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I am planning a small industrial layout. The main part of which would be a rail served timber processing plant, raw materials (chipped wood, raw timber) in and finished products (chipboard and plywood) out. The layout would be set in the UK 1975-1990. What sort of rolling stock apart from the obvious OTA's would be required? The layout will be a compact one and an OTA would be about the largest wagon possible.

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Railway owned VGA vans, ( or hired in VTG bogie vans ) to distribute the sheet products e.g. ply, MDF or laminate flooring ?.

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Tank wagons to bring in the resins used for bonding the woodchips etc together during the manufacturing processes.

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Brian R

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I'm pretty sure cargowaggons of either the bogie or twin type have been used to import chip via the channel tunnel to barrow or Workington? In the past for a paper mill there, no idea how its loaded into them though, large bags, be a bit messy otherwise!

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I'm pretty sure cargowaggons of either the bogie or twin type have been used to import chip via the channel tunnel to barrow or Workington? In the past for a paper mill there, no idea how its loaded into them though, large bags, be a bit messy otherwise!

Chris

Thats handy as they can be used to take away finished products. The only problem is that it is a micro layout and finding room to fit even a single Cargowaggon in. :scratchhead:

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Thanks Brian. What sort of wagons would be used for bringing in wood chip?

 

Logs, brought in by OTA would be the most likely.

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However, it's your layout so why not have a short term hire with someone to bring wood chips in in box wagons ?

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Brian R

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I'm pretty sure cargowaggons of either the bogie or twin type have been used to import chip via the channel tunnel to barrow or Workington? In the past for a paper mill there, no idea how its loaded into them though, large bags, be a bit messy otherwise!

Chris

Iggesund at Workington and Kimberley Clark at Barrow both received wood pulp (not woodchip) in cargowaggons.

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