Means for Facilitating the Transfer of Goods between Railways of Different Gauges.
Year: 1895

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Date of Application, 30th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 28th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 9th Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Means for Facilitating the Transfer of Goods between Railways of
Different Gauges.
, ROBERT HENRY LIVESEY, of Stranolar, in the County of Donegal, Secretary
and General Manager of the Donegal Railway Company, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
According to this invention the bodies of the wagons are made separate from
the under frames and wheels and at junctions between railways of different gauges
a special arrangement of sidings is adopted so that the wagon bodies can be
readily removed from one under frame to another.
Fixed beneath the bodies are rails adapted to run on rollers in grooved tracks
on the under frames so that if two under frames, one carrying a body and the
other not, be placed end to end the body can be pushed from one under frame to
the other whether the latter are of the same or different gauges.
At points where the transfer from one gauge to another is to take place four
pairs of lines, two of each gauge, run radially to a turntable carrying lines of both
Assuming
gauges and at such points an empty underframe of each gauge is kept.
it is desired to transfer the freight of a broad gauge train to a narrow gauge
train and the freight of the latter to the broad gauge train the following
procedure is adopted: An empty truck (say a broad gauge one) is ruu onto the
turntable which is then turned into a line with the narrow gauge train and the
body of the end truck of the latter is pushed onto it. The turntable is then turned
to face the empty broad gauge line and the truck is run off. The turntable is
turned back to face the narrow gauge train and the end empty underframe of the
latter is run on and receives the body of the end broad gauge truck and is then
run on to the empty narrow gauge line in a similar manner such operations
continuing until the freight of both trains has been transferred.
Dated this 20th day of January 1895
Means for Facilitating the Transfer of Goods between Railways of
Different Gauges.
I, ROBERT HENRY LIVESEY, of Stranolar, in the County of Donegal,
Secretary and General Manager of the Donegal Railway Company, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
According to this invention the bodies of the wagons are made separate from
the under frames and wheels and at junctions between railways of different gauges
a special arrangement of sidings is adopted so that the wagon bodies can be
readily removed from one underframe to another.

page_text: Fixed beneath the bodies are rails adapted to run on rollers in grooved tracks
on the under frames so that if two under frames, one carrying a body and the
other not, be placed end to end the body can be pushed from one under frame to
the other whether the latter are of the same or different gauges.
At points where the transfer from one gauge to another is to take place four
pairs of lines, two of each gauge, run radially to a turntable carrying lines of
both gauges and at such points an empty underframe of each gauge is kept.
Assuming it is desired to transfer the freight of a broad gauge train to a narrow
gauge train and the freight of the latter to the broad gauge train the following
procedure is adopted :-An empty truck (say a broad gauge one) is run onto the
turntable which is then turned into a line with the narrow gauge train and the
body of the end truck of the latter is pushed onto it. The turntable is then
turned to face the empty broad gauge line and the truck is run off. The turntable
is turned back to face the narrow gauge train and the end empty underframe of
the latter is run on and receives the body of the end broad gauge truck and is
then run on to the empty narrow gauge line in a similar manner such operations
continuing until the freight of both trains has been transferred.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side elevation showing a truck body in process of being transferred
from a narrow to a broad gauge underframe.
Figure 2 is a similar view showing the operation completed.
Figure 3 is a plan and Figure 4 a vertical section of the turntable employed.
a is the truck body, the broad gauge underframe, e the narrow gauge under-
frame, the broad gauge rails, and c¹ the narrow gauge rails.
Figures 5 and 6 are sectional end elevations of the truck body on a broad and
narrow gauge underframe respectively and Figures 7 and 8 are similar detailed
views to a larger scale showing the method of fixing the rollers d and rails e.
To secure the body a in its position four strong angle iron stanchions fare fixed
at one end of the underframe, on each of which is rivetted an iron jaw g. Eyes h
to correspond are bolted on the body and securing pins pass through the two.
At the open end of the frame over which the body slides, are arranged four
eyes and corresponding eyes k on the body and fixing pins as at the fixed end.
This ensures the body being held perfectly rigid during shunting operations.
In the case of a very narrow gauge such as 2 feet instead of the bodies being
put end ways on to the broad gauge underframe, they are put on the latter at right
angles as shown in Figures 9, 10, and 11, so that three or four narrow gauge
bodies can be run upon the one underframe.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
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1. The trucks having their bodies separable from the underframes substantially
as described.
2. The combination with a turntable suitable both for broad and narrow gauge
vehicles of two pairs of broad gauge and two pairs of narrow gauge rails leading
to it substantially as described.
Dated this 28th day of October 1895.
R. H. LIVESEY.