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BR Dia.1/801 Fish/Parcels Vans from Rapido Trains UK
Fat Controller replied to RapidoCorbs's topic in Rapido Trains
I can confirm they were fairly common at BTM in 1974/5, working out of the parcel depot to to the west of the station (Pylle Hill?) One or two carried a 'V' TOPS code, though I can't remember the second or third characters. -
Early BR freight stock markings
Fat Controller replied to Fettster42's topic in UK Prototype Questions
There was an accident on the WCML, where a train of SAB (two-axle air-braked, vac-piped) ran away . Upon investigation, it was found that all the vac-pipes were coupled, but the air-brake was confined to the front loco. -
I visited this shop (combined models and sweets-hop this morning, and was pleased to see they had they had a selection of Hornby-Dublo SD6 wagons. I paid £6 for a VGC Traffic Services tank; other items included two Fruit Ds, a Cattle wagon, steel-bodied Highfit, Breakdown train Packing Van. There were other items indicated as '3-rail'; I only glanced at these. Hoping this is of interest to someone.
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For engineers' spoil trains, I believe; saw them around Tyne Yard, in the early 1990s
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You could turn a pallet truck in the width of a wagon, but it wasn't easy.
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In the early 1970s, one of the GW-based examples was seen as a site hut at Pentrepoeth, Llanelli; it almost caused me run into it on my 'bike! It's origin and identity were a mystery to me at the time, there being virtually nothing published about wagons. Uneven wheel-loads, together with 'twist' in both wagons and track, remains a concern The problem seems to arise when several parameters are close to their limits.
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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.
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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.
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Bridge bashing
Fat Controller replied to chriswright03's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
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. -
Bridge bashing
Fat Controller replied to chriswright03's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Burry Port and Gwendreath Vallley, not L&MMR. The L%MMR is the one at the top of the hill -
Alternative Coal Wagon Loads
Fat Controller replied to brynnydd's topic in Modelling Questions, Help and Tips
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. -
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.
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Autoroute ferroviaire, (railway motorway)
Fat Controller replied to JeffP's topic in French Railways
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. -
Autoroute ferroviaire, (railway motorway)
Fat Controller replied to JeffP's topic in French Railways
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 -
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.
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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.
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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.