PatB Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Fat Controller said: A lot used to be 'cut'n'shut' from longer boxes, expressly for the construction market Interesting. I have to confess I never looked closely enough at ours, when I worked in mechanical construction, to determine whether they were the real deal or hack jobs. Ours were used for more specialist storage. One for rigging gear and the other for hazardous materials. The general stores were in a couple of 40 footers, fitted out for the purpose and placed to form the sides of a poly-arch when space on site allowed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 8 minutes ago, PatB said: Interesting. I have to confess I never looked closely enough at ours, when I worked in mechanical construction, to determine whether they were the real deal or hack jobs. Ours were used for more specialist storage. One for rigging gear and the other for hazardous materials. The general stores were in a couple of 40 footers, fitted out for the purpose and placed to form the sides of a poly-arch when space on site allowed. W H Davis make custom-built sub-20' boxes for the oil and gas industry:- http://www.whdavis.co.uk/images/uploads/images/OffshoreBrochure 1.pdf Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted June 26, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 26, 2019 Many years ago there were some grants available to get more freight on rail. I remember seeing one of the results. IIRC Sandersons wallpapers were one of the customers and Containers used to arrive at Leeds FLT (Souton). These somehow split into, I think, three smaller containers that could then go direct to a particular shop. I have no idea what happenned long term. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Fat Controller said: W H Davis make custom-built sub-20' boxes for the oil and gas industry:- http://www.whdavis.co.uk/images/uploads/images/OffshoreBrochure 1.pdf Handy things, but my former employers were way too cheapskate to have bought anything either new or purpose built. Most of what we had to work with appeared to have been found in a metaphorical skip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 1 hour ago, jamie92208 said: Many years ago there were some grants available to get more freight on rail. I remember seeing one of the results. IIRC Sandersons wallpapers were one of the customers and Containers used to arrive at Leeds FLT (Souton). These somehow split into, I think, three smaller containers that could then go direct to a particular shop. I have no idea what happenned long term. Jamie There were two versions of this idea, known as Maxi-Link and Mini-Link, trialled in the late 1980s. Maxi-link were single 'swap-bodies', with retractable legs, whilst Mini-Link had several boxes on a subframe. As usual, Paul Barlett has some images:- https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/minilink BTW,the Cricklewood exhibition was the same day as the Hillsborough tragedy 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 4 minutes ago, Fat Controller said: There were two versions of this idea, known as Maxi-Link and Mini-Link, trialled in the late 1980s. Maxi-link were single 'swap-bodies', with retractable legs, whilst Mini-Link had several boxes on a subframe. As usual, Paul Barlett has some images:- https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/minilink BTW,the Cricklewood exhibition was the same day as the Hillsborough tragedy Some of the Minilink containers are at Kingmoor used for storage! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
plarailfan Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 The Huddersfield to Kirkburton branch line did have this "Ferodo" bridge across Leeds Road, not far from, the present day station at Deighton. Sadly the bridge was in a poor condition underneath and went soon after I took the pic around 1979 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 3 hours ago, plarailfan said: The Huddersfield to Kirkburton branch line did have this "Ferodo" bridge across Leeds Road, not far from, the present day station at Deighton. Sadly the bridge was in a poor condition underneath and went soon after I took the pic around 1979 I've always been under the impression that girder bridges on closed lines tended to be removed relatively quickly after closure. Presumably because it's easier to do than to demolish a brick or stone arch, and because the girders themselves have some value as scrap, unlike a pile of masonry rubble. That's just based on a completely free form interpretation of what I've seen, though, and not on any proper research. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 21 hours ago, PatB said: I've always been under the impression that girder bridges on closed lines tended to be removed relatively quickly after closure. Presumably because it's easier to do than to demolish a brick or stone arch, and because the girders themselves have some value as scrap, unlike a pile of masonry rubble. That's just based on a completely free form interpretation of what I've seen, though, and not on any proper research. Also reused elsewhere, the bridge on the flyover at Tyne Yard was recovered allegedly from somewhere in Northumberland? Mark Saunders 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharrc20 Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Just found a photo I took in December 1998 of the Ferodo advert on the over bridge at Hazel Grove. Funnily enough Malbern Windows seen on the advert on left hand side is still going strong today and I hear their jaunty jingle on the local Imagine FM radio station each day! Cheers Paul 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 On 26/06/2019 at 12:03, Mark Saunders said: Some of the Minilink containers are at Kingmoor used for storage! There's also one in the depot at Warrington Arpley, or there was a few years ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted May 3, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 3, 2020 This bridge has been mentioned a few times but no pic in the thread, I was in a possession job this morning at Stonebridge Park so had to drive under it to get to site near the Ace Cafe, north London 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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