Miscellaneous

Avon Bridge Power Station: misc_abps172

A photograph and diagram showing a similar rotary tipper discharging slack coal at another location. This has been included to show how this rotary tipper equipment worked. Wagons would be shunted into the cradle where they were secured to keep them on the track during the tipping operation. The cradle and track would then be slowly rotated to discharge its load into a large underground hopper from where the material could be fed in a control manner by the Jigger feed at the bottom of the hopper on to a coal hoist or conveyor system. Once the wagon was emptied the cradle would be restored to its normal upright position, allowing the securing apparatus to be removed from the empty wagon, which could then be shunted out of the cradle and replaced with the next full one.

Robert Ferris

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