Bullhead rail chairs were used as PS Waverley ballast – but steamer faces far weightier issue
May 10, 2022
1 minute
By Hugh Dougherty
NGINEERS and volunteers working on ’s winter maintenance schedule removed hull ballast for inspection and discovered that thrifty sailors had used British Rail standard bullhead rail chairs as weights in the 1950s, when the steamer
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