joseph benjamin Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 I've looked at it many times, it appears to have a covered section at each end with a transverse overhead beam carrying a chain block at the far end with a large beam lying longitudinally. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21, 2021 19 hours ago, joseph benjamin said: Can anyone identify the wagon of the extreme left above the ballast wagon, sorry it's a poor copy of the photo on page 179 of Through Limestone Hills Is it a rail vehicle? There's a chap kneeling down doing something to a wheel and to his right it looks like some sort of framework. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21, 2021 I've enlarged* the picture and it appears to be a Track Replacement Unit. Some of these were based on bogie well wagons with built up decks with cranes over the bogies. *To enlarge the pic, click on it and with the cursor on the pic right click and then click on 'show in new tab' the picture remains the same but the cursor is replaced by the enlarge symbol. Move that to the part you want to enlarge and click. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 To save a round trip... definitely a rail vehicle, bogied, with a brake handwheel, as described a few posts back and by PhilJ W just above: 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 Looks like it's been modified from a Bobol that's been modified from a Warwell. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 21, 2021 9 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said: Looks like it's been modified from a Bobol that's been modified from a Warwell. Indeed so, I found a photograph of a very similar machine on a Bobol modified from a Warwell but as it was in a book I can't reproduce it here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HGT1972 Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 The track relayer looks to be one of a batch of three built for the LMR on former Warwells in 1951. They were originally numbered TRM1-3 (DB965401-3) and later, under CEPS, DRB78004-6. Nice to see one lurking in the background of a photograph, although, to be fair that's where most of them appear as not many people took a picture of them. Hywel 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 (edited) Well, let's face it, who in their right mind ever took pictures of any sort of wagon ? .................. those of us who have done are definitely considered a little doolally by most people. Edited April 21, 2022 by Wickham Green too Photo reinstated 6 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 (edited) The German text on the end of that thing says "shunt with care", unsurprisingly. Do you think this from Paul Bartlett is a candidate for the original photo? DR78011 / TRU5 / DS70001: https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/warwell/h2F06CF84#h111a20aa Edited April 22, 2021 by eastwestdivide numbers 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 22, 2021 3 hours ago, eastwestdivide said: The German text on the end of that thing says "shunt with care", unsurprisingly. Do you think this from Paul Bartlett is a candidate for the original photo? DR78011 / TRU5 / DS70001: https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/warwell/h2F06CF84#h111a20aa Almost certain that is what it is. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HGT1972 Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 Paul's picture is the same design but built six years later for the SR rather than the LMR example in the initial photo. DRB78009-11 (TRU3-5) were built 1951/4/7 respectively. As with many of the TRUs they carried several numbers (often at the same time!), in this case DS84; DS87 and DS70001 respectively. Again all were former WD Warwells and they all worked with compressor wagons on various designs of underframes. Hywel 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 23 hours ago, eastwestdivide said: The German text on the end of that thing says "shunt with care", ........... Doesn't look particularly fragile to me ! 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph benjamin Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 I think you are right, it's a track layer, thank you. I've looked in all my books and found one photo of a painting by Terence Cuneo "Track laying by night" anybody any ideas where I might find a good side on photo or drawing? I guess locomotives were more interesting than wagons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted May 19, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2021 This old film came up on my YouTube feed the other day showing a different twin-jib design with covered central 'cab'. Couldn't quite see the number of the unit but it's coupled to PWM 650. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Railfreight1998 Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 Looks similar (or the same) as the one modelled by Hywel Thomas here: http://www.emgauge70s.co.uk/model_omwb96.html 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 To quote Wagon Paul again "A very interesting train, the second wagon has what appears to be a Hartman Insulated meat container from Yarmouth Vauxhall and the third is a unique experiment of putting a contemporary German style van body on a the frame from a BR Tube." 8F 48415 Cardiff General September 1964 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 I'm using my copy of Standard Railway Wagon Co. Heywood Works by David W Tandy as a reference for some of these wagons... Cricklewood 1989 I think this is REDA 28100 PTA built as a prototype PTA THOM 28000-28004 for Thompson Quarries Caption says it is a PXA?? PXA?? Piggyback wagon 13 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted May 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 22, 2021 Never realised the Thompsons wagons were side-tippers like that! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 7 minutes ago, keefer said: Never realised the Thompsons wagons were side-tippers like that! Not one of the Thompson’s but a Booth Ferry Borough Council one BBC28009-12. Used for minestone from Hatfield Colliry to Google for land recovery for industrial use! 1 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted May 23, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 23, 2021 On 20/05/2021 at 19:00, montyburns56 said: To quote Wagon Paul again "A very interesting train, the second wagon has what appears to be a Hartman Insulated meat container from Yarmouth Vauxhall and the third is a unique experiment of putting a contemporary German style van body on a the frame from a BR Tube." 8F 48415 Cardiff General September 1964 Note the red socked spotter on the barrow on platform 2. It isn’t me; I never had a haircut like that. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 This where they used to put naughty trainspotters. Ex-LNWR Cell Truck at Derby Midland 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 I've always been fascinated by these Minilink wagons. Has anyone ever seen them modelled? Railfreight '89 exhibition at Cricklewood One still in use at Merehead. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted May 28, 2021 Share Posted May 28, 2021 Others still at Kingmoor and visible from passing trains! 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 23 hours ago, Mark Saunders said: Others still at Kingmoor and visible from passing trains! There was also a Mini Link container at Warrington Arpley the last time I visited. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhall Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 and another at Peak Forest. Jon 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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