RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted October 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 28, 2021 One of a number of slides and negatives I'm scanning for the next book includes this image of 33028 at Olympia. Can anyone identify the wagon under the road bridge that looks like an out of gauge tank? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 Was going to say a Cemflo, but I think those had gone from the south by the time D78 stock was on the scene. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derekl Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 Here is a cropped and lightened version of the wagon in question. Not sure that it helps much, although I note that there appear to be a couple of Presflos a little further back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold phil_sutters Posted October 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 28, 2021 Having blown the image up a bit. It appears to have some sort of strapping across it and there may be the side of an open wagon. So it could be a rather large cylindrical tank loaded on an open wagon. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 If it is a full round shape then the bottom part of that circle would be below normal wagon chassis height. Could it instead be loaded onto a bogie well wagon? Given the foreshortening and shadow it's hard to make much detail out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted October 28, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 28, 2021 Thanks for the help so far, here's the image cropped and blown up more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheatley Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 (edited) I think it's a bog standard TTA or similar, and the shadow from the bridge falling across it is making the end circumference look bigger than it really is. Edited October 28, 2021 by Wheatley 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 I think it might be TWO bog standard TTAs .... making it look bigger than one ! ......................... or, perhaps, not so standard covered hoppers from one of the PAA or PCA families. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 The SR didn’t do unfitted trains by the time the D78 stock was on the scene, so with all those VB wagons, it’s unlikely to be a pure AB wagon. Perhaps one of the AB with vacuum pipes, in other words coded xxB?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheatley Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 Good point. There were some very similar monoblock vac braked tanks which followed the 35t 'Airfix' tanks, either one of those or something of similar size and shape perhaps. Either way I don't think it's anything terribly exotic. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium acg5324 Posted October 29, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 29, 2021 Thanks everyone for your input. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 22 hours ago, eastwestdivide said: The SR didn’t do unfitted trains by the time the D78 stock was on the scene, so with all those VB wagons, it’s unlikely to be a pure AB wagon. Perhaps one of the AB with vacuum pipes, in other words coded xxB?? It is far more likely to be a TTV. The majority of 45t GLW tank wagons that ended up as TTAs were only vacuum braked for the first 15 - 20 years of their existence. Their rebuilding was during the early 1980s. Paul 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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