Franco Crosti

It seems there was an oil terminal at Fraserburgh station, first owned by Young's, later BP.

https://www.scottishshale.co.uk/places/depots/fraserburgh-oil-depot/

Good point, oil rather than whisky then! Do you think there might have been such a traffic to Fraserburgh as well?

There's a photo on page 47 of 'Railways of Buchan', dated August 1950, showing an ex-LMS 2P, still in 'Big Four' livery, hauling a goods train. 

Most wagons are vans, with a few opens, a low sided wagon and a container on a flat wagon, but further back there's a tank wagon, that looks like a 12t or 14t type.

Does anyone know what traffic this would have been and which company was involved?  The photo describes the location as near Maud, so I can't tell if the wagon is to or from Fraserburgh or Peterhead.

27 minutes ago, Nearholmer said:

Interesting photo!

 

Was this a commercial terminal, or some sort of government/military terminal pre-WW2?

I haven't found any reference to it on the Internet, so perhaps that information is in local record offices or railway board minutes.  I don't know if a government/military terminal would have been more secure than appears here.  It also seems to pre-date the Earley power stations.

Here's a cracking view from 1965 showing the entrance to the sidings with Maunsell U Class sandwiched between some vans and Shell BP tankers.

https://www.anistr.com/media/8413709d-29b2-4d16-a57e-4ef4f4e69d4b-31799-earley

11 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

Could you post a link or item number?

 

My attempt to find it was a miserable failure!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251975586003?hash=item3aaaea50d3:g:ma8AAOSw3xJVZvAa

On 05/03/2020 at 07:53, Compound2632 said:

This traffic is both before my time (first commuting from Reading Feb 1994) and after my period of interest (pre-Grouping) but can anyone say when this traffic began?

Having just found this topic, I can say there's a postcard on eBay showing tankers at Earley and no conductor rail on the main line, so this was before WW2.  We seem to be looking at some time between 1932 and 1939.

No reason that they couldn't have worked as far as Greece, or anywhere else in Europe which used standard-gauge track, though whether they did is another matter. I have seen other BR Ferry vehicles in Italy, whilst someone saw a BR Ferry Van in what was then Yugoslavia.

The question as to which British ferry vehicles appeared in Italy has appeared on an Italian forum.  Can you remember which ones you saw?

http://www.forum-duegieditrice.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=99375