RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted September 19, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2014 Another thread reminds me that Bryant and May had a factory near to Stratford [/true]. Their products were carried in match wagons*... Where's the groan button! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted September 19, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 19, 2014 Why be specific? P.D.Hancock's famous freelance Craig & Mertonford layout of yesteryear had a large works simply identified as Peter Allans Processing Plant, without any indication of what was processed.... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted September 19, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2014 Broken biscuit repair factory. My previous narrow gauge layout had one! Banana sorting shed - throwing out the bent ones! Reminds me of a packaging factory I came across, where they packed batteries into those blister cards/packets. There was a big drum of packages, where the problem with them was that one or more battery was packed upside down. Not sure if someone sat there & ripped them out again, or they were tossed! But I was told they weren't allowed to be sold like that, as if it makes the slightest difference to the products usage. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Surely the electricity would run out of them if they were upside down? Hat, coat, kick up the #+¥+, gone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Traxson Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 (edited) Re post 24. I worked for a cattle food factory in the late 1960's near Burton-on-Trent and we had a plant that pressed out most of the liquid, and then dried, spent hops, which were then put through a mixer which added molasses and various other additives to make a soft cattle feed for ruminants. They were also milled and mixed with grain, mollasses and additives a used to make pelleted cattle food too. The factory was also rail connected, right alongside the Derby- Burton line, but by then I can only recall a couple of railway vans there and these ceased within a few months of my starting work there in late 1967. Phil T. Edited September 19, 2014 by Phil Traxson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
11B Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Just as a further thought Airports The Military Royal Mail Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Banana sorting shed - throwing out the bent ones! . There was a banana factory at Warminster, well that's what my Dad said it was. Geest or Fyffes had a facility there. And just down the way was REME, both rail served. What about a holiday camp ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Malt house, they weren't always at the site of a brewery Sorry, I know this is meant to be a serious thread, but... I understand there's a kit malt house ready for installation in northwest Hampshire. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 19, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 19, 2014 There was a banana factory at Warminster, well that's what my Dad said it was. Geest or Fyffes had a facility there. And just down the way was REME, both rail served. What about a holiday camp ? Bananas were imported 'green' and had to be ripened, this is why banana vans were steam heated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David C Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 As well as the Whittingham Hospital line, there were at least two others, both electrified. One was also in Lancashire (can't remember exactly where) whilst the other was in Sussex. This was the Hellingly railway, as modelled by Phil Parker of BRM fame. Paper has been mentioned: the Rev Peter Denny had incorporated at least two mills on the various incarnation's of his Buckingham branch, one at Buckingham itself (in its earlier days) and the other at Leighton Buzzard. He maintained that paper mills (like gasworks, which also appeared on his layouts) received and generated a lot of traffic. Prototypes: the huge complex at Sittingbourne supplying paper for Fleet Street had both standard and 2'6" gauge lines, part of the latter has been preserved. There were several others which were rail served, at least one of which had its own internal rail system (another Lancashire firm, if I remember correctly), whilst there were several mills near St Albans in Hertfordshire, which provided traffic for the local railways. One produced the Salvation Army's publication, the War Cry: this was (and may still be) printed weekly and and at one time was sold in vast numbers in pubs throughout the UK. There were also a great many sidings laid to extract timber, particularly during and shortly after WW1, under the auspices of the Board of Trade Timber Supply Department. Many of these were fed by temporary lines, some standard gauge although most were narrow gauge. A few were quite lengthy, notably in Scotland at Aviemore, Dornoch, Forres, Carr Bridge etc. They were often built and operated by the Canadian Forestry Corps. David C Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 20, 2014 The one you can't remember is High Royds. Just as well it wasn't called Emma Royds....Hat, Coat gone.............. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 20, 2014 (edited) Malt house, they weren't always at the site of a brewery Especially in Scotland where they supplied distilleries. How about Canal wharves? Peat cutting? When the reservoirs in Wales (and elsewhere) were being constructed some were served by rail links. In Egypt there were extensive narrow gauge lines through the sugar cane plantations, from where the cut cane was eventually transshipped to standard gauge wagons. Much now done by lorry. Keith Edited September 20, 2014 by melmerby Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted September 20, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 20, 2014 Peco never offered a Marmite van or tanker, so we can probably rule those out... I wouldn't be surprised if a Code 3 one appeared in Cartmel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted September 20, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 20, 2014 Beet to sugar factories. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted September 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 20, 2014 I wouldn't be surprised if a Code 3 one appeared in Cartmel. Was that from the sticky toffee pudding mine? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted September 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 20, 2014 Was that from the sticky toffee pudding mine? Don't forget Cumberland Rum Nicky (Becoming very rare these days) Produced in vast quantities in special facilities. Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Campaman Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Power Station Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 24, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 24, 2014 Power Station Complete with Greenpeace protesters? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveglew Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 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 Great site.....very useful for planning 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveglew Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 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 Great site.....very useful for planning Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazynitwit Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Cement distribution centre. Steel mill. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartynJPearson Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Plaster board works (East Leake, Nottinghamshire works takes calcium sulphate from Ratcliffe on Soar Power Station's sulphur dioxide scrubbers to manufacture plasterboard, far purer than mined gypsum) And, assuming the Hornby's R6825 wagon is prototypical, Christmas Present distribution. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexChem Posted December 11, 2017 Share Posted December 11, 2017 Car (and other vehicle) manufacturing facility Oil refinery (other chemicals) Compressed gases Permanent way manufacturing Building supplies - thinking concrete support beams etc. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
br2975 Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Here's my three pennyworth; . Anchor & chain proving house (Cardiff) Ice factory & cold stores (Cardiff) Sand wharves (Cardiff) Tool handle factory (Cardiff) Wooden box factory (Cardiff) Cymric Trading Co. Ltd. dealers in plant, locomotives and mining equipment (Waterhall Jct). Paper Mill, Breweries & Jam Factory (Ely Main Line) Gelatine manufacturer, P.Leiner (Treforest Trading Estate)- animal bones in open wagons imported via Cardiff Docks . Brian R Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffP Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Potato merchants were rail connected and many in Lincolnshire had narrow gauge lines serving the fields. PW yard is another and has anyone mentioned gasworks? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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