Re: A Couple Questions About Spikes

Excellent Chris - that’s them for sure. Plus I got an answer from a Wales friend. Over there, that is their everyday spike for flat bottom rail. They don’t use our oval ones, so what’s common there is rare here, and vice versa.

That means those spikes of mine definitely came from the UK, along with the rail they fastened. It’s not every day you can exactly date spikes, but they can now be positively dated as being original to those railways (1879 & 1870).

And I got a geography lesson. Barrow Steel was in Barrow-in-Furness which is in Cumbria, England - not Wales.

Cheers,
Ralph



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