Class 20 on the Southern

Hi all I'm trying to justify my green Class 20s on my Diesel / Steam transition Southern layout. Why would they be there, and what would they be pulling? Rob

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Rob Kemp
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Local trip freight working via the West London line?

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Christopher A.Lee

Well Stratford used their D82xx or D84xx on excursions from East London to Brighton on a couple of occasions, reversing in LIverpool St before going down the East London Line.

So how about an excursion from the LMR via the West London Line or the ER via the East London Line. Good excuse for some "foreign" coaches as well.

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John Shelley

Two of them carried me around the whole SE division with the Fisons weedkilling train in the late sixties.

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jasper_goat

One took a trip down to Brighton (I assume from Stratford) in the very late '50's very early '60's 'bonnet first to test signal sighting, as the Brighton line was the only line at the time to be fully signalled by colour lights rather than semaphore.

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:Jerry:

Interesting. The local Fison's was always a Brush Type 2 A1A-A1A. Can't understand why no-one has ever produced a RTR model of the famous weedkilling train?

(kim)

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kim

Thanks for all the suggestions. What kind of freight would they be hauling? Rob

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Rob Kemp

The safest thing would be vans, that way you can't be accused of the wrong type of freight. It really depends on were your layout is set, if it's the SW division you might get away with banana traffic otherwise you're really talking about cross London transfers, you could always run an MOD special.

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:Jerry:

In those days, more-or-less anything, with a preponderance of vans, opens and flat-bottomed minerals (the coal concentration depots opened towards the end of the 1960s). Try not to overdo the 'special' wagons- though you might try a couple of Lowmacs with ambulances- the specialist coachbuilders Wadham-Stringer used to send them by rail from Fratton into the 1980s. Brian

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BH Williams

Rob,

The Class 20s I watched on Clydeside in Scotland picked up/set down mainly open wagons from industries on the river - usually heavy engineering and shipbuilding, and van traffic from the goods sheds. But the major load on a daily basis was coal for gas works in 16T minerals, and coke and empties from the gas works. Natural gas had not arrived in the early to mid sixties in a lot of areas and there was still a huge amount of coal being carted around to coal gas works.

Jim

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Jim Guthrie

I remember railfreight grey ones pulling the weedkilling train through Hamworthy Junction in the mid Eighties...

Ian J.

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Ian J.

You know I am begining to like the weedkiller train idea. Anyone have any photos they can send me or post on A.B.P.R? or know of any kits available? Thanks again Rob

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Rob Kemp

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