Guy Rixon
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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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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
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