Scrap metal ferrous iron

[class37418stag]

Hello everyone 

please excuse my English 

 

I has searched for pictures online by wagon carry scrap metal ferrous iron by 1980 to 1994 but can’t find 

 

so British steel use scrap metal of 

ferrous iron 

baled

rusty pipes

rusty & bent girders 

 

please find pictures 

 

thank you

 

[hmrspaul]

BR Standard 16t mineral wagons. Usually the load wouldn't show from the side view

 

https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brmineralclaspvb/e2e44688f

 

https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brmineralclaspvb/e2d2176d6

 

Paul

[Fat Controller]

My internet connection is fairly slow at present, so it's difficult to search for photos. However, there are certain places that might yield photos if you Googled them. These include:-

Aldwarke

Stockbridge

Cardiff Tidal Yard

Cooper's Shipley

Sheerness

I'm sure others can suggest other locations that might include photos of scrap traffic and wagons. A particularly poignant sight in the seventies and eighties were wagons carrying plainly recognizable pieces of old steel plant; I saw bits of both Consett and Ravenscraig being taken to Teesside when these works were being demolished.

[SP Steve]

Not all metal scrap was of the rusty variety as the following image shows.

 

 

 

Manchester Victoria with a local trip working incorporating 16T minerals filled with scrap tin plate ex Metal Box at Westhoughton. Other locations I can recall dealing with scrap traffic were Rover's car manufacturing plant at Longbridge and Newport Docks. The latter location took scrap from BREL Swindon and I have pictures of piles of scrap that in a previous incarnation had been Class 25 locos.

Edited March 31, 2022 by SP Steve

[Rivercider]

There are a few photos of scrap traffic on my Flickr site.

Here are some of them

47112 passes Severn Tunnel Junction with MDVs of scrap. This may be from Snailwell to Cardiff Tidal for ASW. 25/9/86

 

40084 passes beneath Warrington Bank Quay with 7E77 Edge Hill to Tinsley. 23/3/82.

 

It is not clear from this angle, but the single MCV is conveying scrap which will be weighed on the weighbridge in Bridgwater Yard. 8B05 from Taunton arrives behind 08281. 12/9/80.

 

 

6C43 Severn Tunnel  Junction to Llandeilo Junction passes Gaer Junction Newport behind 46049. The front portion is MCVs of scrap offcuts from a tin can factory for Llanelli Nevills Dock. 25/1/82.

 

20188 and 20186 are working a Toton to Tinsley service with MCVs of scrap for Deepcar. seen passing Chesterfield. 16/9/81.

 

 

A local trip working for Ipswich Derby Road departs Ipswich Yard behind 47146, the rear wagon is a scrap empty for loading at Derby Road. 11/11/83

 

cheers

Edited March 28, 2020 by Rivercider
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[Phil R]

Mid-late '80s had POA (later SSA) wagons on some flows. These were high-sided box wagons painted in a deep turquoise with yellow ends. I believe the official colour was Barclays Blue. Upto 1990 (I think) they carried 'SR'  branding in white as they were leased from Standard Rail. 

Due to the loads they carried they developed very dirty, rusty coloured bodies. 

 

Some HEA coal wagons were recoded HSA for scrap work, the hopper doors being welded shut. 

 

Bachmann have produced models of both these types of wagons over the years. 

Loads are easy to make from your own 'scrap box' using offcuts from plastic kits, bits of wire, metal etc

 

Edited March 29, 2020 by Phil R
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[Enterprisingwestern]

 

Search for pictures of Tinsley reception sidings, they are generally taken from the car park area at the top of the bank and give good views into the wagons.

 

Mike.

[class37418stag]

Hello 

 

thank you for give your message and I am happy 

so Inverness scrap metal yard and delivery on wagon to south ?

 

[class37418stag]

Hello everyone 

please excuse my English 

 

British steel buy scrap ferrous metal for melting ?

 

 Thank you