62'9'' container wagons

[gm171 kk]

Has anyone got any photos of the 62'9'' container wagons now converted into timber wagons in use on container liners? I have bought a couple of the Hornby kfa wagons which are very similar and am trying to decide whether to convert them to timbers or not. They are a very nice wagon as they are and very expensive!

Edited February 16, 2013 by gm171 kk

[Glenderg]

These are ordinary 62'9" bogie flats with cradles added which fit into the lugs on the side?

[gm171 kk]

That's them Glenderg. I tried to post a picture of one rake of them I found on another site but it wouldn't allow me.

[Glenderg]

These are a few I took in Maynooth some years ago, I hope they are of the right wagon. Richie.

 

[gm171 kk]

Thanks Richie but apparently they were used on container liners first and I was looking for info about when they were converted to timber wagons as I would rather not start messing around with a model that may be already suitable for running with Irish stock.

[Glenderg]

Ah! sorry, blonde moment. Will have a look for now. R.

 

Edit - I've no photos of it "naked"

Edited February 16, 2013 by Glenderg

[gm171 kk]

As I couldn't link this picture by URL to the site. I screen capped it. I hope the owner doesn't mind.

The rake next to the long line of BELL containers are what I am talking about.

[Mayner]

As I couldn't link this picture by URL to the site. I screen capped it. I hope the owner doesn't mind.

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The rake next to the long line of BELL containers are what I am talking about.

 

That a great photo shows the scale of container traffic once carried by the railway.

 

The 62'9" wagons seem to have been mainly used on Dublin-Cork, Limerick and Galway Liner trains. The Galway Liner was a Liner Mail with the wagons marshalled behind the passenger rated stock, usually a BR Heating Van, TPO and parcel vans which were piped to run with air braked stock.

 

These wagons become surplus to requirements as container wagons in the early-mid 90s after a round of "rationalisation" that resulted in the ending of Mails and Sundries Traffic and the concentration of container traffic on a small number of depots.

 

So probably Supertrain or early IE points logo 071 or pairs of Bo Bos than 201 and electrical plug era haulage.

[gm171 kk]

There is a video on youtube of the last TPO train and had two 42"7' wagons behind it. It was a documentary about the Dublin/Cork TPO train but the footage may have been taken earlier from another mail train. There is also a video on youtube showing 62"9' wagons in Limerick loaded with containers.