MARINE WORKSHOPS

Repair shop for tractor units

By Stephen Morris

Some pictures taken during the Sea Containers era when the Marine Workshops were being used for maintenance of the tractor units used for pulling the trailers left on the quayside onto the ferries for trans-shipment across to Dieppe. 

Victorian equipment mounted overhead looking as though drive belts were still being used connected to the pulley wheels.  This was at the time the workshops were being used for maintenance and repairs of the road vehicles.

The railway lines were still in evidence for the mobile crane. Also can be seen the former steam sub-shed for the 0-6-0 Terriers that ran across the bridge to the breakwater in bygone days.

Quite a contrast to the present use as a University Technical College! 

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This page was added by Stephen Morris on 17/12/2017.
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At one time, all of the machinery would have been driven by overhead gear but, in recent times, just this short section remained which drove a shearing machine in the boilermakers' shop.  This was powered by a DC motor and, even in the late-1980s, one lathe, a radial drill and a grindstone were also DC powered.

The Jones diesel-mechanical crane on the quayside was ex-Army, reputedly from the Suez Canal.  When it was delivered, charge-hand Fred Hart had to help unload it, finding out fairly quickly how everything worked. When the railway driving instructors came down to see it, it was Fred who showed them how it all went.  Thereafter, Fred wasn't allowed to operate it as he hadn't been "passed out" on it!

Also visible on the quayside is the wire-runners' boat "Lewinna", more often referred to as "HMS Clog"; it spent not so much time in the water as having water in it.

By Bruce Macphee
On 29/12/2017

My Dad Bill Duff worked to he Newhaven port. I'm sure he has photo's of that time.

By Christine Duff
On 30/12/2017
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