Hi All.
Could anyone help with rail gauges for mine tubs in the Gunnerside area of North Yorks, I know 18 or 10 pounders were used. The ones I have come across seem to be of a 21" gauge, the top of the rail being 1 1/2" connected by heavy feet (4 to 5lb) in weight bolted onto sleepers by 1" bolts. Each rail is connected by a iron wedge driven through the foot locking each rail into place. Some of the rails have been bent into perfect curves as if bent on a pipe bending machine. Doing my training as a timber lad as a young man with the NCB in 1963 methods were not as good or expensive as these, the rails were simply joined by fich plates (sometimes) and hammered straight into sleepers, sometimes sleepers were not used but joined by the fich plates only. Two rails and four feet must must have worked out very, very expense in those days.
Barry
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