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11 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

44059 should have been a 1937 built L.M.S. dia.1994 tanker - and that's certainly what it looks like ....... so why the 'W' prefix ?

 

4 minutes ago, Fat Controller said:

It appears to follow the coaching stock practice of changing the prefix when stock was transferred between regions.

Milk tanks were classed as None passenger coaching stock and numbered as such.

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32 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:

Which would have made some sense if there was a regional suffix to denote maintenance responsibility !

I had a look through Larkin's volume on milk tanks, and suffixes were conspicuous by their absence; there were quite a few changes of prefix, presumably applied as milk traffic was concentrated on the Southern and Western Regions. Were all milk tanks maintained at Swindon?

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58 minutes ago, montyburns56 said:

 

Is that because it's working with a steam crane? And if so, did they usually have a tanker in the consist?

Hi Monty,

 

After the withdrawal of steam locomotives, tank wagons were added to steam crane consists as previously the cranes took water form locomotive's tenders should they have required a top up on a job.

 

Gibbo.

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On 16/07/2021 at 09:27, Gordon A said:

Nice picture of a 36 ton SWL (?) crane.

Do you have any more?

These do for a start ? : -

 

ADS80 ( later ADRR 95225 ) : Orpington, 4/9/7614_14.jpg.55022010ee92c4b79b59f7b583e38035.jpg

 

 

ADRR 95209 ( 45T, ex ADS1650 ) & ADRR 95201 ( ex ADS81  :), Clapham Junction, 21/10/84114_29.jpg.85516dc48f41de3530bfd4dec7164655.jpg114_31.jpg.7f1ac493d2bd874d29348be90ab80575.jpg

 

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