Re: Extra rail in the four foot

In article <drofno$gd3$1$830fa7a5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Skinner
<skinnner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A friend has just shown me a photo of the track crossing the Tees
> viaduct at Yarm. Within the four foot eight and a half space there are
> two more rails, about two feet apart, fixed as if running rails
> (clearly not!) over the viaduct. They end roughly at the ends of the
> viaduct. What are they for?

> One sees this from time to time. They are not check rails, they are far
> too far away from the running rail for that.

They are safety rails. They try to prevent a derailed vehicle coming into
contact with the viaduct walls.

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David Wild using RISC OS on broadband
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