Collection of plate gauges of various rail sections

Made:
Swindon

Collection of plate gauges of various rail sections, recovered from British Rail Engineering Ltd. Swindon.

Details

Category:
Railway Infrastructure
Object Number:
1988-910
type:
rail sections
credit:
British Railways Board, Euston Square

Parts

Rail profile set

Rail profile set

Rail profile set, standard, end and side, for Great Western Railway 150lb conductor rail, by Guest, Keen & Baldwin, 1939, in fitted mahogany case, lid missing, from Swindon Works.

Object Number:
1988-910/1
type:
rail profile set
Rail section

Rail section

Rail section, thin, unidentified flat-bottomed rail, possibly an apprentice test-piece, from Swindon Works.

Object Number:
1988-910/2
type:
rail section
Rail section

Rail section

Rail section, thin, unidentified bull-head rail, possibly an apprentice test-piece, from Swindon Works.

Object Number:
1988-910/3
type:
rail section