Slip Coaches

Later than 1890 I know but I recall that the Cornish Riviera slipped a coach for Westbury before Heywood Road Junction right through to the late 1950s. This was done at speed - in the seventies. (I can point you to a log where the recorded speed before the slip was 79 mph). The Riviera continued on the avoiding line and the single coach was rerouted at Heywood into Westbury. Whilst it's a pretty obvious comment I think that in this case the coach would have been slipped a way back from the Junction and at the box, that was in view of the Junction itself, it would not have been a particularly difficult job to switch the points. This would have been controlled by a signal that would have had to be pulled off to tell the operator of the slip coach that the road had been set for Westbury. It was then just a matter of continuing to take advantage of the falling grade to bring the coach into the station.