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Presentation
Blatchington Mill January 2012
Note that images are heavily degraded in this PDF. This was essential to reduce file size (from 116MB down to 1.3MB) and it also ensures that copyright images are unfit for printed reproduction.
Extracts from Archival Sources
Chronological carriage data (1840-69)
Specifications of 1st and 2nd class, 1851
Third class travel on LCR and LBR in 1842
Traffic and Stores Committee 1868-70
Wheels
Drawing of two unusual wheel types used early 1850s for 1st and 2nd class Craven carriages
Coloured drawings of left wheel:
Outer face (drawing 830)
Inner face (drawing 830)
Cross section (drawing 816)
The left one is called a Wharton Wheel, or Wharton’s cheese wheel (see 6 plates from end of volume); an amazing book with diagrams of carriage turntables, pointwork, wagon construction etc.
Clark Railway Machinery
Text (see page 268)
Plates (amongst the last plates shows carriage wheels)
Link to a book by Adams – go to page 264 and then scroll down to plate on next page, which shows a road carriage spring wheel
Note that this William Adams was a major builder of carriages for the LB&SCR. The book does end with a chapter on railway wheels, and also has a very good chapter on materials used in carriage building, which is probably applicable to early railway carriage building too.
Link to book with wedge wheel on page 88
Parkin’s wheel on page 418 and then scroll up to drawing
