Rail-Online Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 As you seemed to like the last pic I found, here's another of the inside of some steel opens loaded with slack, presumably for a power station, taken in 1964. There is also an ex-works van. Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRealistic Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Really useful, Tony. Good to see the 'shape' and type of the loads, as well as the interior sides. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 As you seemed to like the last pic I found, here's another of the inside of some steel opens loaded with slack, presumably for a power station, taken in 1964. There is also an ex-works van. Tony That looks very much like what we used to call 'Duff' in the anthracite producing area of South-West Wales. Apart from power station use, it was often mixed with a binding agent (I've heard of clay, bitumen or cement being used), then compressed into briquettes of varying sizes. In the heyday of the Welsh coal industry, most exporting ports had at least one plant for doing this, often referred to as 'Patent Fuel' works. The stuff used to rot the bottom of the doors and sides; places like Coedbach would pack straw into the resultant holes, and traces would be seen hanging out of the wagon. The last place to deal with duff was in Immingham, I believe, and Coedbach used to send at least one trainload per week there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Tomlinson Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 The picture makes the point as well that the internal sides of these wagons in service were a dark rust colour, with any paint applied on manufacture presumably being scoured away quickly by the loading and unloading process. John. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 The picture makes the point as well that the internal sides of these wagons in service were a dark rust colour, with any paint applied on manufacture presumably being scoured away quickly by the loading and unloading process. John. I don't think the insides were painted at all. If there was any paint at all, it would be at the top, where the painters had 'gone over' when painting the top edge of the sides. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted January 17, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 17, 2016 in the Durham coastal pits the coal was quite sulphurous, mix that with a bit of water and then add to steel = rust! Good shots of the insides of Mineral wagons are a godsend to us weathers! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Very useful picture here Tony great for rust n weathering tips... cheers neil. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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