bazjones1711

Have a few of these to make  so look forward to your progress , some of the slabs on these wagons were virtually the length of the wagon ! ,

Looking great , I'll have to get all my information I have on various wagons that ran through Great Coates junction , here's a bit about SPA wagons 

Wagon label from a SPA wagon these worked from Grimsby to various places including BSC Panteg with semi finished stainless coil , there were forty wagon in the pool  fitted with three wooden cradles.
Pool 4151 assigned to Grimsby - various , imported coil.
460335,340,349,355,357,388,405,411,417,422,475,477,479,481,513,528,531,532,565,566
460576,591,595,646,661,673,690,701,705,747,808,854,940,990,1016,1039,1061,1071,1090,1094.
total 40

You have made a great job of modelling the junction , I've the pools for the BAA and BBA wagons somewhere , will post when I find them , again great location and modelling, that I hope to model myself one day.,

On 16/09/2021 at 12:56, Paul G said:

I've been looking at this as a potential to model myself recently. Interested to know if you ever built this? The above info on steel traffic very useful in addition to what I'd already managed to gleen.

Hello Paul ,

                    This location has a lot of potential and interest , one of those locations crying out to be modeled  , as for as building this as a layout i've not managed to make a start , maybe something in the future when i get some room  or make the junction more of a diorama  , although i bought all the track for it  , most of this has been used on other projects ,. I would expect the scenic section to be around 7ft long from the signal box to the road bridge , but probably in two sections as 7 ft too long to move around . I have done and continue to do plenty of research , if your interested i can post a list of the most of the steel  traffic , workings , wagons ( inc some of the pools ) etc..  that i have researched , you may be amazed by the amount of wagon types used over the years i intend to model ( 1988 - 1990's )

Regards Barrie

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This pic of the 08 and one wagon at the bottom was the inspiration for me, when I first found this pic didn't know where the location was , then having seen a photo of two class 20 on a railtour figured out where it was , have spent the last year researching the area hopefully one day soon I can start !

The coils were made many years ago, sprayed with humbrol polished steel paint , rust is real rust ! Just rub a old toothbrush with some water onto a rusty piece of metal and gently flick it on !he presto rust.Done a large pipe in a similar way will post pic at some time

Thanks br2975 ! Or rolley junior ! May bring my asw wagons to the Cardiff show , get building on those kits, see you on the 23rd

Baz

The wagon is based on the internal user wagons at aldwarke

Steelworks as per photos on Paul Bartlett web site, so the model is an interpretation of them . built out of plastruct strips with diy transfers and bogies are of some American bogie wagon from toy fair for 50p!as these were ho had to cut bogie in half and extend it, slab is 5mm PVC foam board, needs bit of finishing off though

Will try and get video of tippler and traverser in operation along with some more pics sometime soon.

Layout still needs bit of finishing off scenery wise, along with 3 tinsley named class 08. Wagons used on tippler are meo, mdv, htv and Hornby mso which will be done into bsc blue internal coal as per bsc Scunthorpe. Will also post the sctatchbuilt internal 70 ton slab wagon pics !

You have chosen a great location, full of atmosphere. Whilst not in regular use, it serves as a diversion for traffic out of the Immingham Docks complex when the usual line to Brocklesby is not available, so you may also consider coal and tank traffic as well as what you have detailed above. If I remember rightly, there was also a weekly train from Grimsby Dock which ran for a time with a class 60 pulling vans (maybe VGA but I stand to be corrected!). There were also a number of stored hoppers in one of the outer sidings which spent years there before being cut up on site. Despite living about five minutes drive away, only recently managed to travel through there by train, on the Humber Sceptre railtour. Good luck with your project! Nigel.

thank you all for your comments and info, will soon post some pics of  the items so far made for the layout. Regarding the VGA wagons your prob correct as i read somewhere that they worked with VAA ,VBA on the zinc block traffic to bloxwich so may look out for some cheap vans prob need about 5.

happy modelling