RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2014 I may be wrong but behind the B vans is the "wavy" outline of a car carrier. don't know if it is a cartic but there is something there. I've tried to Bingit, http://binged.it/1eZ0FcP Weed killer train? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titan Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 There is this Mk1 at Looms scrapyard Derby. Been there since before 1990: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=52.914074,-1.419074&spn=0.000647,0.001206&t=h&z=20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Summerisle Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 (edited) The wagons at Diss have now gone, there was a mineral wagon at Whittlesford for a while. There was also a 4 wheel van at Norwich station for a long time, as well as a departmental 'staff training coach' that was in intercity livery, and I believe was used as a testbed for Anglia livery. I would have thought the wagon at Snape Maltings might hold some sort of record, I believe it was refurbished for the opening of the concert hall by the Queen in 1967! Edited January 20, 2014 by Lord Summerisle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
40044 Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 A slight deviation... If you follow the link that Andi gives, there is a large shed in the foreground (Barking Storage?)- on the opposite side of that to the yard are a pair of sidings in a fenced-off area, with two large tractor-shovels being used to handle what looks to be coal. Does anyone know what that traffic might be? It's definitely being used to load wagons, not unload them, as this type of machine would be no use in unloading wagons. Coal from Tilbury Power Station, roaded to Barking then it went by rail to Didcot. This was a couple of years ago now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peak experience Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 there was a dogfish and a weltrol at guide bridge until very recently... they must have been there decades. i passed that way a few months back and was sad to see they had been removed. i wonder if they were cut up on site? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim H Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 The derailed well wagon written off in the 1987 collision at Tavistock Junction is still there according to Google Earth https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Plymouth,+United+Kingdom&hl=en&ll=50.38935,-4.069794&spn=0.000239,0.00066&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.826758,86.572266&oq=plymouth&t=h&hnear=Plymouth,+United+Kingdom&z=21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
floss_4 Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Already covered in other threads but 2x bogie tanks at Ponsandane Penzance (for 20+ years?) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim H Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Already covered in other threads but 2x bogie tanks at Ponsandane Penzance (for 20+ years?) Longer than that - they were there in 1988! Aren't they used for fuel storage? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted January 20, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 20, 2014 The derailed well wagon written off in the 1987 collision at Tavistock Junction is still there according to Google Earth https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Plymouth,+United+Kingdom&hl=en&ll=50.38935,-4.069794&spn=0.000239,0.00066&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.826758,86.572266&oq=plymouth&t=h&hnear=Plymouth,+United+Kingdom&z=21 Was still there when I went past before Christmas (well at least I thought I saw it). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted January 21, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2014 I wonder if the tank wagon is still behind Aberystwyth shed? Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sn Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 For years there was a MR (not LMS) box van in the yard in st Helens Shaw st. Still there as late as perhaps 88 when it was cut up. Also seem to remember 2 oe 3 very old wagons stationary for years in the BICC siding at Prescot too. I remember seeing in Belgium a line of vans which had been there so long in a siding that trees with trunks 3 or 4 inches wide had grown right through them! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrel Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 There is the wring train sitting outside the Network Rail yard at Portabello. There is a tank wagon(45158), a burnt out break van(B954479), a SPA(460951), and a van(096053/B783686) in an old yard just outside Shettleston. There is also meant to be a flat wagon at Cleland station with a tree in it + some mermaids down the side of the bank at Glen Falloch . I was going to mention the ones in shettleston down yard but I didn't know the numbers. There is another wagon looks like a pipe wagon on the other side of the line in the up yard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 At Three Bridges there is a GUV used for station cleaning materials suronded by bushes on one side of the loading dock oposite platform1. However the points giving access to the rest of the network were lifted decades ago and the vehicle itself is so surrounded by trees and Buddleia, etc you wouldn't know it is actually sitting an rails. Still there, not the best of pictures, (understatement of the year!!) Only had camera phone, wasn't expecting to be there! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Try this LMS CCT at Leeman Road it has stood for over twenty years! Does anyone know its identity as almost all trace of Lettering has been lost to the elements? Mark Saunders Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike hughes Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Still there, not the best of pictures, (understatement of the year!!) Only had camera phone, wasn't expecting to be there! 2014-01-22 09.33.21s.jpg Very much looks like a BR CCT (looks to short to be a GUV) Michael Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
floss_4 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Longer than that - they were there in 1988! Aren't they used for fuel storage? They may have been but are well past it now. Hopefully they were emptied a long time ago. Vegetation and waste spoil have taken over most of the track work in the yard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Stanlow oil refinery sidings had Rail freight VDA van,when im next down there ile grab photo. its been there for years now.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadmill Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Used to be two wagons stored at a headshunt near the Hope Valley cement works that were there for an age. On the Manc-Sheff line. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 23, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 23, 2014 Two wagons went down the bank too and I'm not sure if they are still there in the undergrowth about 200yds Walsall side of the bridge. Andy the 2 down the bank, aka "badgers lunchbox", were finally removed when sutton park was resignalled a few years back Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroken1 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 The was an old bunt out shark van at Shotton paper plant sidings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium uax6 Posted January 24, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 24, 2014 There was (or if it still is it won't be for long) a hopper wagon in the undergrowth in the engineers sidings at Chesterton just north of Cambridge. It's days must be numbered as the whole site is going to become the Science Park Station... Andy G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted January 24, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 24, 2014 The was an old bunt out shark van at Shotton paper plant sidings. not a shark, but here it is back in about 2006, they used it when they had to propel the paper train over shotwick crossing 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted January 24, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 24, 2014 For many years after the Leeds London line was electrified there was a brake van abandoned on the 'Viaduct Line' that used to be the main approach line from London before Geldred road Junction ws removed in 1990 (I think). The line from the station onto the viaduct was electrified for several hundred yards to act as a stabling siding for mark IV sets until the line to Neville Hill was wired. The track was left in place as far as Geldered road and the brake van was parked near Domestic Street as a form of buffer stops. It gradually got smaller and ended up as a chassis with a brake column in the middle of it. It dissappeered around the Millennium when the connection and the track on the viaduct was lifted during the reconstruction of Leeds Station. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brake Compo Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 (edited) Literally dug up during the Northfleet project on the site of the old cripple sidings. ID anyone? (I wonder if it might not be the remains of one of the old quarry wagons - solebars look too unsubstantial for anything main line). Edited January 25, 2014 by Brake Compo 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Very sad to see that break van all burnt out like that,good photos Jim... cheers neil.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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