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Not quite the same thing but there are also a few preserved locations with wagons on isolated lengths of track. There used to be one at Pickering (not sure if it’s still there) and none of the standard gauge track at the Conwy Valley Railway Museum is connected to the Blaenau Ffestiniog branch next door, although the stock presumably arrived by rail initially.

 

Staying in North Wales, the Dinorwic and Penmaenmawr quarry systems have multiple abandoned narrow gauge wagons (the latter even has a steam loco abandoned), while elsewhere the Cromford and High Peak Railway still has the remains of a standard gauge wagon in what presumably used to be a trap for runaways on one of the inclines.

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On 14/09/2020 at 17:09, 009 micro modeller said:

Not quite the same thing but there are also a few preserved locations with wagons on isolated lengths of track. There used to be one at Pickering (not sure if it’s still there)

 

There are three: a GER box van and an NER bogie stores van on an isolated siding next to the goods dock, and a WD Chas Roberts van outside the scout hut opposite the turntable.

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Medina Wharf on the Isle of Wight is a river wharf built by the railway for handling coal.

The railway closed in 1966, traffic ceasing in May but with engineers  trains running until late in the year.

Four SR 13 ton opens were left at the wharf after closure for the storage of crane grabs. These remained on site until around 1980.

 

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Cwm Colliery (South Wales) still has some tank wagons in place. There used to be a 7 plank ex-PO wagon at Wernddu, but probably gone by now. A couple of HAA's near Ebbw Junction. There are probably lots more, but the big railway has cleaned off a lot of stranded stock over the years. 

On 17/09/2020 at 08:37, IWCR said:

Medina Wharf on the Isle of Wight is a river wharf built by the railway for handling coal.

The railway closed in 1966, traffic ceasing in May but with engineers  trains running until late in the year.

Four SR 13 ton opens were left at the wharf after closure for the storage of crane grabs. These remained on site until around 1980.

 

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Do you still have any stock over at Sandown, nowadays?

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Sandown is used for engineers equipment when this is brought over, nothing kept on the Island now.

Still three wagons at Ryde, the two match wagons for the LT stock and a seized up ballast wagon.

Likely all will go this winter.

 

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Not on track, but a 16t mineral was retrieved from the Canal basin near Worsley long after the line it had escaped from had been lifted. 
 

There is a tanker visible at Tees yard from the A19 bridge that is marooned away from any tracks. 
 

I remember a tanker in an industrial premises in Birkenhead docks long since isolated from the rail network sat on inset track being used as a heating oil store. The site has been cleared in the intervening years. 
 

Tebay truck stop used to have a number of early TEA tankers without bogies in use as diesel tanks. 

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The KESR has a pointless siding for storing stock. The running line has to be slewed when stock is moved in or out. I understand everything has now been moved from there to Rolvenden Riverside shed. They also have a sidingless point at Rolvenden.

 

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There were three 12T vans at Hartlebury in the old RAF stores site which is now an industrial estate. The siding was last used  c1982 and I photographed the wagons still there in 1995. The last mortal remains are still visible on Google Earth if you know where to look amongst the trees

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On 14/09/2020 at 17:09, 009 micro modeller said:

 while elsewhere the Cromford and High Peak Railway still has the remains of a standard gauge wagon in what presumably used to be a trap for runaways on one of the inclines.

 

...and a Midland 5-plank displayed on the length of track at the top of the incline at Middleton Top

 

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When the Soar Lane lift bridge from Leicester West Bridge was displayed at the former Snibston museum, it had a 5-plank on the track...

 

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...and there were quite a few other wagons in the colliery sidings.- from memory they included a couple of 16-tonners, a tanker and a Midland/LMS brake van- IIRC the brake van at least is now at Mountsorrel, along with the Ellis & Everard 5-plank that used to be displayed in the museum

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In the 90s a solitary 21 ton hopper wagon was stranded in the middle of the former United Glass works in Castleford where it remained for a good decade or more. These sidings were accessed via a wagon turntable with stock propelled by a tractor.

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On 26/09/2020 at 08:38, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Back in the 90's, as you were driving in to Kings Lynn from the West, following the route of the M&GN, just past one of the remains of a bridge over a water course there was an abandoned 16 ton mineral wagon. I always wondered what happened to it.

 

Mike.

 

Preserved at North Norfolk 

 

There is a southern brake van truncated down refuse at Manea,  apparently was put in there in the 80s with a hotbox 

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