Question for any railway people

[paddy]

What are these white slider things trackside at stations?

I've wondered for years.

 

[Lysander]

They turn the trains on and off.

 

[Efour]

mmm toilet roil

 

[scorza]

The slidy things are rails mate, the trains run on them.

 

[OhEsEcks]

Is this it near the bottom of the page?

http://www.railsigns.co.uk/info/other1/other1.html

 

[Spook187]

They are datum plates.

To give info on cant of running rails, the up or down lines, design levels.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

The slidy things are rails mate, the trains run on them.

 

[paddy]

They are datum plates.

To give info on cant of running rails, the up or down lines, design levels.

Is this it near the bottom of the page?
http://www.railsigns.co.uk/info/other1/other1.html

That's them. Thanks

The slidy things are rails mate, the trains run on them.

I love this place

 

[airwave99]

The slidy things are rails mate, the trains run on them.

Sometimes they even run on them according to a timetable. Apart from when you really need to get to somewhere on time.

 

[pitchfork]

Secret government codes. Move along citzen.

 

[Gilly]

The slidy things are rails mate, the trains run on them.

 

[Cosimo]

They are datum plates.

To give info on cant of running rails, the up or down lines, design levels.

A nice new one:

http://www.terram.com/products/signs-and-markers/railway-datum-gauge-sign.html

 

[2StepSteve]

They are volume controls. They turn up and down the choo choo noises of the choo choos.

 

[MattHep]

9 times out of 10 they are not correct!