There was a regular traffic in bromine (shipped as bromoethane - more convenient) from the plant on the north coast of Anglesey that extracts it from seawater.
I was told that European legislation prevented such chemicals being carried through the enclosed spaces of the Penmaenmawr tunnel. So instead, they go by public highway - in a totally uncontrolled fashion, through towns and villages right along the N Wales coast, at the mercy of hundreds and thousands of other drivers who, we hope, don't crash into big lorries carrying organic carcinogens.
David N (They say I'm cynical, but what else can you expect...)
I am currently planning a layout based on Llandudno Junction. Several
> pictures in my collection of books show train of white tanks in transit to
> Anglesey. Indeed I have seen them myself many years ago and recall they
> were marked as carrying Ethylene Dibromide or something equally nasty. >
> I *think* they have been scrapped now. They, or something similar hung
> around a wagon works further up the coast for a while but have gone now. >
> As all the aforementioned pictures are mailnly of the loco, does anybody
> know where there are good pictures/plans of the tanks themselves? >
> Thanks in anticipation ,
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> Roy.
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