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Tony Beckwith of Ribblehead kindly wheeled this along to the water tower today to add to the ambience. As you see it is a North Eastern Railway item. Tony liberated it from York Carriage works, where he used to work. It was one of a pair. It is precisely 2 feet in diameter and is very heavy. Unlikely therefore that it was a wheel from a platform hand cart. There is no key-way inside the hub so it was meant to rotate freely on a shaft. I wonder if the pair of wheels and their axle were for internal use at the carriage works for moving heavy components around the place.Anybody have other ideas?
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