19850223_ZD_AdrianNicols
80 ton Bogie Covered Hopper Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE., Location : Mossend Down Yard., Date : 12/04/2012., Type : Bogie Covered Hopper Wagon., Weight : 80 t GLW / 22 t Tare., Number : 21 70 938 2 004-7., Number Series : 21 70 938 2 000-x to 21 70 938 2 058-x., Builder : 1974-75 Fauvet Girel, Douai, France., TOPS Code : JIA., UIC Code : Uadfs., Designation : POLYBULK., , ADDITIONAL NOTES., These Polybulk wagons have spent most of their operating life carrying fine powder products like lime, silica sand and china clay. They were once a common sight using the Dover-Dunkerque train ferry and latterly the Channel tunnel but use these days tends to be restricted to the UK carrying lime. They have seen several owners since being built like TSL (Traffic Services Ltd), Tiphook Rail, Tiger-Rail and now most are operated by German leasing company VTG (Vereinigte Tanklager und Transportmittel GmbH), , International use for many years was from various ECC clay works in Cornwall, UK to Sezzadio in Italy and Basel in Switzerland carrying china clay for use in the ceramics industry. Internal use in the UK has been varied over the years. For a long time they carried Urea from Kings Lynn Docks to Duxford Ciba-Geigy Works but most recent use has been lime traffic in wagonload form operating from Lafarge's Dowlow and Thrislington Quarries or Tata Steel's Hardendale Quarry., , The wagon see here at Mossend is used to convey lime between Lafarge's Dowlow Quarry in Derbyshire to P.D. Stirling's Ltd freight terminal at Mossend where it is transhipped to road vehicles for onward distribution. For a short period sand was back loaded at Mossend for Monk Bretton in Yorkshire but this traffic flow has ceased with the wagons returning empty from Mossend to Dowlow.
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