Accuraloads, by Accurascale

[Bob83a]

Thanks to Fran/McC. Not directly a Accurascale issue as Parcelforce/UK customs seem to be at fault.

 

This was my second order, the first sent 3 days earlier arrived in just 4 days!

 

 

[Andy Mac]

15 hours ago, Penrhos1920 said:

 

Those iron ore loads don't look anything like how it was loaded in South Wales.  Notice the humps, not a uniform distribution:

 

https://www.philt.org.uk/UKModernRail/1995-2005/i-dxG3bxj/A

It all depends on how the wagons are loaded......   95% of the iron ore cars that we load in our company have the smoothed off profile, which comes from being loaded in a train load out with the ore coming from bins above and being smoothed out by the chute skirts....  The other 5% comes from using front end loaders (JCB’s) which just dump the ore in as per your picture....

[aeroplane]

Will you be producing any loads to go with the MGRs please?

[McC]

9 minutes ago, motorcat said:

Will you be producing any loads to go with the MGRs please?

absolutely! We are currently working on options  

[The Stationmaster]

On 02/04/2021 at 07:25, Andy Mac said:

It all depends on how the wagons are loaded......   95% of the iron ore cars that we load in our company have the smoothed off profile, which comes from being loaded in a train load out with the ore coming from bins above and being smoothed out by the chute skirts....  The other 5% comes from using front end loaders (JCB’s) which just dump the ore in as per your picture....

But that is presumably an installation in Aus?   Generally loading in Britain does not - in every example I have seen - involve any signiificant part of the loading installation going inside the wagon (with the exception of bucket loaders where the bucket obviously has to tip inside the rave).   It depends very much on the method of loading - bucket loading will inevitably result in 'humps' in the load whereas bunker loading will tend to be less 'humpy' but still nothing is done to 'smooth' down the load.   Normally with bunker loading it depends very much on what s done at the entrance to and exit from the bunker in terms of minimising the spread of dust but even at its most extreme all that will happens in two places (as do miost bunker plants loading bogie wagons is that any part of it which enters the wagon won't have much effect on something as dense as iron ore.  

 

For example the bunker loading plant at Tyne Dock loaded the wagons in two places simultaneously (as is the normal practice when bunker loading bogie wagons) and the loads had two very distinct humps.

 

I don't know what iron ore loaded at Immingham looks like but this (photo below)  is what coal (bunker) loaded there looks like in a wagon - some slight 'smoothing' of the humps and that is is it.  Bunker loaded coal from Avonmouth had a vaguely similar appearance although the humps were not so distinctive there because of the way the bunker hoppers worked and, again there was limited 'smoothing'.