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  1. CEINEWYDD

    You wrote a message last summer about fish traffic at Folkestone which included traffic from S. Wales.  I asked a question on here a few weeks ago about this traffic, as I have read that some of this fish  was exported to France (specifically Paris) pre WW2. I got some responses but not hugely helpful.

     Do you have any idea what rolling stock could have been used, or where I could find out.  As far as I can tell, GWR had no cross channel rolling stock.  Renault & Citroen  exported kits of parts for their cars to Slough for assembly there , but I can not believe that the returned stock would have been used for this.  Ideas??   

     

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    2. truffy

      truffy

      I hail from Folkestone. I remember my parents coming home from the harbour fish market with a baby bath containing a cod so large that its head and tail would not fit in the bath.

       

      But we never had Oxydol soap powder. Strange that.

    3. Guy Rixon

      Guy Rixon

      Sorry, I don't have any specific information. If the shipping was known to be via Folkestone, then the load must have been transhipped there, as Folkestone never had train ferries.

       

      GWR fish vans --- bloaters or siphons --- seem plausible and they might have gone either in passenger trains or in fitted goods-trains. Later on, there were insulated and refrigerated containers for this kind of thing, and while I've no evidence of them being used cross-channel they would seem attractive for exporting fish.

       

      Cheers,

      Guy

    4. vaughan45

      vaughan45

      I am sorry my response was not hugely helpful - I may still have some Oxydol soap powder in my stash

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