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Private Owner Tunnel Cement hoppers (as modelled by Bachmann)


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8 hours ago, br2975 said:

The 'Rail Express' referred to above article will tell you all you need to know - including which private owners owned which wagons, which were in addition to the BR built wagons.

 

As there seem to be (at least) 2 different designs of board, does the article specify any timescales?

 

Mike.

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The BR 'Presflo' wagons were built to 13 different 'lots' over a period of ten years from 1954, and by five different builders e.g. BR Shildon, Met-Camm, Central Wagon, Butterley Engineering Co and Gloucester RC&W.

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Tunnel Cement (and Rugby Cement) both hired BR built wagons , many of the hired wagons carried advertising boards for those two companies.

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The Tunnel Cement wagons worked from Purfleet, Tring & Penyffordd to terminals at King's Cross, Bevois Park (Southampton), Kew Bridge, Oakengates and Birmingham.

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Many, if not all, the BR wagons hired to Tunnel Cement carried both their BR number, and a seperate Tunnel Cement fleet number.

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In addition to the hired BR wagons, Tunnel Cement also owned eight of its' own wagons, Built by the Butterley Engineering Co in 1961 whence they were numbered 1A - 8A.

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These wagons were registered by the LMR, and allocated the registration numbers 184700-184707

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With the advent of TOPS, they were allocated the numbers TC8901-TC8908.

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The 8 Tunnel Cement wagons originally carried a specialist sulphate resisting product, from Aberthaw - Southampton, although in later years the flow was from Tring - Southampton.

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Withdrawal appears to have been sometime after 1986.

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Hope this helps ?

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Brian R

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