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80 G e n e r a l Irtstnictiorts.—C ontinved
Great Western Passenger Stock Out-of-Gauge.—Continued.
In the event of G.W. stock not exceeding the above dimensions, and
suitably fitted as regards the brake for working forward, coming to hand
for a station on the Main Line between York and Berwick, via Team
Valley, or via Leamside, it may be sent forward if this would be more
convenient to the station working than transhipping the contents into.
N.E. stock, such vehicles, however, must be specially wired forward to
the Junction and Terminal Stations concerned.
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Some specially altered G.W. stock measuring 56 ft. over headstockS and
'9 ft. 0.1 in. over handles, is working in the Aberdeen—Penzance service. In
the event of the Main line being blocked, such stock may be worked over
the alternative routes authorised for Out-of-Gauge L. & Y. stock (see pages
78-79), or for East Coast trains (Pamphlet H. 4967, dated 4th July, 1921).
4.—G.W. stock exceeding the dimensions set out in paragraph 3 must
not be allowed to work on any section of the N.E. system and should
such stock be inadvertently sent, it must be stopped at the handing-over
junction.
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G.W. stock shews on the sole-bar the width over body and the length
over buffers. In the case of brakes, the width shewn is the width over
guards' duckets, which, of course, covers the width over the handles ; in
the case of carriages, the width of the handles will require to be added.
to the body width shewn on the sole bar. ( B . 5(i).
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L. 84 S.W. PASSENGER STOCK OUT OF GAUGE.
(General Rule, 115.)
L. & S.W. Carriage Stock (56 ft. in length over headstocks and 9 ft. 2 in
in width over handles) is working daily in the Newcastle—Bournemouth
service.
In the event of the Main line being blocked, the trains on which the
L. & S.W. stock works should be diverted to one of the alternative routes
authorised for L. & Y. Passenger Stock out of gauge (see pages 78-79).
(B. 56).
WORKING OF EMPTY COACHING STOCK TRAINS BETWEEN GATES
HEAD (GREENSFIELD JUNCTION) AND DUNSTON, AND BETWEEN
NEWCASTLE CENTRAL AND SCOTSWOOD BRIDGE SIDINGS.
General Rule 115.
When N.E. Empty Coaching Stock trains are worked between Scotswood
Bridge Sidings and Newcastle Central, via Elswick, they must always travel
on the Passenger lines between No. 3 Box (from the points of the through
roads leading from Goods to Passenger lines and vice versa, west of the
box) and Forth Junction.
Two Empty Coaching Stock trains must not be allowed to pass each other
on the through roads at King Edward Bridge Junction between the Main.
(Team Valley) lines to and from Gateshead and the Dunston lines.
(B. 424)...