montyburns56 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Kudos to Richie B for taking this epic picture of a nuclear waste cask on a KXA at Barrow Docks. 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonhall Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 I had no idea there were so many of those. Jon 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 On 16/06/2021 at 11:25, Mark Saunders said: The Derwenthaugh traffic was coke to Wakefield for the local hospital and was carried on FEW’s . The Boulby traffic was salt to Middlesbrough Goods plus at one stage a small fleet of PFA’s as in the one at the top using former tank chassis! They also worked in South Wales where some, at least, of the 4-wheel conversions were done. Three collections visible via https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/?q=cobra Paul 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 19 hours ago, hmrspaul said: They also worked in South Wales where some, at least, of the 4-wheel conversions were done. Three collections visible via https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/?q=cobra Paul Ahh right, so it's Boplates that they are sat on. i was wondering what they were. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 5 hours ago, montyburns56 said: Ahh right, so it's Boplates that they are sat on. i was wondering what they were. I helped someone measure the former Cobra wagons in Tees Yard/ Middlesboro Goods back in 1987. I recollect the wagons were 'Boplates' in origin, but they had come to be container carriers by a variety of routes. Some had been straight conversions, some had been Boflats, whilst some had been built as replacements for 4-wheel wagons on the Condor service. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon side-tipping ore wagons at Irchester 1964 by TrainsandTravel 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted June 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 20, 2021 (edited) On 14/06/2021 at 19:44, montyburns56 said: These these aren't that odd as they were KAA wagons, but the trailers definitely are. Apparently they were built for a Blue Circle flow from Westbury to Southampton in the early 2000s. This one is interesting as the last three wagons seem to have something different on them. I believe all bar one ended up in Europe. The solitary UK example in use as an equipment carrier at the former RTC yard at Derby - it has made the odd foray to/from Barrow Hill. A Genesis kit. (Pic by Andy Y/BRM) The wagon behind is a former MEA, now used for carrying test load weights at the RTC site. I believe some of the KAAs have just returned to the UK in the past month or so. Now coded IXA Edited June 20, 2021 by newbryford extra info 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 Not your typical POA.... By Huw Millington 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 21, 2021 Property of the GW society. Used to deliver locomotive coal to the Didcot rail centre. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippel Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 Curious when you look at the builders plate with a B prefix number and built at Lancing in 1956? Paul 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 7 minutes ago, Hippel said: Curious when you look at the builders plate with a B prefix number and built at Lancing in 1956? Paul Ferry open built for BR - the air brakes fitted for ferry traffic helped it survive no doubt. 1 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 (edited) Some were also painted in the red/grey Railfreight colours, coded OJX or OJA if air brake only. Peco do this wagon in N, but the Railfreight version is coded OBA! They did do a GW version too, though it came out before the prototypes did. Edited June 21, 2021 by BernardTPM 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Bendall Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 2 hours ago, PhilJ W said: Property of the GW society. Used to deliver locomotive coal to the Didcot rail centre. Not anymore, they were replaced by three OBAs a few years ago, went for scrap IIRC. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 2 hours ago, Hippel said: Curious when you look at the builders plate with a B prefix number and built at Lancing in 1956? Based very much on a pre-war Southern design. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 On 21/06/2021 at 21:05, BernardTPM said: Some were also painted in the red/grey Railfreight colours, coded OJX or OJA if air brake only. Peco do this wagon in N, but the Railfreight version is coded OBA! They did do a GW version too, though it came out before the prototypes did. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brferryopen Paul 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 I don't know what the wagons are, but the load of Bayline Transit coaches is interesting. By Paul Green 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 1 hour ago, montyburns56 said: I don't know what the wagons are, but the load of Bayline Transit coaches is interesting. By Paul Green They are Railease Comtics in Silcock and Colling orange. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/comtic I thought Bayline Transit was going to be from USA Paul 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 Not odd in itself, but according to Paul Bartlett's site they were owned by Procor hence the markings, used as Match wagons and coded as PXQ. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steadfast Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 13 hours ago, montyburns56 said: owned by Procor hence the markings, used as Match wagons and coded as PXQ. Yep, buckeye couplings at the other end, to allow movement of buckeye fitted wagons in the Mendip area to be taken to Radstock for maintenance, from memory. Jo 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Presumably, being Procor vehicles, B.R. staff - or whoever they were at the time - weren't allowed to use them ..... hence the need for a separate brake van ( to the left ). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steadfast Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 The photo shows them stabled at Westbury @Wickham Green too, so who knows what else was on that siding! Procor owned the ex steel tipplers used by Yeoman and ARC, as well as the KEA wagons and countless others used in the area. I'd imagine it'd be BR staff shunting the trains together, and Marcroft doing the maintenance. If it's anything like today, VTG own the wagons but it's up to the people leasing the wagons to shunt them etc. For example currently, boxes are leased from VTG, sets planned by DB, shunted by DB shunters and drivers, cripples knocked out and maintained by DB Cargo Maintenance (formerly known as Axiom Rail, and before that Marcroft). VTG planners may request vehicles be knocked out for maintenance, but they don't have operational staff to do the shunting etc. Jo 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 18 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said: Presumably, being Procor vehicles, B.R. staff - or whoever they were at the time - weren't allowed to use them ..... hence the need for a separate brake van ( to the left ). They were no longer brake vans, simply Coupling Adapter wagons. Further wagons of this type were to be found on Teesside, and possibly also in South Wales. Some had had the body removed, leaving a flat floor with a brake standard in the middle. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 26 minutes ago, Fat Controller said: They were no longer brake vans, simply Coupling Adapter wagons. Further wagons of this type were to be found on Teesside, and possibly also in South Wales. Some had had the body removed, leaving a flat floor with a brake standard in the middle. The LMS ones retained their bodies and the BR ones stripped with only the brake remaining with added handrails! Not to be confused with the six LMS ones used as spacer wagons with the Cargo Fleet to Consett Torpedo movement. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted June 28, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 28, 2021 2 minutes ago, Mark Saunders said: The LMS ones retained their bodies and the BR ones stripped with only the brake remaining with added handrails! Not to be confused with the six LMS ones used as spacer wagons with the Cargo Fleet to Consett Torpedo movement. Is that what those ones with buckeyes that were in the west end were for? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Another Cell Truck... M395492 Dundee 1981 by Bruce Galloway 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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