This is the McK&H frame at Corris - always miscaptioned as Machynlleth West - note the Y shaped pieces on levers 1 and 8. At the time of this photograph (12th August 1935) levers 5 and 8 were spare, and lever 1 was in use, but not as a Distant lever [1]
Now have a look at the following two photographs -you can just about match up the top and bottom halves of the original photograph:
Note that lever 8 in the lowest picture is reversed, and has, if you look carefully one of the Y shaped things. I wonder if these are foot pedals, if you look at the middle picture both levers 1 and 8 do not have catch-handle knuckles. [1.1]
Has anyone else come across other McK&H frames of a similar pattern without catch-handles and these foot pedals, please? Particularly as seems likely that at least in the case of the bebrambled frame that the distant levers were actually used as distants.
[1] and [1.1] I don't yet want to get into a discussion about Corris Railway signalling; as properly it is a subject for another thread. However, suffice to cover anyone's thirst for information, the frame in the top photograph is at Corris, and the lower two are almost certainly (99.9%) of Maespoeth frame, in the weeds at Machynlleth between the East and West signalboxes, after the GW <spit> replaced the 8 lever frame at Maespoeth with a two lever ground frame, covering only the points into the loco shed, rather than a distant and home in either direction and also the junction points for the Upper Corris tramway.
