Pipe Trains

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Sailor
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"Sailor" wrote

Yes thanks Sailor, right size pipes but these are obviously on something like a LOWFIT or bolster, and in some sort of rack or frame. Its not what I am looking for at the moment, but I am going to grab the picture and keep it as another option that I can add to my freight train stock in due course...

That's the problem with playing this game, I keep finding things and saying to myself "I ought to add that for interest". As with my SR/BR(S) parcels train, this is going to be a very long train when I eventually finish it.

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Elliott

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Elliott Cowton

"Elliott Cowton" wrote in message news:K_LMi.56006$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...

The ones in the photo are steel pipes from the pipe works at Hartlepool, I suspect, as opposed to cast-iron ones like those from Stanton and Staveley. The ones shown are on modified Bogie Bolster Cs, which were used on traffic from Hartlepool until superseded by air-braked wagons in the 1990s. These pipes were, and indeed still are, used by the oil and gas industry, both for off-shore pipelines in the North Sea and Morecambe Bay fields and for on-shore pipelines like the one currently being constructed from Milford Haven towards England. In the former case they run to terminals with welding facilities where they can be welded into lengths of many kilometres before being towed out to sea. In the latter case, they will run to a number of temporary railheads (usually just a siding with a mobile crane and some storage space) along the route- at various times, places such as Haverfordwest and St Neots have been used, along with many others. I'd be interested to know when and where Peter's photo was taken. Should you wish to pursue the idea of specialist loads a bit further, there's an inspirational little book called 'British Railways Wagons- their loads and loading', published by Silverlink. One of the authors was the Chief Loads Inspector for BR Eastern Region, so there are lots of pictures of 'exceptional loads' from places like 'Cleveland Bridge and Engineering' and 'Redpath Dorman Long' amongst the more prosaic stuff. It's interesting to look back at photos taken relatively recently (the 1960s) and see how much has changed. No Hi-Vis vests or jackets, whilst the status of individuals could be divined from their headgear- workmen with cloth caps, 'gaffers' with bowlers and managers with trilbies. Brian

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