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Sadly these are no longer up to much snuff, but there's still a robustness to them that puts them a bit above the usual bullhead launchers!
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We don't need to say it.
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Even a gronk can get launched skywards by the right bad buffer stop.
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On a number of occasions Sheffield Parkway played host to locomotives running away from Tinsley TMD. This ensemble piece, which did a runner during 1978, gained sufficient momentum to push 08223 almost onto the carriageway itself.
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Genuinely unsure which of these end of track devices is least effective... At least the gate won't launch a train skywards!
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How about a @SignaloftheDay and @RateMyBuffers double bill? Some railway infrastructure that is rarely photographed I'd imagine both images are taken from a warehouse just outside Dagenham dock station
This will still disintegrate on contact.
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If your train is actually striking a fixed buffer stop then it probably should have been a sliding buffer stop. And the dummy coupler doesn't appear to have engaged, either.
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A shame about the lack of dummy couplers!
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My new book ‘Upgrading the Isle of Wight’s Railway’ will be published by @penswordbooks next month and is currently available to preorder for just £18.75. (Full RRP is £25.00).
pen-and-sword.co.uk/Upgradin…
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ALT Book cover - Upgrading the Isle of Wight’s Railway
ALT Installing the new buffer stop at Shanklin
ALT An old 1938 Stock car being removed from Ryde St John’s Road by crane
WHEEEEEEEEEE!
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I feel sorry for the signaller.
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Lurking.
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The Blackfriars pub in London 1980s.
Can you name the three cars?
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Prove that this is attached to the ground.
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Sand trap?
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Absolutely baffling contraption.
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What's good is that these buffer stops have not been improved at all since this little incident...
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Splash.
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This buffer stop looks designed to trigger everything to collapse all at once, like a game of mousetrap.
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My favourite stop block at work, in a mill that makes Justin Roczniak's favourite engineered wood product, OSB. The tank car contains methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, one of the things you can make out of the poison gas from Bhopal. @GarethDennis @RateMyBuffers
Certainly substantial, with little evidence that an overrun is possible.
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Missing dummy coupler isn't great, but good track materials and decent occupancy for the traffic.
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Not sure if I’ve submitted this before but have some early morning Holyhead buffer action… #RateMyBuffer @RateMyBuffers @GarethDennis
The station building is the buffer stop.
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