Thanks for the enquiry. We don't seem to have any railway coaling towers recorded in the Highlands.
John Wood
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From: Iles, Peter [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 12 December 2002 16:49
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Subject: Railway Heritage
Could I ask SMR officers and other curators out there to look at their
records and let me know if they have any railway coaling towers or ash
plants on record. In particular I am interested in surviving examples with
or without their machinery. I have a feeling that there may be very few
survivals.
The type of coaling installation I am talking about is a concrete structure
designed to hoist a truck up its side and dump the contents into a hopper,
from which it could be discharged directly into a coal tender or a steam
engine's bunker. We have a surviving structure at Carnforth, Lancashire,
built c.1940, which still has most if not all of its machinery but whose
concrete is in a poor way.
The ash plant is a smaller structure but similar in concept. It has a
trench containing a conveyor belt between the rails to gather ashes dumped
directly down from an engine's firebox, this leads to a small truck which is
filled and then hoisted/emptied as before, then the hopper was emptied into
a full-size truck and the ash taken away for disposal.
Both of these structures are Listed grade II, but if rare enough may merit
'promotion'. They are associated with a large railway locomotive and
rolling stock yard, with turntable, engine sheds and workshops, large metal
water tower, etc.
For some reason there are no photographs of these structures on the 'Images
of England' site, but if anyone wants a photo or two to see what I'm talking
about, please let me know.
Thanks in advance (oh and Merry Christmas)
Peter Iles, Lancashire Sites and Monuments Record
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