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INSTRUCTIONS FOR WORKING COVVHEAD COUPLINGS FITTED
TO TYNENIOUTH ELECTRIC STOCK.
General Rules 23 and 174.
1.—The Tynemouth electric stock is fitted with a non-automatic centre
coupling of the " Cowhead " type.
2.—The coupling heads act both as a coupling and a buffer—there being
no side buffers on the vehicles.
3.—In coupling the shunter, or man engaged in the work, must not under
any circumstances stand between the coaches.
In coupling electric parcels motor vans to ordinary railway vehicles the
shunters must under no circumstances stand between the vehicles nor couple
them together until they come to rest.
, 4.--To CO uple.—A screw coupling must be in one only of the two heads
about to be joined together, and the pin must be out of the other head. The
shunter, taking up a position in the gangway of a carriage, must hold up the
end of the screw coupling until the vehicles are pushed together, the end
must then be dropped and the remaining pin pushed through the head and
the link, care being taken to see that both pins are far enough through to
ensure that the drop-end falls down to prevent pin from working out. •
The coupling must then be screwed up tightly, by means of the bar
provided for that purpose, and when tight, the screw must be in such a
position that the bar drops down through a hole in the centre of the plain
portion of the screw and through a hole in the coupling head, thus securing
the coupling from becoming slack.
The brake pipes may then be connected in the usual way, and the electrical
connections, as provided for in Rule Book for electric working.
Uricouple.—Disconnect brake pipes and electrical connections and
slacken the screw sufficiently to withdraw one pin. After taking out one
pin the coaches may be drawn apart.
6.—Spare screw couplings must be placed in the boxes in gangways
provided for that purpose and must not be left lying on the floor.
7.—Care must be exercised in shunting this stock fitted with " Cowhead "
couplings only. They must not be shunted against ordinary vehicles or
against buffer stops which are unprovided with a centre buffing block.
UPLING OF 'WAGONS TO TENDERS OR ENGINE'S.
General Rules 23 and 206 (a).
In coupling wagons to tenders, Or, where engines are running tender
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fi must be made use of, and not the wagon coupling, , except in cases where
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couplings are fitted on the tenders or engines.
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