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  1. Even when there were pallets, the loads were not secured to them, apart from a bit of Signode banding around the top layer. Back in 1979/80, I spent some months unloading 60kg sacks of gypsum from F1 Ferry vans. The load was on pallets, or at least it had been when loaded in Germany; due to the lack of anything securing the sacks in situ, they had slid between the pallets, into the space between load and doors etc. I reckon about a third of the load had to be rebagged; so much for labour-saving devices.
  2. They were not the greatest of successes, being implicated in a number of plain-track derailments. possibly due to uneven loading. Many ended their careers as Internal Users, being used as stores around yards and depot.
  3. I recollect working for a firm that used a small fleet of Leylands to deliver glazes and bagged clay around the North Midlands. As access was restricted in some some locations, they had a 'Terrier', complete with 'experienced' driver for 'okkard' jobs (If you've watched 'Great Pottery Throwdown', you'll have some idea). One morning, the Terrier was't aound, so the driver took out a 'Boxer' instead. I think the fleet manager got the first call to say the wagon seemed a bit tight, shortly getting one to say it was blocking both the works and the main road between Boslem and the D Road.
  4. Burry Port and Gwendreath Vallley, not L&MMR. The L%MMR is the one at the top of the hill
  5. Wasn't there a lot of swapping Mk1 stock about to release vehicles for rebuilding for the Bournemouth Electrification?
  6. In the 'Export or Die' days of the 1950s and 1960s, Vauxhall (and doubtless others) would send crated CKD vehicles to the docks in whatever wagons were available. This included 16t Minerals.
  7. Other loads in the two types:- Ppe :-Palletized bricks Latrge packing cases for the Grey Funnel Liine Tubes:- casks of beer, aluminium slabs, also large cases for the services. I nave seen a photo of a 'Pipe attached to a Milford- Swansea passenger working; presumably something for the MoD.
  8. It's not David, but a French chap called Patrick Delmaere, though they seem to know a lot of the same people. There's often interesting photos, sometimes historic. What I've not found is a way of lining to individual photos; otherwise I'd link to a view of a Sete- Calais container, possibly trailer on flat car. This would be North African citrus fruit, possibly heading for the UK.
  9. This link may be of use:- https://lapassiondutrain.blogspot.com/ The chap's based in Hazebrouk, but has contacts all over the place, regards Brian
  10. Back in 1975, I went to Barnstaple by train. It was definitely a branch terminal, and there was a rake of Banana vans in the (Busy) goods yard
  11. They were built with twin pipes, the second pipe becoming redundant when they started running inn mixed formations with single-piped (mainly Ferry-wagons) stock.
  12. Are they catch points, or are they expansion joints on an early installation of Long-Welded Rail?
  13. Curiously, Hornby did a Conflat B, loaded with a 20' Freightliner container. The upper-works were poor, but the underframe was a pretty good representation of an 8-shoe, lifting-link, type, as fitted to 21t VB minerals.
  14. Some went on to Redland Roof Tile traffic, then went in to the TML (later Eurotunnel) for used by the maintenance department. They could sometimes be seen from the A20. Not sure about their current situation.
  15. I think there was one in the Gateshead collection; have a look in DaveF's or Irish Swiss ERnie's collection.
  16. That's beautiful work; I especially like the gouged tyres. My French friends have one that serves as a reserve to a 1964 Fordson;. The French ones were built under licence by Hotchkiss, who also built Jeeps (and machine-guns}
  17. 'Chinagraph' pencils work, and can be sharpened with a normal pencil sharpener.
  18. Some were not fitted with bolsters, or coil cradles, but retained a clear floor. These were used to carry ingot moulds from BSC Landore, alongside Flat WLLs, until the early 1980s. Sadly, my note-book of wagon details was lost many years ago.
  19. The cat decided to delete my post... There has been a photo on RMWeb, of Conlflat Ls beiing unloaded at Bridgewater in the late 1950s. They were being emptied into tipper lorries fitted with hoods, but the load is visible. There are Presflos in the same view, suggesting different grades of cement. As to whether the containers could be unloaded whilst still on the wagon.. This would be very difficult, as the cutout on the floor was on a diagonal axis in comparison to the wagon floor.
  20. I don't know when the practice started, but the railways used to issue outline drawings with interior dimensions, door openings etc. They also had Load Inspectors, who would advise on the best practice for loading.
  21. Though all the vans in the photos appear to be standard 12t ventilated vans.... Might I suggest that they are either in store, or being used for seasonal fertiliser/ animal feed traffic?
  22. The traffic at Wareham was probably to/from the onshore oil field near Furzebrook. I believe this was operated by BP, so its output would go to one of their refineries , perhaps Llandarcy Being crude oil, it would be treated as a Class A, liquid, so silver tanks and lots of barrier wagons would have been the rule. Some of the barriers might be opens working to the adjacent clay-pits..
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