D1059 Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Found this shot on Flickr of Presflos being unloaded at Whitlingham Junction in 1976 https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-pelican-railways/8228051560 Check out the lorry - it looks like it is acting as a portable compressor with the equipment located in an old van body mounted on the back of the lorry I can remember wagons in the sidings, but I never saw a locomotive in there Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Found this shot on Flickr of Presflos being unloaded at Whitlingham Junction in 1976 https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-pelican-railways/8228051560 Check out the lorry - it looks like it is acting as a portable compressor with the equipment located in an old van body mounted on the back of the lorry I can remember wagons in the sidings, but I never saw a locomotive in there I'd seen photos of a small, 4-wheel, compressor being used, but nothing on this scale. The storage container, to the rear of the lorry, looks interesting as well; it seems to be some sort of semi-trailer. I wonder what the project was that required such a facility? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1059 Posted October 15, 2014 Author Share Posted October 15, 2014 I don't know. I don't recall any large scale building work in the area. Neither can I recall exactly when the yard ceased to be used. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 I don't know. I don't recall any large scale building work in the area. Neither can I recall exactly when the yard ceased to be used. Temporary terminals tended to be set up for large-scale civil-engineering projects, rather than something like a housing estate; perhaps there was a new road project, or a near-by 'RAF' station was getting new runways/blast shelters or similar? On the western side of the UK, they tended to be for reservoir projects, but I doubt there are many dams in the area of the photo.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1059 Posted October 15, 2014 Author Share Posted October 15, 2014 Temporary terminals tended to be set up for large-scale civil-engineering projects, rather than something like a housing estate; perhaps there was a new road project, or a near-by 'RAF' station was getting new runways/blast shelters or similar? On the western side of the UK, they tended to be for reservoir projects, but I doubt there are many dams in the area of the photo.. Thanks. Road building was what I meant, but there was very little around Norwich in that time period. The only scheme I can think of was the Cringleford bypass, but that was 1975 so already completed. Also, Norwich Victoria would have been a much more logical place to put a temporary terminal for that as unloading at Whitlingham would have meant taking all the cement right through the city to reach the work site. The nearest RAF base at the time was RAF Coltishall which is a possibility. ISTR there was office accommodation here as well, not just portacabins, maybe it was a general railhead for cement rather than a temporary one ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted October 15, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 15, 2014 Several airfields in East Anglia got new blast shelters in the 1970s, so that would be a possibility for a large user of cement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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