Olive_Green1923 Posted Monday at 09:50 Share Posted Monday at 09:50 I'm looking to include a loading ramp / platform for lowmac wagons on my ex-LSWR / LBSCR layout so that agricultural machinery can be loaded / unloaded. However, I'm struggling to find any photos of what these looked like. A Google search just throws up photos of lowmac wagons in isolation, and I can't seem to find anything in my book collection. If anyone has any photos of them in model form or real life then this would be most helpful. I'm not sure if there is any nuance or specific design style required for the territory I am modelling? Many thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Isherwood Posted Monday at 10:18 RMweb Premium Share Posted Monday at 10:18 25 minutes ago, Olive_Green1923 said: I'm looking to include a loading ramp / platform for lowmac wagons on my ex-LSWR / LBSCR layout so that agricultural machinery can be loaded / unloaded. However, I'm struggling to find any photos of what these looked like. A Google search just throws up photos of lowmac wagons in isolation, and I can't seem to find anything in my book collection. If anyone has any photos of them in model form or real life then this would be most helpful. I'm not sure if there is any nuance or specific design style required for the territory I am modelling? Many thanks. Usually a dead-end siding butting up to a raised surface - sometimes a bay platform - with a simple timber beam bufferstop. John Isherwood. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium fulton Posted Monday at 10:50 RMweb Premium Share Posted Monday at 10:50 Simple end dock. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted Monday at 13:29 RMweb Gold Share Posted Monday at 13:29 Sometimes just a pile of sleepers or random lumps of wood placed at the side of the well and machinery driven/dragged/pulled on. Mike. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted Monday at 13:31 RMweb Gold Share Posted Monday at 13:31 3 hours ago, John Isherwood said: Usually a dead-end siding butting up to a raised surface - sometimes a bay platform - with a simple timber beam bufferstop. John Isherwood. Whilst I don't about this wagon personally, but the flat smooth oblong panel just behind the buffers on some lowmac wagons was a lift out steel bridging plate for just such a situation. Mike. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Izzy Posted Monday at 14:34 RMweb Premium Share Posted Monday at 14:34 Generally where end docks and loading banks were provided they were built at a greater height than passenger platforms to assist with both side and end loading. Many end loading docks had pairs of hinged metal plates which folded over where the buffers were to span the distance between the dock and the deck of the wagon. Bob 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted Monday at 15:55 Share Posted Monday at 15:55 1 hour ago, Izzy said: ... built at a greater height than passenger platforms ... Machinery can't comprehend "MIND THE GAP*" however loud you shout. * or STEP 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olive_Green1923 Posted Monday at 17:27 Author Share Posted Monday at 17:27 Armed with the more accurate lingo of "end loading dock", Google has provided some better results (links embedded within the pictures): Thanks all. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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