Inspired By The Corris Railway!<\/span><\/p>\n
What’s on the front could also be diesel or electric.<\/p>\n
But a large steam loco really does need to be turned through 180 degrees on a turntable. That is a headache for those organising steam rail tours and they need to find somewhere near the ultimate destination with a turntable – and these are rare beasts these days.<\/p><\/div>\n
The fireman stayed in the cab a-shovelling, whilst the driver had a far more comfortable ride in the front of the autocoach. He has a chain to the whistle, a linkage to the regulator and his own handbrake and vacuum brake.<\/p>\n
The modern version is a Driving Van Trailer at one end and the “proper” loco at the other.<\/p>\n
Another ruse was to instal a simple pivoted piece of track that could move between two sets of rails but not actually turn the loco round (a sector plate).<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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… or a mini turntable at Bembridge.<\/p>\n
Only rarely were locos turned right round at Bembridge – the mini turntable was simply a space saver!<\/p><\/div>\n
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Bit it did not have a turntable – shock horror<\/span>! Because there was plenty of space in this rural backwater, it was cheaper to build its very own engine shed triangle.<\/p>\n
That’s where the turing took place.<\/p><\/div>\n
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Inspired By The Corris Railway! Apart from a very few modern examples, it is no longer necessary to think about turning trains round. They come as a close coupled unit usually with power spread throughout the carriages. So gone are the days when a mildly interested passenger asked “what is on the front”? What’s on the front could also be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}