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Agreed for the second one. The train of sheeted 16-tonners looks as though it's loaded with something bulky like sugar beet.

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Don't think these have been put up before.

From the NRM, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) licence

 

The sheeted 16 tonners from the lot modified for raw sugar:

post-508-0-87489900-1431185445.jpg 

 

...and I'll bet my bottom dollar that's Denso Tape he's using to seal the sugar in:

post-508-0-59271000-1431185479.jpg

 

and sugar beet:

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http://www.nrm.org.uk/ourcollection/photo?group=Liverpool%20Street&objid=1995-7233_LIVST_FT_274

 

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I don’t recall seeing a 16T in the consist of a weed-killing train before

7586204488_9979d5aca0_z.jpg4657,7840 at Staines 9th May 80. by 54A South dock, on Flickr

 

162238669_fe647d1065_b.jpgEtruria Stoke Staffordshire November 1973 by loose_grip_99, on Flickr

 

7183737102_f3a91cb94e_z.jpg1055 at Norwood jcn on the 09.55 (as l remember) Acton-Norwood jcn.17th July 74. by 54A South dock, on Flickr

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I'd venture to say that the Staines photo wasn't a weed-killer train, but a mixed freight conveying vehicles from one. Also visible are two sheeted coil carriers and two Class A tanks, which appear still to be in use carrying fuel (the ones used in the weed-killer trains were usually prominently branded as water-carriers). I'd suggest it was a service between the WR and either Eastleigh or Hoo Jct.

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You can't always, it depends on whether the author has set it up for sharing on Flickr.  If s/he hasn't then you can only copy the link. 

 

If they've set up something called BBC Code (no I don't know what it stands for either) then you copy the BBC code and insert that into the message on here.  By the magic of computing the BBC code goes away and fetches the picture to display on here.  (Am cooking the Head of Household's tea so will try and do a 'how to' later unless someone beats me to it.

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