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CIE had a fleet of 20x8x8 tank containers, mostly used for fuels and other oils.

Latterly they were used on the Foynes to Ballina coal and oil train, and the barrier wagon tanks used on the Ammonia trains were also very similar.

Here are a few detail photos that I took of dumped survivors.

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Some from Flickr.

 

From Fred Dean, one of the Ammonia barrier tanks:

Irish Rail 30284 in Cork.

From Jonathan Allen, a photo dated 1989 with stacks of tanks carrying different branding. Two are Shell, three are Cold Chon (Galway):

035 in Mallow

A photo in Doyle&Hirsch shows two of these tank containers with similar branding panels for Cationic Road Emulsions.

From Jon33040 on Flickr, here's the 'wrong' end of the coal&oil train, with the tanks just visible in the distance.

011 at Tuam

 

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13 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

From Jonathan Allen, a photo dated 1989 with stacks of tanks carrying different branding. Two are Shell, three are Cold Chon (Galway):

035 in Mallow

A photo in Doyle&Hirsch shows two of these tank containers with similar branding panels for Cationic Road Emulsions.

 

 

 

These are most likely carrying Bitumen Emulsion or cutback bitumen to Road Binders Ltd in Quartertown mill, which had a siding off the Tralee line. Cold Chon manufactured these at plants in Oranmore and on Sligo Quay but I'm not sure where the Shell branded tanks might have been coming from. I'm guessing that the siding closed some time in the 70s, and these tank containers worked in regular liner trains replaced delivery by Tar wagon direct to the Mill. Road Binders and Cold Chon have both since become Colas, now where have I heard that name

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