Fat Controller Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 I remember seeing a photo of some of the rather rare 13t hoppers at the loading bank next to the goods shed on the main line (Up side), just west of Liskeard station. Do any of the Meibion Kernow on here have any idea what this traffic might have been? Thanks in advance Brian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennine MC Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 Can't help, but similarly intrigued by odd vestigial quarry flows at this sort of period - as well as the shot in one of David Larkin's old Bradford Bartons, I think I've seen one or two pics elsewhere. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 There is a picture in 'Diesel Hydraulics in the West Country' (Huntriss & Gray) On page 21, dated 3/8/74, there are 5 empty hoppers in the dock siding, but no obvious evidence of the traffic. Also in 'Hydraulics in the West' (Cable) On page 36 dated November 1970, the goods shed is still there, there are 5 hoppers by the loading bank, 2 appear loaded with something light coloured, another 2 empty hoppers are in the short road. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Can't help, but similarly intrigued by odd vestigial quarry flows at this sort of period - as well as the shot in one of David Larkin's old Bradford Bartons, I think I've seen one or two pics elsewhere. Was that Larkins 1979 'BR Standard Freight Wagons' ? B400914 from Lot 2129 is pictured at Liskeard stencilled 'Iron Ore' (which it presumably is not), although elsewhere Larkin says that these wagons were also used for aggregate and limestone. In a blog from September 2011 asking about traffic in Plymouth in the 1960s there was a suggestion of 'rock' from Liskeard to Plymouth. The Liskeard and Caradon Railway was partly built to bring granite from Cheesewring Quarry, after it was closed by the GWR could some traffic have still come by road to Liskeard? I don't remember seeing pictures of that wagon type elsewhere in the west. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
R A Watson Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Just a guess, but the store here was used by agricultural merchants about then. Was it possibly the calcified seaweed from the wharves at Truro? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 11, 2011 Author Share Posted December 11, 2011 Thanks for that, chaps- it would seem to be some kind of rock. I have an inkling I may have seen the wagons myself on my one trip to Liskeard, which would have been summer, 1975. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennine MC Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Was that Larkins 1979 'BR Standard Freight Wagons' ?B400914 from Lot 2129 is pictured at Liskeard stencilled 'Iron Ore' (which it presumably is not), although elsewhere Larkin says that these wagons were also used for aggregate and limestone. It was indeed Kenny, and I've probably seen the other shots you mention whilst browsing books at shows. They were certainly used for ironstone in the '50s/60s and I've a feeling some of them were amongst the ragbag used in the early years of the Foster Yeoman traffics, so they could have moved on to the Liskead mystery trafic after that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Another resurrection of an ancient thread. While searching for something else (yet again), I found another shot with a hopper in it I believe, this time at Plymouth https://www.flickr.com/photos/96859208@N07/9709828157/ Does that look like an ironstone hopper at the rear of the train?, cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenBill Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Another resurrection of an ancient thread. While searching for something else (yet again), I found another shot with a hopper in it I believe, this time at Plymouth https://www.flickr.com/photos/96859208@N07/9709828157/ Does that look like an ironstone hopper at the rear of the train?, cheers Hi Rivercider, I would say yes (and also what a great photo...). And just about on topic: a recent mystery photo on the RCTS website taken possibly at Hapsford (Somerset) or Whatley Quarry shows several of these 13-ton hoppers along with what looks like a merry-go-round hopper. http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/show.htm?page=5&serial=85&img=WRD00258 Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 Hi Rivercider, I would say yes (and also what a great photo...). And just about on topic: a recent mystery photo on the RCTS website taken possibly at Hapsford (Somerset) or Whatley Quarry shows several of these 13-ton hoppers along with what looks like a merry-go-round hopper. http://www.rcts.org.uk/features/mysteryphotos/show.htm?page=5&serial=85&img=WRD00258 Bill I'd go for the BR 13t hopper, not an iron-ore one. They worked out of Mells Road/ Whatley in pre-air-braked days; such stone traffic that was sent from there travelled in a motley set of stock. The air-braked hoppers, apparently in internal use, have appeared in another set of photos from there; I've no idea why they ended up, seemingly abandoned, so early in their life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Another resurrection of an ancient thread. While searching for something else (yet again), I found another shot with a hopper in it I believe, this time at Plymouth https://www.flickr.com/photos/96859208@N07/9709828157/ Does that look like an ironstone hopper at the rear of the train?, cheers Brilliant old pictures of North Road station!. Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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