Swanage Weighbridge Office

Weighbridge removed in 1938?

Drawings

40’:1”

Actual 1.196”=50’=600”

Length 0.398 x 600 / 1.196 = 199.6655 ~ 22 bricks=197.5”

Width 0.313 x 600 / 1.196 = 157.0234 ~ 17.5 bricks=153+4”

This looks too big.

Inside lines from templot=>

Length 46.67 / 3 x 12 = 186.68” ~ 21 bricks = 188.5” = 47.125mm

Width 17.5 bricks = 157” => 39.25mm

16.5 bricks = 148” => 37mm

16 bricks = 143.5” => 35.875mm

Photos

BRJ 31 Spring 1990 1950s p73 Brick count?

Scan 1200 8bit greyscale no filter

Width 9.5 + 4 (door) + 2 = 15.5 bricks

Steam into Swanage p77

Swanage Railway in Colour p36

Red brick, green door, yellow barge boards,slate roof?

Door in Wareham end, nothing on back except down pipe

Door lintel 13 bricks - on end or one above another?

13 bricks @ 2.5” = 32.5”

12 courses @ 0.5” = 6”

=> aperture 38.5” (5.55mm)

To right 38.5x4.6/5.55=32”

3 brick x 9 + 0.5 brick 4.25 = 31.25

Height 38.5x13.88/5.55=96.28”=8’=>32 bricks

Counting looks more like 24 = 6’

Railway World Special The Swanage Branch p35,45,back

2 windows in front+downpipe

Branch Lines of the Southern Railway Volume One p122

2 windows facing signal box – LSWR days

Branch Line to Swanage

Pl85 13/09/26

Pl94 07/07/63 door wall

Pl88 1938 2 windows head on

proportions?

Window wall

mm 6.46+5.6+2.42+5.6+6.46=26.54

bricks 5.35+4.64+2+4.64+5.35=22

say 5.5+4.5+2+4.5+5.5=22

Reducing to 21 bricks=>

Say 5+4.5+2+4.5+5=21

pl111 1968 2 windows facing signal box

proportions?

Swanage 125 Years of Railways p103

Looks like door open and window in end or is it one facing SB?

Swanage Railway Album pl77

Door end

The Changing Railway Scene Southern Region Half-Title Page

The Swanage Branch in Colour

p82 Window in Swanage end

p64,72, 109 Wareham end

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