DarloRich
Veteran Member
I think there is still a ballast plough gaurds van at Tollerton between York & Thirsk
From this thread on RMWeb it appears they are ex Rover KSAs which have had their bogies removed for use elsewhere. Seems a bit a of a wast of good sidings tho.A surreal sight in Washwood Heath yard at the minute is a fair number of what I think are steel coil carriers parked sideways and shoulder to shoulder across the sidings: at a 90 degree angle to the direction that the sidings run. They cant be seen from passing trains because they are right at the back of the yard and hidden behind other wagon rakes, but travelling along the A47 Heartlands Parkway affords a good view. I couldnt believe my eyes when I first saw them. You have to wonder where they found the time and a crane powerful enough to swing them round to arrange them in such a way.
One waggon (freightliner hopper?) appeared in a loop on the Cambrian just south of Sutton Bridge Junction some months ago, and was still stood there when I last passed by. I'd like to know the poor little thing's story.
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Still there today!
Freightliner have regular flows up the Marches from Newport to Shrewsbury, round the curve towards Wolves. If a train gets a problem with a hot axle box etc it tends to run at slow speed to Sutton Bridge, then ditch the offending wagon in the siding by the start of the Cambrian line. I recall two of these that were there for months last year.
Presumably eventually they bung a skate under the offending axle and drag it back somewhere to be repaired.
Odd that they can afford to leave demic stock sat around for so long though. Passenger stock is usually rescued within hours or a day or two
Speaking of an abandoned hopper, there is an abandoned Bardon Aggregates hopper on the Chiltern line out of Marylebone near Neasden, you can see it from the Metropolitan line too. And there is a wagon on a siding on the GEML just after leaving Stratford going towards Liverpool Street, on the right by the cement works near the main road going underneath the railway.One waggon (freightliner hopper?) appeared in a loop on the Cambrian just south of Sutton Bridge Junction some months ago, and was still stood there when I last passed by. I'd like to know the poor little thing's story.
I assume that the rake of waggons is still languishing at Llandudno Junction. The freight sidings behind the station are somehow for the exclusive use of EWS/DB (so I dimly recall). Some years back, there were grumblings about the fact that they denied anyone else permission to use them, yet didn't use them theirselves. When NR pressed them about it, a rake of waggons were stabled there to make a point. Weeds and long grass then went about hiding them!
Are the BOC tanks still parked up at Barnetby? They have been there for as long as I can remember.
There's a hoppery-wagony thing (hopeless with freight wagons!) parked at Dingwall, in the siding just beyond the platform (the side that the ticket office is on). I haven't seen it move for at least 3 years (been a train commuter for 3 years now). I don't know if it's abandoned or if it only comes out to play when I'm not there.
theres a load of dumped wagons at langley oil terminal
theres a burnt out brake van in the sidings close to the new footbridge at Holyhead
Yeah there seems to be a lot of wagons that are just left standing. I thought that railway companies would be more careful and caring of their resources, as I don't imagine that wagons are 99p from Tesco and grow on trees.
theres a burnt out brake van in the sidings close to the new footbridge at Holyhead
There's been an abandoned brake van sitting all alone in a siding at Ancaster for as long as I can remember. The remains will probably still be there in the year 2500, and intrigue the industrial archeologists!!
Perhaps we should start an appeal for unloved and abandoned railway wagons - "adopt a brake van now - only £2 per month, and your wagon will send you pictures and write to you......."
Sorry. Nurse, the curtains!
How much would NR get for selling off old railway tracks to metal scrapyards? Is there much money in it or would the cost negate any potential profit?
Just imagine the conversation.... "If you don't handle our copper cables, you can have some of our track instead. ..and if you keep your promise, we'll throw in a Pacer of two for good measure"
Cuts out the middleman (copper-theiving scrote) and raises much needed cash for National Rail.