locoholic Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 Last weekend I took a few pictures of the depot at Aberdeen Waterloo. The wagons look to me like the "Silver Bullets" used for china clay traffic. Does anyone know what they're used for at Aberdeen, please? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium drjcontroller Posted May 11, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 11, 2019 IIRC china clay slurry is loaded here and goes to both the Caledonian Paper Mill at Irvine and to Workington Docks (Iggesund?). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold scottystitch Posted May 11, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 11, 2019 Every day is school day - I always thought Waterloo received clay slurry for use as drilling mud........... Thanks for the correction. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 It's actually Calcium Carbonate ( effectively ground marble) slurry, not china clay, used as a surface coating and filler for paper and board. It used to be imported by a firm called Croxton and Garry, now known as Omya ( https://www.omya.com/pages/uk/en/history.aspx ), and was at one time conveyed in ex-Blue Circle bogie hoppers. The current wagons being used are indeed the former 'Silver Bullets', I believe. Previously, Waterloo used to recieve wagons of china clay slurry for the local paper industry, as well as drilling mud. This latter wasn't based on china clay, but on Bentonite (Fuller's Earth), amongst other ingredients 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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