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GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
Danzey for Tanworth Station: gwrdt1571
A winter photograph of the weighbridge office and road-plate
in Danzey for Tanworth station's goods yard. The office is a prefabricated
corrugated steel hut design with additional side windows added to allow a clear
view of the weighbridge plate. There is no evidence of any heating or power
supply. The notice board in the background, is the one adjacent to the station
entrance from Danzey Green Lane. According to the Great Western Railways
Engineering Dept. Instructions (1933), the weighbridge plate and machines were
provided, calibrated, certificated, repaired and maintained by an external
contractor (Messrs. Pooley & Sons), who took responsibility for compliance
with the Weights and Measures Acts (1878 and 1889), while the railway company
provided and maintained an office suitable to accommodate one person and the
equipment.
The standard office size required was 10 foot by 8 foot,
but where rapid weighing was required, an automatic indicator was fitted,
requiring an additional 2 foot length. Weighbridge capacities varied, with
either 15 and 20 tons available for new machines and plate sizes ranged in 2
foot increments from 14 foot to 20 foot. All were 8 foot wide. The Great
Western Railway official instructions detailed in the Towns, Villages,
Outlaying Works, etc book of 1938, identified that Danzey station only dealt
with Station to Station goods at this time. Carted goods and parcel traffic
were to be routed via the Railway Country Lorry Service operating out of the
Henley on Arden depot, which was four miles distant. There was however special
rates for the conveyance of small tonnage agricultural, farm and dairy produce
between local stations and it is likely that some of this traffic was dealt
with at Danzey goods yard.
Robert Ferris
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