at the site of the former Ruckinge Crossing, it features at about 51 minutes here:
    https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FsmI8__-vGb8&h=eAQFYm1-w&enc=AZPP9QTw0sEsS4z4Vb-6JX7nQwil2TCDIVbnUd2WJI3JYlLBETCGJiW9wQW5W5b02FBpMhZeyQ3jRAHkITpcmM2L

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  3. Ahh, but that proves my point. A prototype tucked away on the S&D is hardly 'typical'. Southern, yes, but it's stretching the point a bit. The typical is this one at Heathfield which crops up all over the region.
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/31890193@N08/sets/72157638151297203/with/11102950816/

    CF

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  4. I think I've found the one you're talking about. Nope, standard lifting bar with outriggers not like the Ratio kit.

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