Buffer Stop Rating Bot

Does what it says on the tin. Tag this account or tweet #RateMyBuffers for @GarethDennis to rate your end-of-track devices. Worry not: your entry is in a queue!

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

Sadly these are no longer up to much snuff, but there's still a robustness to them that puts them a bit above the usual bullhead launchers!

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#RateMyBuffers

[Gemma @PompeyDriver]

Poshest buffers I ever did see!

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

We don't need to say it.

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#RateMyBuffers

[Hunslet the Bear🐻 @HunsletTheBear]

"Oh dear" said Hunslet.

Someone will be getting a please explain letter for this.

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

Even a gronk can get launched skywards by the right bad buffer stop.

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[Chris Sykes @N_Amberfield]

On a number of occasions Sheffield Parkway played host to locomotives running away from Tinsley TMD. This ensemble piece, which did a runner during 1978, gained sufficient momentum to push 08223 almost onto the carriageway itself.

#ShunterSunday

📸 Keith Proctor

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

Genuinely unsure which of these end of track devices is least effective... At least the gate won't launch a train skywards!

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[Bennybizzle @Bennybizzle1]

How about a @SignaloftheDay and @RateMyBuffers double bill? Some railway infrastructure that is rarely photographed I'd imagine both images are taken from a warehouse just outside Dagenham dock station

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

This will still disintegrate on contact.

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[Daniel @adelantedani]

@RateMyBuffers ‘Modernising Maintenance’ at Chester with the help of cable ties

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

If your train is actually striking a fixed buffer stop then it probably should have been a sliding buffer stop. And the dummy coupler doesn't appear to have engaged, either.

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[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

A shame about the lack of dummy couplers!

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#RateMyBuffers

[Richard Long @rlonguk]

My new book ‘Upgrading the Isle of Wight’s Railway’ will be published by @penswordbooks next month and is currently available to preorder for just £18.75. (Full RRP is £25.00).

https://t.co/0Fv6Qo2D3N

#IslandLine #IsleofWight #RydeRail #AllChangeAtRyde

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

WHEEEEEEEEEE!

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[Noel Dolphin @NoelDolphin]

One for #RateMyBuffers - I call this the ski slope...

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

I feel sorry for the signaller.

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[driverbod @driverbod125]

Something for everyone here, @SignaloftheDay and @RateMyBuffers too!

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

It's a strip of duct tape.

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[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

Lurking.

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[BRITISH History - On This Day @BritishHistorym]

The Blackfriars pub in London 1980s.

Can you name the three cars?

#blackfriarspub #london #britishhistory

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

Prove that this is attached to the ground.

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[Still Punished Charlie Lightning @cvlwolf]

@RateMyBuffers @GarethDennis @who_shot_jgr

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

Sand trap?

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[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

Absolutely baffling contraption.

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[Chris H @Chris_Hrrsn89]

@RateMyBuffers Since in NYC and the buffers at World Trade centre on the subway.

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

What's good is that these buffer stops have not been improved at all since this little incident...

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[A Love of Old Trains and Stations @TrainStations23]

"The train now approaching Platform 12..."

York Station on the morning of August 4, 1958, when the Sunderland to York train overran the buffer stops and mounted the platform and tore into the tobacco kiosk.

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

Splash.

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[Adrian Pullen @adipullenLNER]

Wonderful old Photograph of a steam engine on LYMINGTON PIER with that lovely view down the river towards the SOLENT and the I.O.W. What’s not to like .
📸 PHIL WATERFIELD

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

This buffer stop looks designed to trigger everything to collapse all at once, like a game of mousetrap.

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[SpammyBobSmith @SpammyBobSmith]

My favourite stop block at work, in a mill that makes Justin Roczniak's favourite engineered wood product, OSB. The tank car contains methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, one of the things you can make out of the poison gas from Bhopal. @GarethDennis @RateMyBuffers

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

Certainly substantial, with little evidence that an overrun is possible.

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[Tatsuya Tanaka 田中達也 @tanaka_tatsuya]

交通の基盤

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

Missing dummy coupler isn't great, but good track materials and decent occupancy for the traffic.

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#RateMyBuffers

[@garethaethwy.bsky.social @garethaethwy]

Not sure if I’ve submitted this before but have some early morning Holyhead buffer action… #RateMyBuffer @RateMyBuffers @GarethDennis

[Buffer Stop Rating Bot @RateMyBuffers]

The station building is the buffer stop.

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[𝑲𝒐𝒔𝒎𝒐 @Kosmo100]

@RateMyBuffers