emac Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Was not sure where to put these but they may be of intrest to someone these are some world war II Faslane Port Wagon destination/Load Tickets In November 1940 Faslane was chosen to be Port No 1 Cairn Ryan would be Port No 2. Faslane had the advantage because the Gare Loch was deep enough to take large ships, olso it was close to the West Highland Railway at that time under the control of the LNER. The Faslane Branch was agreed with the LNER in April 1941 and construction of the branch began, together with provision of additional passing loops on the main line at Faslane Junction. The line was 3 miles long and dropped 180ft with gradients of 1/52 and 1/49. The 7 road exchange sidings were on a 1/148 gradient adjacent to the main line, and beyond them traffic to the port was operated by the Military. Rhu and Helensburgh upper gained additional sidings and there was a new marshalling yard at Ardmore which was cappble of holding 408 wagons and at Craigandoran exta sidings held 200 wagons these were completed by January 1942. Goods traffic on the West highland in 1938 had 26,743 wagons forwarded and received and in 1943 26,743 wagons were forwarded and received by 1944 this had increased to 65,961. A few examples of Wagon destination tickets (I think thats what they were called) to Faslane regards Eddie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted January 31, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 31, 2012 They look as if they are (all?) wagon labels. Possible exceptions are the two colliery labels. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Interesting stuff Eddie. I had a chance to read a book on the development of Faslane, and it contained many photos of wagons in the port. Sadly I can't recall the book title off hand. Offered a glimpse of a requisitioned Dean Goods in one shot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
emac Posted February 1, 2012 Author Share Posted February 1, 2012 Interesting stuff Eddie. I had a chance to read a book on the development of Faslane, and it contained many photos of wagons in the port. Sadly I can't recall the book title off hand. Offered a glimpse of a requisitioned Dean Goods in one shot. Jamie that sounds a good read will have see if I can root that out on the WWW eddie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Dug through endless google hits on the peace camp etc, found it: http://www.amazon.co...s/dp/075241657X Edit - think it's due a reprint, google also finds a similar title/author due to be published with a different cover. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Eddie Thanks, very interesting. It is hardly surprising wagons went missing, many of these are quite poorly prepared - date stamps not applied properly for example. The way the requisitioned ex Private Owner wagons are described is interesting - simply "PO and the written number". Other numbers give minimal indication of what the wagon is, Assuming 116070 is an open wagon it could easily be GWR, LNER or LMS, The total of wagons in some of the trains is also spectacular! 67. Paul Bartlett Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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