15ch ?? Rail bridge?
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Puddy_Tat
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yes. the railway tend to measure things in miles and chains (80 chains = 1 mile)
souljacker
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No, it's a chain. That bridge is 7 miles and 15 chains down the line.
Puddy_Tat
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not out (after third umpire review).
it would appear to be the bridge at penge west station
LBW in this context seems to be the line from London Bridge to Windmill Bridge Junction
Windmill Bridge is near Croydon.
Callie
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Puddy_Tat
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souljacker
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That sign is for a bridge. As Puddy_Tat has said, specifically the Penge West Station Footbridge. The sign states that this bridge is 7 miles and 15 chains down line from where the line originates (which I'm guessing is London bridge). A chain is 22 yards (66 feet). Railways still use the chain as a unit mainly because they always have.
Elpenor
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And the width of the popping crease is equivalent to standard gauge
Starting to feel like a conspiracy
Callie
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No! 7 miles and 15 chain chain chains from over there
Callie
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You leave my popping crease out of thisAnd the width of the popping crease is equivalent to standard gauge
Starting to feel like a conspiracy
souljacker
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Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Motorways are measured in metres/km, but this is still referred to as ‘chainage’, it’s the usual term for any linear measurement of things like this. On motorways it gets a bit confusing because chainage on one carriageway might be different to the other side since one will be longer around curves than another, or might deviate around a farm or something like that.
Having worked on motorway drawings I was never sure where the exact reference was, whether taken from centreline of carriageway or from one of the edges, and this has likely been mucked about by widening schemes. We just used to get the chainage markers on an imported layer into the drawing from the HA and took their word for it!
Having worked on motorway drawings I was never sure where the exact reference was, whether taken from centreline of carriageway or from one of the edges, and this has likely been mucked about by widening schemes. We just used to get the chainage markers on an imported layer into the drawing from the HA and took their word for it!
