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| UK frieght lengths. 25/06/2014 at 08:35 #62015 | |
onlydjw
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The rotary couplers were fitted (still are in the case of Immingham-Santon) to most of the iron ore tipplers built in the 1970's (the wagons and equipment used on the Santon flows are all 40+ years old new, and hence aren't 100% reliable anymore). Hence the wagons being called tipplers and not boxes. Whether or not those tipplers now employed on stone or scrap traffic retain rotary couplings or not I couldn't say, as those flows don't require the wagons to be tipped like the iron ore trains do.
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| UK frieght lengths. 25/06/2014 at 15:58 #62026 | |
eeldump
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Thanks for straightening me out on this one, I forgot completely about instanters! By the way, are four-wheel wagons still in common use in the UK?
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| UK frieght lengths. 01/10/2014 at 10:07 #64800 | |
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Mothman
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Video of a long train - on Youtube - 9LsuNWjRaAo. 8 minutes long.
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