16t minerals

[Metr0Land]

 

BWR056 - Birmingham Snow Hill by BarkingBill, on Flickr

 

 

Nice variation for modelling, French one, 'normal' one, slope sided - and that's just the first 3 wagons

[26power]

As far as the eye can see .... Colour view of a long train passing Pitstone cement works, near Tring, on a misty day in September 1964, so the caption says:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rgadsdon/8385744549/in/set-72157624322947536

 

Usual apologies if we've had before!

[jjnewitt]

Nice variation for modelling, French one, 'normal' one, slope sided - and that's just the first 3 wagons

 

The second one is a riveted 1/105 or 1/109. The fourth is an LNER (1/103) type. The first 'normal' one is the fith. The sixth looks to be a wooden 13T. Plenty of variation. Who said all 16T minerals were the same!

 

Justin 

[Michael Delamar]

40062 SWINDON by tees_yd, on Flickr

[TheSignalEngineer]

The second one is a riveted 1/105 or 1/109. The fourth is an LNER (1/103) type. The first 'normal' one is the fith. The sixth looks to be a wooden 13T. Plenty of variation. Who said all 16T minerals were the same!

 

Justin 

That was around my trainspotting heyday at Snow Hill. Every trip and transfer freight had an interesting mix of traffic. There's a couple of minerals at the front of this trip caught up during the Bulleid Invasion in April 1963 http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrbsh1180.htm. If you want to know what a typical local freight looked like in the West Midlands at that time the Warwickshire Railways site has lots.

[TheSignalEngineer]

Tyseley 1958

 

http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrt2417.htm

 

http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrt2415.htm

Edited December 9, 2013 by TheSignalEngineer

[62613]

 

40 0n freight passing goods shed by monobingboy1, on Flickr

 

This looks very 'Northern'. Where is it? My first thought was New Hey, but having seen Andy C's model, I don't think it could be.

[SHMD]

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I thought Morley but don't have clue really.

 

 

Kev.

[TheSignalEngineer]

It's Bingley according to another shot in the stream. That warehouse is still there I think, but the line is electrified and the Airevalley Road runs along the right side of the picture.

[PatB]

The pipe bridge/gantry is interesting and would be an easy to make and unusual model detail.

[johnw1]

Litchurch Lane 1974

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/11285335064/

[Michael Delamar]

Millerhill Retarder by b16dyr, on Flickr

[cheesysmith]

Thanks for showing that one. Found it quite funny, just what is needed to cheer me up.

[The Stationmaster]

 

 

Millerhill Retarder by b16dyr, on Flickr

 

 

There was a Shunter in Reading West Jcn yard many years ago who had just the right expression for a situation like that - 'that's p*ss*d on the chips'

[The Bigbee Line]

Very nice.

 

What is the tank wagon or is it a demountable tank next to it?

 

Pity the photographer seems to have been distracted by the XP5 in the back ground.

Yes Clive, it's a shame when photographers get distracted by locomotives........

[Michael Delamar]

Derailment, good colour shot useful for weathering.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/95062750@N04/11486918345/

[Clive Mortimore]

Derailment, good colour shot useful for weathering.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/95062750@N04/11486918345/

I didn't think anyone was watching me shunting on my layout yesterday

[Michael Delamar]

Couple of cupboard door types at Sandy in 1963.

 

http://railonline.zenfolio.com/p129376112/h2b9fbf3f#h2b9fbf3f

 

http://railonline.zenfolio.com/p772381711/h35ad9133#h35ad9133

 

http://railonline.zenfolio.com/p129376112/h39ce5aa8#h39ce5aa8

 

 

and hauled by an A4

http://railonline.zenfolio.com/p939198651/h179c1b76#h179c1b76

[Fat Controller]

Couple of cupboard door types at Sandy in 1963.

 

http://railonline.zenfolio.com/p129376112/h2b9fbf3f#h2b9fbf3f

 

http://railonline.zenfolio.com/p772381711/h35ad9133#h35ad9133

 

http://railonline.zenfolio.com/p129376112/h39ce5aa8#h39ce5aa8

 

 

and hauled by an A4

http://railonline.zenfolio.com/p939198651/h179c1b76#h179c1b76

What are those wagons carrying? The lumps look a bit too consistently large, and 'matt' to be coal, and it looks to be going north (I presume the line the Black 5 was on crossed the main line on that flyover in the distance, before heading off to Bedford).

In the third photo, a diesel is visible in the mid-distance; to my ageing eyes, this looks as though it might be a 33. What do others think?

[Metr0Land]

 

 

and hauled by an A4

http://railonline.zenfolio.com/p939198651/h179c1b76#h179c1b76

 

My layout is a bit fluid 1956-62 - nice to see the wooden bodied wagon in the consist with the A4 still very much active in 1963

[Metr0Land]

What are those wagons carrying? The lumps look a bit too consistently large, and 'matt' to be coal, and it looks to be going north (I presume the line the Black 5 was on crossed the main line on that flyover in the distance, before heading off to Bedford).

In the third photo, a diesel is visible in the mid-distance; to my ageing eyes, this looks as though it might be a 33. What do others think?

 

I think the diesel is what would now be a Class 26 - some worked the GN routes until migrating north.

[Fat Controller]

I think the diesel is what would now be a Class 26 - some worked the GN routes until migrating north.

That had been my first thought; that or their younger sisters who worked on the Southern end of the Midland, but the centre window appears to be full-depth. There was one BRC&W Type 3 working on the ECML at the time, I believe; the Cliffe- Uddingstone cement train.

[Clive Mortimore]

What are those wagons carrying? The lumps look a bit too consistently large, and 'matt' to be coal, and it looks to be going north (I presume the line the Black 5 was on crossed the main line on that flyover in the distance, before heading off to Bedford).

In the third photo, a diesel is visible in the mid-distance; to my ageing eyes, this looks as though it might be a 33. What do others think?

Hi Brian

 

The train is going towards Bedford. The load, if it is coal, if so where is it from? All the coal trains I saw at Bedford, including the ones to Goldington power station, which was on the LNWR line to Sandy, came from the Wellingborough direction southwards. All the coal trains I saw at Sandy came from the Peterborough direction.

 

There was a time in the 70s when some of the coal for Goldington was delivered by lorry. This had been landed at Cliff Quay power station (Ipswich) and trundled across East Anglia, I was working for the CEGB at the time and was in the apprentice training centre at Cliff Quay and use to get a lift home to Goldington in one of the lorries on Friday night. Cliff Quay was not rail connected so coal being transported from there by train seems unlikely.

 

If not coal, what type of large lump material was quarried in East Anglia?

 

It is a BRCW Type 3 not a Type 2, all the Type 2s had been exiled north of Hadrian's Wall by 1963.

 

Edit...The lumps are far too big for power station coal.

Edited December 27, 2013 by Clive Mortimore

[Fat Controller]

Hi Brian

 

The train is going towards Bedford. The load, if it is coal, if so where is it from? All the coal trains I saw at Bedford, including the ones to Goldington power station, which was on the LNWR line to Sandy, came from the Wellingborough direction southwards. All the coal trains I saw at Sandy came from the Peterborough direction.

 

There was a time in the 70s when some of the coal for Goldington was delivered by lorry. This had been landed at Cliff Quay power station (Ipswich) and trundled across East Anglia, I was working for the CEGB at the time and was in the apprentice training centre at Cliff Quay and use to get a lift home to Goldington in one of the lorries on Friday night. Cliff Quay was not rail connected so coal being transported from there by train seems unlikely.

 

If not coal, what type of large lump material was quarried in East Anglia?

 

It is a BRCW Type 3 not a Type 2, all the Type 2s had been exiled north of Hadrian's Wall by 1963.

 

Edit...The lumps are far too big for power station coal.

It might be coal from Kent; I know that Kent coal was sent northwards to various coking plants and steelworks in later years, so perhaps this was an early example? I can't think of anything from East Anglia itself that would look like that- it almost looks like lumps of lignite, but I can't think of any origin for that, or for any reason for it being there.

[Michael Delamar]

that was a class 33.

 

This is a nice shot..

 

92046: 12 years old, too young to die by Alastair Wood, on Flickr