tarboat's photos with the keyword: wagon

Preserved sulphuric acid tank wagon at Bristol Docks. Built in 1940 by Charles Roberts & Co Ltd at Wakefield, it is painted as owned by the War Department and allocated to the Royal Ordnance Factory at Bridgwater.

These repurposed wagon bodies in the yard of builders Tyler & Coates in Ashbourne must be over 100 years old. It would be good to know which railway company was the original source but so far I have been unable to find any images of similar designs in service. The double outside bracing on all side panels and door is distinctive.

Preheater tower and silo at the Hanson owned Ribblesdale Cement Works at Clitheroe. Dust collection to the fore and the chimneey on top was as a funny angle after storm damage. The company was waiting for a shutdown when it would be reattached properly. One of the One of two 1975 built GEC Traction locomotives lurks on the railway headshunt.

Fanciful use for a narrow gauge railway wagon at Statfold Barn.

Hope Construction Materials has unveiled 48 state-of-the-art cement carrying wagons, developed in partnership with VTG Rail UK. The wagons were manufactured by German company Feldbinder and have an enhanced capacity of 80 tonnes - more than twice the standard payload of 36 tonnes. This will increase the capacity of each train to 1,850 tonnes of cement, 500 tonnes more than previously.

Some of the iron production from the blast furnaces of Dillinger Hütte GTS is sent by rail as hot metal in torpedo wagons. These four torpedoes are heading for the Röchling-Burbach steelworks at Völklingen a few kilometres from Dillingen.

Bulk lime wagons queue outside the hydrating plant alongside the shaft kilns at Tunstead Quarry.

At the entrance to the Lafarge and Omya operated Dowlow Quarry stands a relic of the days when stone was moved from the face by rail.