Sails Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 There is plenty of good info on here about steel works but what I cant find anywhere is how steel slabs were loaded/unloaded. Not much on the interweb either. I am assuming some sort of gantry crane would be a sensible option, anyone got any photos of slab handling area around BAA's? In my web searches, I came across this interesting Tata Steel document Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Handling might be by overhead crane, using either electro-magnets or large 'pinchers' , or by very large forklifts; Kibri do some of the latter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TravisM Posted December 4, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2018 There is plenty of good info on here about steel works but what I cant find anywhere is how steel slabs were loaded/unloaded. Not much on the interweb either. I am assuming some sort of gantry crane would be a sensible option, anyone got any photos of slab handling area around BAA's? In my web searches, I came across this interesting Tata Steel document Mark As part of the research regarding my portable layout depicting a portion of a steel works, I spoke to some people at Corby and steel slabs are hot rolled from the furnace and then lifted by overhead crane onto or off a suitable wagon. As the steel is still incredibly hot whilst in transit, all lifting was done with people as far away from the slabs as possible. I remember standing at Cardiff station and a steel slab train from Port Talbot to Llanwern rolled through in the pouring rain and the steam coming off the slabs was incredible. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 As part of the research regarding my portable layout depicting a portion of a steel works, I spoke to some people at Corby and steel slabs are hot rolled from the furnace and then lifted by overhead crane onto or off a suitable wagon. As the steel is still incredibly hot whilst in transit, all lifting was done with people as far away from the slabs as possible. I remember standing at Cardiff station and a steel slab train from Port Talbot to Llanwern rolled through in the pouring rain and the steam coming off the slabs was incredible. The BAA and BBA were designed to be loaded with hot product, hence the design of the flor for cooling? Mark Saunders 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 The BAA and BBA were designed to be loaded with hot product, hence the design of the flor for cooling? Mark Saunders Prior to that, there had been vac-fitted wagons with floors made of a steel and asbestos sandwich, used between Port Talbot and Llanwern. There is someone who posts on the South Wales Railways Facebook site who has posted photos of slab and coil handling at Port Talbot; I'll contact him to see if I can use some of his photos. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Prior to that, there had been vac-fitted wagons with floors made of a steel and asbestos sandwich, used between Port Talbot and Llanwern. There is someone who posts on the South Wales Railways Facebook site who has posted photos of slab and coil handling at Port Talbot; I'll contact him to see if I can use some of his photos. I think they were the Hot Coil rather than for slab! Does anyone have photographs of the Slab/Coil wagons loaded ? Mark Saunders Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sails Posted December 4, 2018 Author Share Posted December 4, 2018 One of the guys in my office, his father still works at Scunthorpe and I've asked the question. Hopefully get some photos in the near future. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cokebreeze Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 I searched for "Slab Handling Llanwern" "Slab Handling Ravenscraig" and "Slab Handling Scunthorpe" and it threw up several useful images. This is Scunthorpe. Phil 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 4, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2018 I think they were the Hot Coil rather than for slab! Does anyone have photographs of the Slab/Coil wagons loaded ? Mark Saunders Hot rolled coil from Port Talbot to Trostre and Velindre was loaded to wagons which had ordinary ballast on the metal floors and the coils were loaded eye-to-sky. Generally the centre of the coil was cherry red, sometimes hotter, when loaded at Port Talbot but the outside had already cooled to grey. It could be nice and cosy in winter riding in the brakevan at the rear of the hot coil trains as warm air was blown back from the coil as the train moved along 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon47603 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 (edited) At Tata's Port Talbot's Abbey Steel Works. Steel Slab's are loaded directly onto Wagons in the Slab Yard, by very large Forklift Trucks. Newly made slabs are transported around the Works by Giant Slab Carriers. In Fact I have managed to find the very machines and the company that operates them: http://www.runtech.ltd.uk/kress-carriers/ Best Wishes Simon Edited December 4, 2018 by simon47603 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.hill64 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Handling would not be by electromagnets. Steel is not ‘magnetic’ above about 700 degrees. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian daniels Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Take it this a slab carrier we saw in Scunthorpe on a brakevan tour. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37501 Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 I have an old Tele Rail / Rail Magazine video cassette which shows slabs being loaded onto BBA wagons in a shed at Lackenby. Sometime in the late 1980s as the train left behind a pair of 37s. The slabs were handled by electro magnet on an overhead traveling crane. They didn't appear to be hot during loading, no heat haze. John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jml Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 On 04/12/2018 at 13:46, Cokebreeze said: I searched for "Slab Handling Llanwern" "Slab Handling Ravenscraig" and "Slab Handling Scunthorpe" and it threw up several useful images. This is Scunthorpe. Phil Definitely not Scunthorpe that one mate.. In Scunthorpe slab is loaded out using a 52t fork lift truck with a magnet attachment. Handled while hot by cranes with dogs (tongs) and the kress slab carrier. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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