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lanes with metal rails/kerbs

PostPosted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:41 pm
by toomse
thought I'd post up some of my collection of metal rails/kerbs from around the city centre

Bath Lane/Hope Street
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Bath Lane/West Campbell Street
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Bothwell Lane/West Campbell Street
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left hand side of lane viewing west
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National Bank Lane
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Renfield Lane/Hope Street
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Renfield Lane/Renfield Street
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Renfield Lane/West Nile Street
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Sauchiehall Lane/Hope Street
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Sauchiehall Lane/West Nile Street
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South Exchange Court
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St Marys Lane
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St Vincent Lane/Wellington Street
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outside Treasure Island Hope Street
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lane on Buchanan Street at Argyle Arcade
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same lane viewing from Queen Street
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Waterloo Lane
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Wellington Lane - Sauchiehall Street to Hope Street
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West George Lane/West Campbell Street
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West George Lane - Renfield Street to West Nile Street
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West Regent Lane/Hope Street
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19 Queen Street
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74 Brunswick Street
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Re: lanes with metal rails/kerbs

PostPosted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:48 pm
by Ronnie
Thanks, toomse
Anyone know who made these, what varieties there were, and if they had different purposes?

Re: lanes with metal rails/kerbs

PostPosted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:06 pm
by Icecube
The old word 'Shuck' comes to mind, drainage? if the metal channels had been a bit closer together I might have thought they were to enable easier passage of carts and some in the photos look as if they were but others don't.

Re: lanes with metal rails/kerbs

PostPosted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:11 pm
by scaryman2u
I read somewhere (probably here) that they prevent the carts from riding up on the pavements :)

Re: lanes with metal rails/kerbs

PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:30 pm
by Ronnie
Thanks, but there are clearly different styles of metal bits here - some to keep carts off the pavement, some to pretect the kerb edge, and some perhaps to guide carts along a particular route. So I don't think there is one answer, like "drainage" or "keeping carts off the pavements". Anybody know any guides to these things? Any roads experts here?

Re: lanes with metal rails/kerbs

PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:53 pm
by toomse
Bothwell Lane/Blythswood Street

wasn’t so much the metal rail that caught my attention here but the sound of gushing air from about 10m away
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most excellent set of metal grilles here, both are about 4m in depth, look like they’re connected by a passageway and the air is positively roaring out!
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Nice shot of one of the grilles with a metal rail in the foreground. This interlocking rail design is quite a common feature around town. I’ve tried googling for info on metal rails like Ronnie suggests but without the correct terminology I’ve so far been unsuccessful.
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total bummer as access to inspect below the grilles looks like it’s via 82 Blythswood Street which is dubbed up
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Re: lanes with metal rails/kerbs

PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:29 pm
by Fossil
The sets were used to keep the carts from dislodging their cargo. It also stopped the granite sets from being chipped and damaged.

Fossil

Re: lanes with metal rails/kerbs

PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:32 pm
by Ronnie
Fossil wrote:The sets were used to keep the carts from dislodging their cargo. It also stopped the granite sets from being chipped and damaged.

Fossil


Which ones are the sets? There seems to have been a variety of designs.

Re: lanes with metal rails/kerbs

PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:29 pm
by toomse
Well access to below the Bothwell Lane grilles was easier than expected via 95 Bothwell Street
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here’s what all the noise is coming from
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behind this fan is directly below the east side grille
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to gain access to the west side grille you have to crawl through this small wooden door/vent thingy
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think I’ll need to employ a young acolyte as I wasn’t for going in there today……anyway
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Re: lanes with metal rails/kerbs

PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:39 pm
by Icecube
Toomse you are a true commando, well done. Does HG have a bail money fund? ::):

Re: lanes with metal rails/kerbs

PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:01 pm
by Josef
We used it all up in The Perry Incident at the second-last drinks night.

I confess to being slightly feart to ask precisely how he gains access to these places, but I suppose what we don't know won't hurt us...

Re: lanes with metal rails/kerbs

PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:14 pm
by Icecube
Josef wrote:We used it all up in The Perry Incident at the second-last drinks night.

I confess to being slightly feart to ask precisely how he gains access to these places, but I suppose what we don't know won't hurt us...



Ah the infamous 'Perry Incident' - sounds like my kind of night ::):

My theory - and its only a theory at this stage - is that he walks through the front door, Michael Caine style. :D

Re: lanes with metal rails/kerbs

PostPosted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:06 pm
by Mori
Toomse you are gona end up walking through a timewarp in to the Grahamston village one of these days.

Get photies if you do. ::):


My assesment of your gaining access to the underworld:
I reckon as well as having the universal skeleton key set you have a City Council badge kit you have made up that scares everyone in officialdom :D