Gauntlet track

Daft suggestion number 1234etc.

Maybe it's just an alternate method of laying a section between passing loops without having to resort to a turnout.

If you get my drift.
 
They use(d) gauntlet tracks on bridges on some mainlines. Less expense to make a single track bridge than a double track one. I remember seeing a picture of the first swing bridge at St Olaves (or maybe Haddiscoe) on the Beccles - Yarmouth mainline showing interlaced track as it crossed the bridge. I think it's in one of my GERS magazines (unfortunately no index).

Rik
 
The swing bridge at Selby had interlaced tracks. The 4 tracks were gauntleted over the bridge & then split into 4 again. This disappeared when the diversion was opened to avoid mining subsidence & the Selby line was reduced to 2 tracks.
 
For more info, including interlaced tram tracks at Mitcham and in Nottingham, see here....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauntlet_track
 
This is a video frame, hence a little soft focus.
Interlaced track in Amsterdam.
The rails are laid close together, so that the edge of one forms the groove of the other:-
 

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Gizzy said:
For more info, including interlaced tram tracks at Mitcham and in Nottingham, see here....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauntlet_track
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Yup Gizzy, Mitcham is the place I was thinking of. I also think there is a funny bit just after Church Street Station where the Track Splits for Winbledon and goes Right to come back into Town.

Yes just found it:-

http://www.thetrams.co.uk/croydon/pictures/002182

JonD
 
I'd give a date for the photo of around mid to late 1950s (from the vehicles present) if it's any help.

Perhaps there was a pub in the section where the dray would be unloading?
 
bobg said:
I'd give a date for the photo of around mid to late 1950s (from the vehicles present) if it's any help.
Perhaps there was a pub in the section where the dray would be unloading?
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Correct, Bob.
There are pubs either side of the tram.
I have tended to believe it was a delivery area.
The line closed in 1953, when I was 5 yrs old. Pubs are still there.
The pic I posted of Amsterdam has a similar delivery point.
 
musket the dog said:
Could be to allow something to stop on the side of the road and the trams to still pass? Not sure what that would be though, most likely not a bus I guess.

Edit: Never mind, just seen the bus in the first picture of it ::)
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A bus stop is reasonable perhaps if it was a separate bus company from the tram company? Something they had to provide an unrestricted path to avoid.
 
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