shunting on the SAR
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2024 7:13 pm
I'm always interested in seeing how shunting operations were carried out on real NG railways, so when my near neighbour (Clive) sent me this video he'd discovered of a Garratt shunting on the SAR, I was intrigued.
What surprised and pleased me was the pace at which the manoeuvre was carried out. Very reassuring that similar operations on the PLR can often be done at a lick!
Clive, who grew up as the son of a station master on one of the SAR 2' lines, has been making a 3D printed model of one of the Garratts which steamed past on a regular basis. He tells me that his cousin's husband worked on the railway and developed a knack of aligning the chopper couplings during shunting by using his foot. ...... He lost his foot! Clive says - "He wasn't the sharpest pencil in the box"
Rik
What surprised and pleased me was the pace at which the manoeuvre was carried out. Very reassuring that similar operations on the PLR can often be done at a lick!
Clive, who grew up as the son of a station master on one of the SAR 2' lines, has been making a 3D printed model of one of the Garratts which steamed past on a regular basis. He tells me that his cousin's husband worked on the railway and developed a knack of aligning the chopper couplings during shunting by using his foot. ...... He lost his foot! Clive says - "He wasn't the sharpest pencil in the box"
Rik