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GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Bordesley Station: gwrbg2272
A photograph from Mr G Buckeley's book on Mechanical
Appliances for Handling Railway Traffic. It shows a comprehensive Overhead
Runway System installed in a Goods Shed. It is known that Messrs Herbert Morris
of Loughborough supplied the Overhead Runway System for the warehouse at
Bordesley and from the description in the GWR Magazine articles it is expected
that the arrangement there would be similar to the one in this photograph.
On either side of the central runway there are travelling
runway bridges supported by pairs of parallel steel joist tracks running the
length of the shed. These travelling runway bridges can transverse the bays on
each side of the shed independent of the main runway system and either be
operated independently or be linked via any of the stub junctions to the main
runway. They enable the lifting hoist trolley to be positioned directly over
any load to be lifted, resulting in safer operation and more efficient use of
the storage areas. The construction principle is the same as a travelling
crane, but automatic stops are incorporated to prevent hoist trolleys
overrunning when the travelling runway bridges are not aligned with one of the
stub junctions of the main runway system.
Robert Ferris
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