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Ok chaps and chapesses, something for the weekend. Is this a 16T in near-BR blue sneaking into these pics? I can't seem to find any other pics online to give a better view whether in colour or B&W

 

7826057228_3a7f85b675_z.jpg1979-09-29 Tees & Hartlepool Dock Authority No2 (RSH Newcastle 1959) Middlesbrough Docks by John Carter, on Flickr

7826053278_e1fd4f1958_z.jpg1979-09-29 Tees & Hartlepool No.2 (RSH Newcastle 1959) Middlesbrough Docks by John Carter, on Flickr

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Ok chaps and chapesses, something for the weekend. Is this a 16T in near-BR blue sneaking into these pics? I can't seem to find any other pics online to give a better view whether in colour or B&W

 

7826057228_3a7f85b675_z.jpg1979-09-29 Tees & Hartlepool Dock Authority No2 (RSH Newcastle 1959) Middlesbrough Docks by John Carter, on Flickr

7826053278_e1fd4f1958_z.jpg1979-09-29 Tees & Hartlepool No.2 (RSH Newcastle 1959) Middlesbrough Docks by John Carter, on Flickr

 

internal user wagons at Teesport were in a powder blue http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/teesport http://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/teesport/e1feedda1

 

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From this topic, there is a link to a film featuring Whitemoor Yard in 1963.

 

At 08:28 to approximately 08:48 there is a 9F moving a rake of 16t minerals with what looks like signboards on their side. I haven't seen anything like that before, and I don't believe that it has been mentioned in this thread. I'm not able to make out what is written on the boards, does anyone know?

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From <a href="http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/130589-whitemoor-yard-1963-film/">this topic</a>, there is <a href="http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/205507">a link</a> to a film featuring Whitemoor Yard in 1963.

 

At 08:28 to approximately 08:48 there is a 9F moving a rake of 16t minerals with what looks like signboards on their side. I haven't seen anything like that before, and I don't believe that it has been mentioned in this thread. I'm not able to make out what is written on the boards, does anyone know?

 

They're presumably subject to some sort of experimental fitting, it isn't immediately clear (to me) what. These are fitted minerals - note the triangular marking showing the location of the cord to release the vacuum on the doors - and from the odd colour picture I've seen, the panels would have been yellow. On the rare occasion I've been able to read the lettering on pictures, experiments included a particular type of instanter and disc brake fittings. There were presumably plenty more.

 

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They're presumably subject to some sort of experimental fitting, it isn't immediately clear (to me) what. These are fitted minerals - note the triangular marking showing the location of the cord to release the vacuum on the doors - and from the odd colour picture I've seen, the panels would have been yellow. On the rare occasion I've been able to read the lettering on pictures, experiments included a particular type of instanter and disc brake fittings. There were presumably plenty more.

Dowty Auto Couplers, Vac fitted and Dowty buffers too. Those that were tested on the North Eastern & Scottish Regions had a different style of branding but as Adam says, black writing on yellow panels.

 

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Here's a link to some photos of these wagons in later years:-

http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brmineralwestinghouse

 

Which Wagons? Not the Experimental Dowty autocoupler type. They were drawn from different builders and lot numbers from the 1957 build program. They retained their vac brakes which also auto connected between wagons, the vacuum connector being integral within the coupling mechanism.

 

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Which Wagons? Not the Experimental Dowty autocoupler type. They were drawn from different builders and lot numbers from the 1957 build program. They retained their vac brakes which also auto connected between wagons, the vacuum connector being integral within the coupling mechanism.

 

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Sorry- these were a test build for Westinghouse air-brake with automatic self adjustment.

I have seen a photo somewhere of a Vanfit with an autocoupler- was that part of the Dowty trials?

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