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Hi everyone,

 

Our Onllwyn Colliery internal user pack of HUOs are now available for pre-order on our site. 

 

The Onllwyn Colliery pack features three individually numbered models in their private owner livery of dark grey. They were used after their retirement from BR service in their open cast mine near Port Talbot in Wales, where they were deployed on an internal railway system under the stewardship of NCB Opencast Executive. These remained in service on the private railway with 16 and 21-ton former BR stock until the mid-1990s under Celtic Energy ownership.
 
This pack is strictly limited to 250 pieces and is the perfect addition to industrial based model railways and are the perfect companion for the wide array of industrial motive power that has been released recently.
 
These are due for delivery in early September alongside the TOPS livery HUOs and feature the same high specification for the price of £59.95. Demand is expected to be high for these as we have received plenty of requests for them! 
 
 
Cheers,
 
Fran
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Onllwyn isn't really near anywhere, being at the upper end of the Swansea valley, at the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park. I spent quite a lot of time there in the 1960s, when my father's firm was modifying the hoppers on the loading screens to accommodate 21t hoppers for 'House Coal Concentration' traffic. To give you some idea of how isolated and windblown the place is, nearby Colbren was used to represent the Veldt in the film 'Young Winston'.

The site would make an interesting model, being part of the old Onllwyn pit, but without the pit-head gear etc; originally known as 'Banwen Disposal Point' it treated and graded anthracite from opencast sites in the Neath, Tawe and Amman Valleys.

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I wonder what was worth sheeting over? The adjacent vehicle seems to be an LNER 21t hopper, as modelled by Hornby.

Don't know what was in the hoppers that needed sheeting, but as you asked, here's the wagon you mention. It is an LNER type hopper.

 

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Also as internal used HUO's are the name of this thread, here are some more photos I took of them in internal use at Bolsover Coalite in August 1992. These 4 will have to surfice for the moment, but I took shots of another 16 wagons there, amongst an assortment of 21tHoppers of various origins, which have yet to be scanned. 

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Enjoy!

 

Paul J.

 

Addendum. I have now rescanned the Bolsover HUO photos to a higher resolution, and also some others taken on that day, (another 20 wagons in addition to the 4 above), and have started to upload them into an HUO Album on my Flickr page. It can be found at this link.  https://flic.kr/s/aHsmcWSNFy

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I have now rescanned the Bolsover HUO photos in my Post 8, to a higher resolution, and also some others taken on that day, (another 20 wagons in addition to the 4 above), and have started to upload them, along with other photos of HUO's in service, into an HUO Album on my Flickr page. It can be found at this link.  https://flic.kr/s/aHsmcWSNFy

In time I will find and scan the photos I took of the internal user HUO's at Onllwyn during visits in 1987 and 1992 and add them to the album as well.

 

Paul J.

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I have now rescanned the Bolsover HUO photos in my Post 8, to a higher resolution, and also some others taken on that day, (another 20 wagons in addition to the 4 above), and have started to upload them, along with other photos of HUO's in service, into an HUO Album on my Flickr page. It can be found at this link.  https://flic.kr/s/aHsmcWSNFy

In time I will find and scan the photos I took of the internal user HUO's at Onllwyn during visits in 1987 and 1992 and add them to the album as well.

 

Paul J.

 

Those photos were a big help to us when we were designing the HUOs Paul! 

 

Cheers,

 

Fran

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Hi everyone,

 

We have just received decorated samples of our NCB colliery internal user pack. A couple of tweaks required, but we are quite pleased with how they look as the tampo is a bit special. These would be perfect for those of you who have colliery or industrial based layouts! 

 

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Excuse the hasty images! 

 

These are of course available to pre order on our site and are due with our TOPS HUOs in September! 

 

Cheers,

 

Fran

 

 

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What will happen when he gets hold of a Cemflo?

 

Mark

 

Real cement dust perhaps? 

 

He did do this to our Irish cement tanks....

 

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CIE really let them get into terrible states, especially in their latter years of service as the top one represents! 

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Will you have them at the EM show ?? If so can i pick my order up there

 

Me 'may' be able to do that for you, but we are flying Ryanair, so if you promise not to tell a soul about this arrangement it might be possible so we dont have to sacrifice clean clothes for HUO space in our luggage.....

 

Email us nearer the time and we can see what we can do! 

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Very nice- will you be doing suitably-weathered sheep to go with them?

Just read this.Wondered when some soul would make the sheep connection,forever etched into the consciousness of our Anglo Saxon minds. Refreshingly,today's four footed population have cleaned up their act and there seem to be fewer of them anyway.They don't like wheelie bins.Gone are the days when back lanes echoed to the sound of pilfered dustbins.

 

Onllwyn is way up the Neath Valley.A feature film of the Miner's Strike (Saw it but can't for the life of me remember the title ) was made there not long ago(.Bill Nighy was in it ) was

 

Port Talbot is more celebrated for its steel .And a guy by the name of Jenkins....alias Richard Burton.

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Just read this.Wondered when some soul would make the sheep connection,forever etched into the consciousness of our Anglo Saxon minds. Refreshingly,today's four footed population have cleaned up their act and there seem to be fewer of them anyway.They don't like wheelie bins.Gone are the days when back lanes echoed to the sound of pilfered dustbins.

 

Onllwyn is way up the Neath Valley.A feature film of the Miner's Strike (Saw it but can't for the life of me remember the title ) was made there not long ago(.Bill Nighy was in it ) was

 

Port Talbot is more celebrated for its steel .And a guy by the name of Jenkins....alias Richard Burton.

 

The film you may be thinking of is titled "Pride", and is basically about how a group of gay and lesbian folk in London decided to help the miners in South Wales during the 1984/85 strike. Some good people in it, and a well told tale based on a true story IMHO.

 

John.

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