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  1. Nottingham Class 31 down grain and Class 45 up ecs March 75 J4184 Wow a Bass Charrington, LMS design grain in traffic at the head of the train. I've never noticed one of them out on the mainline before. Also looks like another just out of shot on left. Presumably working to Burton Paul https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/bchgrain
  2. Only guessing as to local use. Other wagons in the yard were in active service so this may well have been. I was just surprised I had a photo of a wagon of interest. As can be seen photos in Italy are very rare, I don't go out of my way at all to photograph railway subjects when on family holidays. Paul
  3. Interesting about the GCR mainline, an ER V2 in an accident with a WR Hall. Paul
  4. But are these working to Sellafield? That was the original request. As mentioned earlier https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brtbogietank2/ed83fdec Later used by Hays for Sulphuric acid. Paul
  5. That would suggest these were similar to this Acrylic acid tank https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/tiphookacrylic Paul
  6. Unexpectedly I photographed one of these when unloading a car at the Milan motorail depot https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/italianrailway/ea46480d4 in 1995. I suspect in "internal use" the way the door is open and it is at the blocks. Paul
  7. Hi anonymous ex major influencer on the GoG forum. Yes extensively discussed. The north (Wigan) is getting a winter show. There has been a demand for a southern show - hardly surprising as that is where the money is - but there is already a O gauge winter show by others - in Guildford - so avoiding this meant Kempton being in the summer. There is a great O gauge show in the autumn at Sunderland Nissan plant 28 - 29 September. I'm completely independent of that, but the only O gauge show I'm planning to go to this year. Wigan in winter, no thanks. Miserable journey from York. Yes, it was not a change taken without much anxiety on the forum. But you would know that if you had stayed. Paul
  8. or convert you all to 7mm where the difference in discounted prices between 4mm and 7mm vanwide models is minimal. 😇 Admittedly the Palvan is a kit build at the moment in 7mm. Paul
  9. This is one of the last of these to be built. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/berrywiggins/efb2a888 Plenty of photos amongst https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/pounbraked An example of one remaining in internal use in 1988 and probably later https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/mtd/e32f01336 or https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/nationalbenzole/e3c7676e9 But I don't know if any of these are the same barrel size as the model. There were lots of differences. Paul
  10. 5239 in 2016 https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/mark2coach/e74e4015d Paul
  11. Caustic Soda was carried in tanks as described. Smaller than the ECC ones https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/frenchcausticsoda Paul
  12. Presumably if you are talking about the Nitric acid I think that may have been the tanks that were later used by Hays for UKF traffic, but I'm not sure. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brtbogietank2/ed83fdec But where they working to Sellafield or to Workington for the works at Albright & Wilson Corkicle. Paul
  13. Possibly. Even having friends that worked for Rowntrees for decades they are too young to remember these vans. In the pub last week there was mention of trying to get one of the very large bogie ferry vans in. I digress. I think the problem may well have been as you suggest, with forklift trucks not so readily available at many yards. By the later 1960s when I worked at a Schweppes delivery warehouse the product came in on open sheeted flat trucks or the Freightliner curtainsided containers (type M). They could stand in the middle of the yard and forklifts could access either side. 20tons unloaded in a few minutes. But, yes not so easily done in 1954, or even 1964. The few times I went into freight yards I was surprised how often hand loading of vans continued - even the APCM Palvans in 1977 which were simply an extended Vanwide https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/apcmvan/e1a1401db. Paul
  14. Not really, the VANWIDE replacement design was so successful that large numbers survived to be airbraked and used into the 1990s. And traffic such as the chocolate from Rowntrees survived to have it loaded in VDAs also into the 1990s. It was the mis-judged end of Speedlink that filled our roads up with unnecessary long distance lorries. Paul
  15. These had been in Nitric Acid traffic for MODA, but I don't know if they went to Sellafield https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/modanitric Nitric acid is very heavy and therefore specialist tanks in the past were much smaller than those for petroleum/oils. https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/modatopsacidtanks https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/iciunfittank/e1fbd472f Caustic soda, https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/icicausticsodatta https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/icicausticsodatua Paul
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