Mark Saunders Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 12 hours ago, russ p said: Is that what those ones with buckeyes that were in the west end were for? I never saw any of the ones for Consett but there was the pair of ex South Wales ones that lived at Ferryhill for use with the Ravenscraig tipplers in the dolofines movement. These were there long enough to receive metal sector livery! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted June 29, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 29, 2021 8 hours ago, Mark Saunders said: I never saw any of the ones for Consett but there was the pair of ex South Wales ones that lived at Ferryhill for use with the Ravenscraig tipplers in the dolofines movement. These were there long enough to receive metal sector livery! I'm now starting to wonder if they were the ones , I'm sure I remember a pair in the old tranship yard 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 (edited) ex-LMS S&T KDM 731399 ZTO brake van at Chester by Arnie Furniss Edited June 29, 2021 by montyburns56 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 29, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 29, 2021 1 hour ago, montyburns56 said: ex-LMS S&T KDM 731399 ZTO brake van at Chester by Arnie Furniss I take it the ends are yellow only faded? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 I’ve also got a photo of that one. With a wooden nameplate ‘Bertie’. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 8 hours ago, eastwestdivide said: I’ve also got a photo of that one. With a wooden nameplate ‘Bertie’. Yeah, it does say on the Flickr picture that it was called Bertie the Brakevan! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 PDA Ardwick 1986 by Huw Millington I can't work out if this is just being unloaded or if it's being used as temporary storage silo? 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Green too Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Looks like the wheel treads are pretty rusty ......... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Bendall Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 28 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: PDA Ardwick 1986 by Huw Millington I can't work out if this is just being unloaded or if it's being used as temporary storage silo? It was a long-term static store. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 On 27/06/2021 at 19:33, montyburns56 said: Not odd in itself, but according to Paul Bartlett's site they were owned by Procor hence the markings, used as Match wagons and coded as PXQ. Hi Monty, Here are some similar conversions of ex LMS vans for use as coupling conversion wagons for the Merseyrail 507's: Gibbo. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 I can offer this photo of HEA 361798 at the RTC in Derby on 11 Aug 1983 with experimental modified suspension. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 This is what happens when your chassis and tank builders don't talk to each other.... Clyde Cement PDA at Preston 1986 by Steven Clements 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmrspaul Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 23 hours ago, montyburns56 said: PDA Ardwick 1986 by Huw Millington I can't work out if this is just being unloaded or if it's being used as temporary storage silo? It was out of gauge, although did move between Ardwick and Barrington. https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/rc11900/ Paul 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 10 hours ago, Poor Old Bruce said: I can offer this photo of HEA 361798 at the RTC in Derby on 11 Aug 1983 with experimental modified suspension. Not a mod’ but one of the experimental suspension HBA’s there was also English Steel Pedestal and Gloucester Pedestal ones produced! This one was used in aggregate traffic with PGA’s. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Machynlleth Depot 1980s 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo675 Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 26 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: Machynlleth Depot 1980s Hi Monty, I wonder if those frames were originally broad gauge and converted to standard gauge before havng tanks mounted upon them ? Gibbo. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 5, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Gibbo675 said: Hi Monty, I wonder if those frames were originally broad gauge and converted to standard gauge before havng tanks mounted upon them ? Gibbo. Standard gauge former tender frames perhaps? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 11 hours ago, PhilJ W said: Standard gauge former tender frames perhaps? As I understand it, early LNWR and used as a basis for building a loco. Was it the 'Bloomer' which once stood outside Milton Keynes station? 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 22 hours ago, Gibbo675 said: Hi Monty, I wonder if those frames were originally broad gauge and converted to standard gauge before havng tanks mounted upon them ? Gibbo. Possibly. The buffer beam does seem overly wide. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 (edited) Poor Old Bruce has already got the correct answer, they are LNWR tenders. Look at this model on the London Road website, http://traders.scalefour.org/LondonRoadModels/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/LOCO19SDc.jpg Here's the one that's in Milton Keynes. Now moved elsewhere in the town. Photo Martin Addison Jason Edited July 6, 2021 by Steamport Southport 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 Here's the data for the two other survivors. For some reason they haven't got details of the Milton Keynes one. http://www.ten.rhrp.org.uk/tens/TenderInfo.asp?Ref=450 http://www.ten.rhrp.org.uk/tens/TenderInfo.asp?Ref=405 And the C&HP one which had a square tank. http://www.ten.rhrp.org.uk/tens/TenderInfo.asp?Ref=248 Jason 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
montyburns56 Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 I've previously highlighted the pocket wagons that carried Blue Circle HGV trailers, but apparently they also carried Milk tankers! Penrith - Cricklewood Milkliner 1997 By DeanM66a By Gordon Edgar By Dave McDigital 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Bendall Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 33 minutes ago, montyburns56 said: I've previously highlighted the pocket wagons that carried Blue Circle HGV trailers, but apparently they also carried Milk tankers! These are different wagons, originally used for Pedigree petfoord traffic from Melton Mowbray. DRS used some for a month-long milk trial but only one was loaded. Charterail 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2021 Also using old tender frames were the special brake vans used in Folkestone. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trog Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 17 hours ago, Steamport Southport said: Poor Old Bruce has already got the correct answer, they are LNWR tenders. Look at this model on the London Road website, http://traders.scalefour.org/LondonRoadModels/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/LOCO19SDc.jpg Here's the one that's in Milton Keynes. Now moved elsewhere in the town. Photo Martin Addison Jason We got some really funny looks from the commuters while we were putting the track in for that, and a couple of trays of beer cans from the mayor of Milton Keynes. I think what the track was going to be for was a secret so we were not allowed to explain why we were laying track in the middle of the station square. The nearest place we could have the ballast delivered to was an empty site over by the nearby Indian restaurant. I had hired in a 4 ton dumper with road use insurance as not having a railway proficiency card for a dumper I would not have been covered by BR's internal insurance arrangements. I then spent about three days happily driving the dumper around the station area, before what I was up to was spotted, and a driver with the appropriate competency card was sent out to do the driving for me. However as this man did not hold a normal driving licence, allowing him to drive the dumper on the road would have been just as wrong as me doing it but for different reasons. (This sort of madness happened all the time back in BR days.) Fortunately I had just collected the last of the ballast we needed when he arrived, so I simply had him drive the dumper ten feet onto a sheet of ply protecting the paving slabs and park it up. Before sending him back to his supervisor at Watford. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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