RA 8003 RARE G.W.R. WOOD CASED WATER TANK LEVEL INDICATOR. ship-zone-d works no 1603 and built

works no 1603 and built in 1912 and worked at the Hafod Colliery

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A  nice marked Southern Railway 3 X 2" diameter wheel signal wire "fixed" frame pulley in good ex lineside condition

RA 8003 RARE G.W.R. WOOD CASED WATER TANK LEVEL INDICATOR. ship-zone-d works no 1603 and builtThese rare Great Western Railway water tank level indicators are very scarce indeed, used in signal boxes to indicate to the signalman the lever of water in the large elevated tanks which supplied a number of water cranes around the station site such as Kemble or Pilning High Level. At Pilning for example water was pumped into the tank from a nearby Rhine (drainage ditch), when the water level was low a bell would ring in the box and the indicator