Narrow Gauge Jordan Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Hi all Can we make a list of every type of rail-served lineside industry, im sure we can think of some unusual ones. Heres some to get us started: Coal mine Power station Scrap yard Iron ore mine Fish docks/harbour Oil refinery Lets get a nice list going, it might just be inspiration for some new layouts. Thanks Jordan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frappington Jct Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Cement works Quarry Wagon works (?) Brewery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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34theletterbetweenB&D Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 For the chance to run a lot of SCV's, without needing an enormous space, a steel stockholder and fabricator is a good choice. The grinding wheel works was interesting as well for the variety of wagons. Hoppers, tankers and opens brought the feedstocks, vans carried most of the finished goods traffic. Makes more movements having to work empties in both directions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray M Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Small coal yards, Steel works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Treacle mine? Stewart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Almost endless possibilities, here are some real ones (mostly from East Anglia - hardly the most industrialised part of the UK). Cable manufacturer. Sleeper works. Brick works. Iron works. Slate transfer sidings. Chemical factory. Sugar refinery. Flour mill. Biscuit makers. Jam makers. Other minerals (tin, silver, gold, lead, etc.) Chocolate/confectionery makers. Gunpowder/explosives plant. Sand/ballast (belt/line). Nuclear siding. Pipe/tube makers. Distillery. Glue factory (don't tell Horsetan!). Tannery. Night soil disposal facility. Glassworks. Salt mine. Sawmill. Textile factory. Soap manufacturer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Coking Plant Tar Distillers Fabrication Plant Heavy Electrical Engineers General Engineers Rolling Mills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnEntropyBubble Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Pulp mill Paper plant Smelter Transload Facility Gas Plant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 17, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 17, 2014 Ship breakers/scrap yard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 For the chance to run a lot of SCV's, without needing an enormous space, a steel stockholder and fabricator is a good choice. The grinding wheel works was interesting as well for the variety of wagons. Hoppers, tankers and opens brought the feedstocks, vans carried most of the finished goods traffic. Makes more movements having to work empties in both directions. I always consider a brewery to be a good rail-served industry to have on a layout, because there are various raw materials to be shipped in and plenty of covered wagons needed for the beer that is sent out. You can make up your own trip workings for local deliveries and have plenty of shunting going on if there is room in the brewery sidings modelled. Plus a relevant backscene can suggest a larger area of buildings behind the 'live' part. I presume the brewery 'waste' was utilised in some way - farming? But I have no idea how that was transported - open wagons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted September 17, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 17, 2014 Malt house, they weren't always at the site of a brewery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Sugar Mill (particularly up in Queensland) Housing developments (I remember seeing a picture in the back of a Model Rail which showed an LNER line up in a street to help with building) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sheep Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Confectionary (cadburys had their own rail system) Cereal (Kellogg's had their own system linked to the Trafford park system) Motor works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jongudmund Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Tile works (bit like a brick works I suppose) I know cattle were transported live, hence the cattle dock on the classic BLT, and there were also meat vans. Would abattoirs be served by a rail link? Otherwise how did meat get on the vans? Post / parcels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold nickwood Posted September 17, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 17, 2014 Not seen Cider mentioned. Bulmers in Hereford had a large rail yard in steam days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeOxon Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 For anyone interested in lineside industries and railway goods operations, there is a great website at http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/gansg/ I have no connection with the site,other than as a grateful user. Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted September 17, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 17, 2014 Broken biscuit repair factory. My previous narrow gauge layout had one! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 Another thread reminds me that Bryant and May had a factory near to Stratford [/true]. Their products were carried in match wagons*... Broken biscuit repair factory. My previous narrow gauge layout had one! We used to buy boxes of Peek Freans broken biscuits [/true]. The factory was served by trains worked by diesels of classes 44, 45 and 46*. (*Don't believe everything you read on RMweb!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted September 18, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18, 2014 Trains to my broken biscuit repair factory were hauled by a narrow gauge EWS class 68, scratchbuilt long before DRS thought of ordering some. Yes, I'm a serious railway modeller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 18, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18, 2014 Trains to my broken biscuit repair factory were hauled by a narrow gauge EWS class 68, scratchbuilt long before DRS thought of ordering some. Yes, I'm a serious railway modeller. Until Kit Kat took them over and closed the factory down? (Have a break...). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 18, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 18, 2014 Another industry that comes to mind is the dairy industry. Creameries and bottling plants were often rail served. Milk and cream in (in tanks or churns) and finished products out (butter cheese etc.). I remember milk tankers being delivered to a bottling plant as late as the 1980's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11B Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 (edited) Not sure if you would class it as an industry as such, but.... There was the Whittingham Hospital Branch Line nr Preston, built to serve the new Whittingham Asylum, it convey coal and provisions for the hospital though it was to rank one of the most fascinating and anachronistic Victorian steam railways in the country. Ian Edited September 19, 2014 by 11B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 ...I know cattle were transported live, hence the cattle dock on the classic BLT, and there were also meat vans. Would abattoirs be served by a rail link? Otherwise how did meat get on the vans?... Bear in mind that with smaller labour costs in the past, manual transhipment of whole or half carcasses from a road vehicle into a rail vehicle was not such a problem. However, rail borne meat movement was one of the early wins for containerisation (the well known BR standard meat van was a redundant design as a result) and that rather implies to me that either or both the major abbatoirs and wholesale meat markets were not colocated with the railway. Needs some research for anyone interested. ...I presume the brewery 'waste' was utilised in some way - farming? But I have no idea how that was transported - open wagons? The malt residue went for cattle cake ( I suspect dried in sacks in vans), the spent hops were simply compost and went off as agricultural soil improver, sheeted over opens most likely, and the yeast sludge was what becomes Marmite. Peco never offered a Marmite van or tanker, so we can probably rule those out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted September 19, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2014 A couple of suggestions not mentioned so far. A crematorium/cemetery. A Transhipment shed 1/ - like the well known LNWR one, where goods were emptied out & consolidated into a smaller number of wagons, thus saving lots of almost empty wagons traversing the system. 2/ Going back further, a change of gauge version where goods had to transferred to/from the dreaded GWR Broad gauge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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