Miscellaneous

Avon Bridge Power Station: misc_abps155

A composite of four images showing wrecked open wagons at the Power Station's rotary coal tippler.The four pictures show Locomotive No 2 in the wreckage of the rotary coal tippler following a shunting incident in the late 1940s. The rotary coal tipper had been installed in the early 1920s, replacing the original coal hoist, which was removed to create space for the Power Station extension. The standard gauge line to the rotary coal tipper allowed coal wagons to be brought along the private siding from the exchange sidings. There were several narrow gauge lines on the Avon Bridge Power Station site. These provided a means of transporting the waste ash removed from the boilers, but there are no records of any narrow gauge locomotives operating at the Power Station. A rotary wagon tippler is a mechanism used for unloading open wagons for the speedy discharge of coal or other bulk material. The tippler holds the wagon to a section of track and rotates the track and wagon as one unit in order to tip out all of the contents. This technology has largely been replaced by bogie wagons discharging their load through doors inserted in the bottom of the wagon.

Robert Ferris

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