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What are these for!? (Mod Note: Not Datum Plates)
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driver9000
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To catch a derailed train reducing the risk of it going over the edge of the bridge.
Thanks. Makes sense as both stretch the full length of the bridge.
edwin_m
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Known as guard rails, not the same thing as check rails.
I'm not sure why the running-off end in the foreground has a taper and a wooden wedge that look like they are to reduce the risk of an already-derailed train going the wrong side of the guard rails, but the running-on end in the background doesn't.
I'm not sure why the running-off end in the foreground has a taper and a wooden wedge that look like they are to reduce the risk of an already-derailed train going the wrong side of the guard rails, but the running-on end in the background doesn't.
swt_passenger
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I see one of those pesky Datum Plates has still sneaked into the background though... 
Warwick
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It's to fend off anything hanging down which may cause problems by hooking on to the exposed end of the guard rail.
Actually I don't really know but I'm guessing that it's something like that.
Isn't it on the wrong end of the guard rail then?
pdeaves
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Might the 'wedge', possibly, be to prevent the guard rails moving along their length?
kentuckytony
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HAh Hah! was thinking the same.I see one of those pesky Datum Plates has still sneaked into the background though...
Llanigraham
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Not if the line is bi-directional.
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