Xerces Fobe2 Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 (edited) The Langley Berks Oil Depot fire in the 1970's was quite spectacular, however here is a video of another accident where one of a pair of Class 37 overran the siding and went down the bank. Spot the single car class 121 and the Royal Mail Train passing in this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGEZ0O1oRGI XF Edited December 6, 2011 by Xerces Fobe2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 The entrance to the former Flax Bourton depot - taken in an idle moment while waiting for a Tornado to pass. Eric is that Cambridge Batch GSMR??? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
45125 Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 Saltend is a chemical plant which dispatched acetic acid by Rail i know there were flows to Spondon, Mostyn and Baglan Bay. There may have been others. As James said the traffic now goes by Pipe Line. Also There was a large plant at Barton on Humber till the mid 90's - Albright & Wilson? Paul Saltend dispatched various types of fuel and oils for Shell Mex up to the early 70s, after which the predominant flow was for BP Chemicals. Al Taylor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted December 7, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2011 (edited) The Langley Berks Oil Depot fire in the 1970's was quite spectacular, however here is a video of another accident where one of a pair of Class 37 overran the siding and went down the bank. Spot the single car class 121 and the Royal Mail Train passing in this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGEZ0O1oRGI XF The Langley Berks Oil Depot fire in the 1970's was quite spectacular, however here is a video of another accident where one of a pair of Class 37 overran the siding and went down the bank. Spot the single car class 121 and the Royal Mail Train passing in this video. XF Thanks for the link, XF. That brought back memories of when I used to 'play' with Healey Mills's 75t breakdown crane. Real sods to work on, but wonderfully versatile. Edited December 7, 2011 by 96701 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 By pure co-incidence, this morning I was travelling past the former site of the Langley Oil Depot on a Paddington bound Turbo on the up main when to total surprise I saw a 5 car Turbo entering the former oil depot loop (where the Class 37 was filmed) from the London direction. This loop has been retained and is used to recess freight s to allow passenger trains to pass, however I have never seen passenger stock in this loop before. I can only hazard a guess that it was a train with either problem and this was the easiest way to stop it causing a delay or it was an ECS working and it was going to return in the London direction in place of another service which might have had problems. XF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shed Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 As well as being overgrown, the oil sidings at Peterborough are not even conected any more, there are training tracks between the mainline and the sidings now. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 is everybody forgeting the oil terminal at Glazebrook which was open untill early ninties served from port clarence thames haven and i believe cardiff tidal at one point . conection and signal still there last time i passed even though the sidings had been cut back to the footbridge .the terminal is now under the A57 Cadishead bypass the only sign of the railway there is the fireless steam loco from irlam gas works standing at the side of the road . dont know if this counts but hasnt the cement terminal at weast been converted to an oil terminal ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted January 14, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14, 2013 is everybody forgeting the oil terminal at Glazebrook which was open untill early ninties served from port clarence thames haven and i believe cardiff tidal at one point . conection and signal still there last time i passed even though the sidings had been cut back to the footbridge .the terminal is now under the A57 Cadishead bypass the only sign of the railway there is the fireless steam loco from irlam gas works standing at the side of the road . dont know if this counts but hasnt the cement terminal at weast been converted to an oil terminal ? Don't you mean that the oil terminal at Weaste was converted to a cement terminal? http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=eccles&hl=en&ll=53.478073,-2.31383&spn=0.00273,0.006968&hnear=Eccles,+United+Kingdom&t=f&z=18&ecpose=53.47575261,-2.31382956,181.99,-0.012,57.919,0 Glazebrook was mentioned on the first page of this thread. Cheers, Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium richierich Posted December 19, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 19, 2013 (edited) A few I can think of (and sorry if already mentioned) are:- Shell:- Scarborough - closed 1992 Harrogate - closed 1989 York (Foss Islands) - Closed 1988 For these a train run from Stanlow to York, then split for Scarborough / Harrogate. Traction was mainly Class 31 / 37s using TTAs. Malton - closed 1970s? Esso Bedale - closed 1970s? Esso - Site been cleared for use by the Wensleydale Railway as a P-Way yard I think. Edited December 19, 2013 by richierich Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonC Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Is aviation fuel not still delivered to prestwick airport? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted December 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 20, 2013 Is aviation fuel not still delivered to prestwick airport? yep, colas move it in TTA wagons they also move aviation fuel to sinfin in derby in TEA wagons Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Interesting thread... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 (edited) I don't know if this would qualify as an 'oil terminal', but there were a couple of sidings along the pier at Gourock to hold tank wagons with fuel for the Clyde steamers. Here's a picture of a Stanier 5 shunting tanks there - http://www.flickr.com/photos/80572914@N06/7398255320/in/set-72157630154802550/lightbox/ . There's a "Maid" to the right of the engine, and you can see another boat (An 'ABC' ferry, I think) between the two lines of tanks. Sidings, steamers, engine and the berth the 'Maid' is tied up at are all long gone. Edited December 21, 2013 by pH 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
burgundy Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 is that Cambridge Batch GSMR??? Sorry to have missed this when it was originally posted. I don't know the abbreviation GSMR, but the sidings could well have been known as Cambridge Batch - even though Cambridge Batch is actually north east of Flax Bourton station, whereas the sidings are south west! I have also seen them referred to Tyntesfield sidings - Tyntesfield (the NT property) is at least on the right side of FB station. Hope this helps Best wishes Eric Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Sorry to have missed this when it was originally posted. I don't know the abbreviation GSMR, but the sidings could well have been known as Cambridge Batch - even though Cambridge Batch is actually north east of Flax Bourton station, whereas the sidings are south west! I have also seen them referred to Tyntesfield sidings - Tyntesfield (the NT property) is at least on the right side of FB station. Hope this helps Best wishes Eric GSMR is the 2G radio phone system that the cabin and mast support.Sad I can tell which cell it is, must get out more Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Road Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Riccarton terminal in Kilmarnock as well ( didn't see it noticed - excuse me if it is ) . Still open . M b Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dibber25 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Staines on the branch line from West Drayton - now terminates at Colnbrook - I have a picture of the final train departing the terminal. No, two different depots. Staines West opened in 1965 was central heating fuel from Thameshaven (Shell) via West Drayton with Ripple Lane locos usually changed at Acton for a Class 22 or a Hymek. Later Ripple Lane locos worked through to Staines including on one occasion, a Class 40. At least one recorded instance of a Warship and one of a Western. In 1981 the branch was severed for M25 construction and the oil trains ran in via Staines SR and a new connection to the Windsor line. This lasted for just over 10 years before the lease ran out and the depot closed. The site is now housing. Colnbrook is, as I understand it, an access to the Heathrow fuel pipeline, put in as an emergency measure after the Langley fire. It is served (occasionally) by Murco bogie tanks from Milford Haven. CHRIS LEIGH Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david12345 Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Riccarton terminal in Kilmarnock as well ( didn't see it noticed - excuse me if it is ) . Still open . M b Still open last Monday. Class 66 rumbling away when I was in the Next car park. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve O. Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 In my area (West Yorks) there were several that I know of, ... 4. There is a disused one where the line to Halifax diverges from the L&Y calder valley main line at Elland. As far as I know the equipment is still there and may be visible on Google earth.## ... Jamie Hi Jamie, No.4 is certainly there on Google, including the tracks within the perimeter fence (and remnants of the now-severed link to the mason line. (Sorry, can't paste the image via my phone but here's the street view location. Dropped Pin near Stainland Rd, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX4 8LR, UK http://goo.gl/maps/qnrUS Cheers, Steve O. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 23, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2013 Greetland - I know someone who photographed that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
South of 1E Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share Posted December 30, 2013 (edited) many thanks for all your replies for a topic that had a good run An initial list of oil depots as reported by RM web members below, i hope with time to include closure dates and sample workings and basic layout..may take some time! Again many thanks for your replies and apologies if i missed some! NR www.leightonlogs.org Oil Depots no more…… Aberystwyth Albion (nr Sandwell n Dudley) Ardrossan Harbour Avonmouth (refinery) Aylesbury Ayr Harbour Banbury Beckingham (nr Newark) (British Pipeline Agency-BPA) Bedale Bedworth (still in use) Bexhill, Galley Hill Sdgs Blantyre (Bitumen) Bowling Bradwell/Longport Bridgewater British Cellophane Bromford Bridge Bromsgrove Bunchrew (nr Inverness) Burn Naze Cambridge(Barnwell) Cambridge (Brooklands Avenue) Cambridge (Coldham Lane) Canterbury West Cardiff Alexandra Dock Cardiff (Ferry Rd, Cogan) Carlisle Petteril Bridge Chatteris Coleshill Colnbrook - still in use Colwyn Bay Yard Colwick Connel Ferry Coryton (refinery) Croxley Mill Culloden (bitumen) Dalston (nr Carlisle) Derby Dover Bulwark sdg Dundee Harbour Dunstable Earley Earlswood East Cranmore (bitumen) Ecclesfield West (Sheffield) Elswick, Tyneside (bitumen) Ellesmere Port (refinery) Exeter City Basin Fawley (refinery) Flax Bourton (nr Weston S.Mare) Fort William still in use Frome (bitumen) Furzebrook (loading terminal) Gainsborough Lea Rd (loading terminal) Glan Conwy (Llandudno Jn) Glazebrook Goostrey Grain (refinery) Grangemouth (refinery) still in use Granton (Edinburgh) Grays (refinery) Greetland (Halifax) Harrogate Hartlebury Haverfordwest Hawkesbury Lane (Coventry) Hawkshead (Paisley) Haydock (Wigan) Hayle Wharf Heathfield Herbrandston (refinary) Hethersett (Norwich-Ely line) Hexham High Brooms Horsham Hunslett East Islip Jarrow Kelmarsh Kilmarnock, Riccarton term - still in use Killingholme Admiralty wharf (refinery) Lairg - still in use Langley Langley Green Leith Docks Leuchars Littlemore Liversedge (Mirfield) Llandarcy Longbridge Long Eaton Machynlleth Mallaig Malton Melksham Micheldever Misterton Mollington (Birkinhead) Nechells gasworks Newbury New Hythe North Camp Northampton North Walsham Nuneaton Old Kilpatrick Ore Padworth (Aldermarston) Pan Ocean (Birkenhead) Parkeston Quay Partington Penmere Peterborough Perth Plymouth Cattlewater Portfield (Chichester, North end of PLUTO pipeline) Preston docks (bitumen) still in use Prestwick still in use Priest Heath Pumpherston (Midcalder) Purfleet (refinery) Purton (Wilts) Reading Central Robeston (refinery) still in use Rowley Regis Royston Safron Walden Salfords (Gatwick) Saltend (BP chems only in later years) Sandy Heath (BPA d-day to France) Sea Mills (Avonmouth branch) Selsdon (nr Sandersted) Shirehampton Sinfin (Rolls Royce) still in use St Helens, Cowley Hill Scarborough Shrewsbury Abbey Shrewsbury Coton Hill Skipton (Bitumen) Slough Industrial Estate Sdgns Soho Pool Southall Staines West Stanlow (refinery) Stansted Mountfitchet Swanpool (Falmouth) Swindon Teesport (refinery) Thame Thameshaven (refinery) Theale Tile Hill -Torrington Avenue Tipton -Lurgi Gas works Tiverton Jn Uttoxeter Ulverston Warsop (Shirebrook) Warwick - Old Cape Yd Watton (E.Yorks) Watton-at-Stone Wellinborough Welton (Lincoln-Market Rasen) Westerleigh still in use Whittington (Gobowen) Witton Wolverhampton Stow Heath York Foss Island Loco depots/refuelling points A small rake of 45t tanks were a familiar site at many depots/stabling points in the 70’s, Kings Cross loco sidings being a familiar one. Laira was still rail served until late 2013, Gourock, Oban, Weymouth Q and Mallaig had facilities for the ferrys to fuel Power Stations Oil trains used on occasions for big loads to start boilers, eg Didcot, Rugeley Industrial plants Many steel works and large units also had regular oil traffic in addition to a variety of traffic these plants dealt with any more??? Edited January 1, 2014 by South of 1E Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne (bitumen) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 (edited) Prest wick, leuchars ,Lairg, fort william and colnbrook still going I think ..... Edited December 31, 2013 by rob D2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob D2 Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 And sinfin for RR Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devonbelle Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I like the list South of 1E did - well done. On the list it has a site Id quite forgotten and that was Bridgwater British Cellophane - it was very short lived flow of rail traffic March 1988 to March 1994 - there must have been considerable expense incurred, because pukka discharge pipes were installed on the internal works railway parallel with the Bristol Taunton mainline - oil trains were formed of either TTA tank wagons or bogie tank wagons. The rail borne traffic replaced coastal shipping which used to come to Dunball Wharf, a few miles away from Bridgwater and then by pipeline. My father (who also worked on the railways) had a colleague in BR Petroleum business who had done the deal; to secure the traffic. The traffic was the last rail freight flow to the British Cellophane Works at Bridgwater - the caustic soda in tank wagons ceased in July 1991. As a keen young railwayman I went and phoned the first train - which was 150 minutes late! Class 47s and 37s used to work the traffic. Would have been a good modelling subject, with the sites class 03 shunter used to shunter oil and caustic soda traffic. A few of my pix I took in the 1988 when the first oil train ran (from Thameshaven are included). Regards P 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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