19850223_ZD_AdrianNicols
32 ton 'Internal User' Demountable Water Tank Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE., Location : Tonbridge West Yard., Date : 29/06/1993., Type : Demountable Water Tank Wagon., Weight : 32t GLW / 12t Tare., IU Number : 024752., Former Number : ADB 936413., Builder : underframe BR Shildon Works 1961., Rebuilt in 1964 by BR Development Unit Darlington Works., TOPS Code : ZXV., , ADDITIONAL NOTES., This unusual looking tank wagon was rebuilt from a 22t capacity Steel Plate wagon constructed at BR Shildon Works in 1961. The rebuild and modification work may have been carried out at the Railway Technical Centre in Derby in 1964 the year it opened but details about this wagon are somewhat sketchy to say the least (Update : See comment text below regarding the builder). It has never been listed as Derby RTC stock on contemporary stock lists and would have carried an RDB prefix if owned by Derby RTC but the ADB prefix to its original running number suggest ownership by the CM&EE department. The wagon ended up resident at Derby RTC initially as departmental stock before being registered as an internal user vehicle there. It was originally part of something called "Project Leapfrog" which was a 1960's experiment with rapid transfer between road and rail of the 4000 gallon demountable tank carried here. I assume like so many road-rail swap body ideas it failed to live up to expectation and it was thus a "one off". It languished at Derby RTC for many years used as a gas oil store before moving south in 1993. It ended up at the South Eastern Plant Depot at Ashford and at privatisation passed to Balfour Beatty Ltd. It is seen here in Tonbridge West Yard making a rare move for an internal user between locations made easier by the fact it still had a working vacuum brake. It never received a Southern Region internal user number in the 08xxxx series and at one stage looked like it would go for scrap after being lifted off the track at Ashford Plant Depot. It has since been rescued for preservation in 2011 by the Colne Valley Railway.
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