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  • Ben Williams

    11 September 2009, 11:08:33

    Finally a photo of this wagon for the website. The siding it sits on has been partially lifted meaning a complicated (and expensive) move if it was ever to be recovered.

    Apparently EWS (at the time) approved jacking it over to siding 9 (the washer road nearest the wall) but because of faulty vacuum braking it was going to involve several wagons each side as brake force and 2 locos - which pushed the price beyond feasibility. What happens now is anyone's guess... probably breaking on site. The side nearest the mainline received various touch-ups of grey primer a while ago to cover graffiti (including the number panel and buffers) but the Motorail logo and IU number are still visible on this side.

  • Mike Porter

    15 September 2009, 11:29:16

    Before being an internal user, this was TDB745628, which was converted from BR Suburban coach 46052, which is what the frame and running gear originated from !!

  • Jon Horswell

    11 October 2010, 20:39:46

    What was the use for this vehicle to make it require an IU number, or has it simply been dumped here OOU for so long that it required an IU number through the company checking up on their assets and then realising they actually had it!?

  • Roger Elliott

    12 October 2011, 15:13:52

    This Motorail end loader was made as standby loader vehicle only when two new side loaders were employed at Euston - as such it was restricted to Euston / Camden only which probably how it came into I.U. status.

  • Roger Elliott

    12 October 2011, 15:14:09

    It looks as though the Camden Carriage Sidings Carflat 024783 (TDB 745628 YXV) is not much longer for this world.

    London Midland has permission from the wagons owners (BRB/ORR) to cut up the wagon. This is because the severed siding (No. 8 Road) that the wagon sits on is to be recommissioned and extended. The vehicle is land locked (No way of roading it out unless huge crane hire costs) and you would need two locos (reversal involved) and six barrier wagons (3 each end due to reversal) for brake force, so railing it out would be at huge cost as well (this is even assuming that it passed a U.A.T. / F.T.R).

    Cheers

    Roger Elliott.

    Roger E - Camden Yard Shunts A Speciality !

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