What is a wagon tippler?

Question

a wagon tippler is used to unload the wagons from broad gauge railways...plz if u knw d basic idea or how it worsk..ans me

Answer 1

I am only making a guess here but in the 'States there is a device that unloads coal cars (wagons) by rolling them over one at a time.

The cars have couplers that allow them to roll over, and a huge table has arms that grab each car and slowly rolls it clear over to unload it.

By the name I am thinking you might be referring to something of this sort.

Just a guess.  

Answer 2

Wagon tipplers weren't only used on the GW broad gauge, there were many on the standard gauge railways too, mostly at major loco depots. This was all part of the later steam era when coal was still the primary fuel but needed to be handled quickly and with less labour. The tippler was a rotatable frame or cradle with rails along the bottom onto which a truck of coal could be run. The cradle was then turned over to quickly empty the truck onto a stockpile from which the coal could then be loaded into the tenders of the smaller locomotives. Some mainline express engines had tenders large enough to accept whole truck loads of coal and these could be loaded direct from the tippler.

Answer 3

This is just a guess but I think it is someone that use to drink heavily and they quit (known as being on the wagon) then they fell off the wagon (they started drinking again). Then thay started trying to get everyone else to fall off. A wagon tippler.