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Building the last Main Line Railway

Contractor's Builders Yards & Locomotives: gcrcs48

LNER stations and trains

The contractor's 0-6-0ST locomotive 'St George' on a train of contractors wagons. Of interest is the fact that the end of each wagon nearest to the locomotive is open indicating that each will be tipped end on. The wagon to the left shows that its 'dumb' buffers are sited inside the wheels, not as wide as standard railway practice. As can be seen, St George's inside set of 'dumb' buffers match the wagon's buffers. They are called 'dumb' because they are solid and are not sprung to reduce the impact of the collision when shunted against each other. The couplings were very crude, on the wagon its a length of chain with a round link in the middle and on the locomotive its a chain with a hook on the end. C1896

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