TEA bogie tanker weight?

[truckman060473]

I was just wondering about the label plate on the side of a Murco tank for example. It shows something like 76t / 24t tare. Could someone clarify if the oil cargo carried weighs 24 tons or is that the wagon weight and it actually carries 76 tons of oil? If so I have been wrong by thinking all along that it was a very heavy tanker and carries just 24 tons of liquid cargo. I just read somewhere about freight on the Lickey requiring a banker loco if over a certain weight, mentioning 1075 tons for a class 60. The empty Westerleigh to Linsey tanks would be way more than this if the 20 or so tanks weighed 76t each.

 

[ainsworth74]

24t tare means the weight of the vehicle empty so it's 24 tonnes empty and 76t maximum (at least I assume that is the maximum loaded weight).

 

[Old Timer]

24 tonne tare indicates the maximum empty weight of the wagon.

The 76 tonne indicates the load that can be conveyed, thus giving a Gross Loaded Weight (GLW) of 100 tonne, although I recall that these are actually weighed at 102 tonnes GLW.

 

[truckman060473]

Ah, right. So there is a vast difference between empty and full rakes then. It explains why, in the past, I used to sometimes see class 37's taking 20 or so empty TEA's down to Robeston, at a time when 47's were used to bring fully loaded TEA's up from Robeston with what I think was 11 or 12 in tow maximum. The 60's here, will handle 28 full tanks in contrast.