Posted at 22:31:42 Wed 19 Mar 2014
Hi RDS
I'll be sensible - I won't say it's something you find in a pot in the greenhouse!!
Very basically after a loco has it's fire cleaned the ash is shovelled into a small narrow gauge wagon which is in the pit. When the job is done
it is then propelled (probably handraulically)to the Ash Plant. It is then hoisted and emptied into the tower and when sufficient has accumulated it is unloaded into wagons which have been placed underneath. Very much like the cenotaph type of coal tower.
As
far as I recall the last surviving Ash Plant, like the last Coal Tower, is at Carnforth.
This is a general outline, it's quite likely LC&DR, when he reads this, will post chapter and verse and make this contribution look very small!!
Posted 22:31:42 Wed 19 Mar 2014
