Cambrian Coast Line freight

[South Wiltshire Railway]

Hi there,

 

I am thinking to build an fictional station on the cambrian coast. Based around BR 1950's era as got alot of early BR logo locos I am quite limited for space what i can use i want to have an shed to based on something like the clay down in the south west, but i don't know what they use for freight not something like state or coal. I know in my area in Salisbury they had something like cotton wool industry but i actually wonder if the cambrian coast actually use cotton wool for transporting into freight into London for example?

 

Does it?

 

Thanks

Tom

[Oldddudders]

Can't answer your question - but I do think you might get more learned responses in UK Prototype Questions, rather than Modelling matters.

[South Wiltshire Railway]

Ok thanks, so Mods can this be moved to UK Prototype Questions please?

[The Stationmaster]

By the 1950s I think the main flows were various inwards traffic in vans plus coal and almost certainly occasional agricultural machinery inwards. I'm not so sure on outwards traffic but there was probably some general freight loaded in vans and maybe (but I'm far from sure on this) some agricultural produce and possibly even livestock. However the overwhelming impression I always got with what I saw of Cambrian freight in the early 1960s (from outside the fence) is that it was predominantly inwards.

 

(Rather later than your period but I do know of some outwards as I spent most of the afternoon on which England won the World Cup in 1966 loading 'military stores' into two Vanfits at Machynlleth after the school's CCF camp. Legitimately right next to an engine shed)

[Andy Kirkham]

By the 1950s I think the main flows were various inwards traffic in vans plus coal and almost certainly occasional agricultural machinery inwards. I'm not so sure on outwards traffic but there was probably some general freight loaded in vans and maybe (but I'm far from sure on this) some agricultural produce and possibly even livestock. However the overwhelming impression I always got with what I saw of Cambrian freight in the early 1960s (from outside the fence) is that it was predominantly inwards.

 

One outward traffic would have been explosives from the factory at Penrhyndeudraeth.

[hmrspaul]

 

 

One outward traffic would have been explosives from the factory at Penrhyndeudraeth.

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Wouldn't there be quarry and slate traffic at that time?

 

Paul Bartlett

[Guest Phil]

One outward traffic would have been explosives from the factory at Penrhyndeudraeth.

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Wouldn't there be quarry and slate traffic at that time?

 

Paul Bartlett

 

There were slate transfer wharves at Minffordd where slate was transferred from FR slate wagons to BR opens, which I believe were packed with straw to avoid breakages.

 

Penrhyndeudraeth did see GPVs empty inbound and loaded outbound, as well as barrier wagons, and I guess coal and stores too.

 

Also domestic coal traffic and seasonal beet / fertilizer / slag for Portmadoc, Criccieth and Pwllheli, as well as Harlech, Barmouth and Tywyn in the other direction. Tywyn would have been Towyn in those days.

[Guest Phil]

This is a "pres" view of Minffordd yard but gives you an idea ;

 

 

How about a 16 tonner being emptied in the 1960s ?

 

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5260/5537183597_bcd817f224_z.jpg

 

A tiny 1960s image of Minfford showing a two car Park Royal unit standing over the turnout into Minfford yard.

 

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5334/7180946155_9ff2c4b9de_m.jpg

 

I guess this fits your timeframe though ;

 

[Andy Kirkham]

There were slate transfer wharves at Minffordd where slate was transferred from FR slate wagons to BR opens, which I believe were packed with straw to avoid breakages.

 

 

I've an idea that after slate traffic ceased on the FfR in 1946, slate continued to be brought by road from Blaenau to Minffordd for transshipment onto the WR.