19850223_ZD_AdrianNicols
65 tonne GLW Bogie Sleeper Carrier Wagon.
Location : Carlisle Kingmoor Yard., Date : 12/05/2013., Type : Bogie Sleeper Carrier Wagon., Weight : 65 t GLW / 24.9 t Tare., Number : 31 70 462 9 029-0., Number Series : 31 70 462 9 001-9 to 31 70 462 9 050-6., Builder : 2009 by W.H. Davis Ltd, Langwith, Derbyshire., TOPS Code : IFA., UIC Code : Sfkmmss., CCE Code : none allocated., , ADDITIONAL NOTES., These modern bogie sleeper carriers were built to work in conjunction with the Matisa D75 track renewal train known as the TRS-4 high output train. They were something of a break with tradition as the sleepers are loaded into bale cradles which can be lifted off by road plant. The 50 wagons built all belong to Network Rail and currently operate from the Cemex concrete works at Washwood Heath in Birmingham to where ever the TRS-4 is currently out based. The wagon seen here is in the consist of 6X95 09.45 Mossband Junction to Kingmoor Yard having been involved in overnight track renewals. The vehicle is loaded with redundant sleepers recovered by the Matisa D75 machine and these will leave Kingmoor Yard in the consist of 4G05 02.08 Kingmoor to Washwood Heath where the old sleepers in cradles will be replaced with new ones and returned the next day as 4C03 back to Kingmoor High Output Operations Base.
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