Jumbo Tar Wagons

[Mol_PMB]

Hopefully this thread isn't entirely the wrong place for a tank wagon snippet from the archives. This relates to a batch constructed by CIE using second-hand tanks from the UK mounted on second-hand CIE 20' flat underframes.

 

It's another one of those things I wasn't really looking for, but stumbled across and thought might be vaguely interesting to someone. 

I assume these would have become some of tank wagons 26636-26652, 26730-26750, 606A-637A.

 

[Mayner]

19 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

Hopefully this thread isn't entirely the wrong place for a tank wagon snippet from the archives. This relates to a batch constructed by CIE using second-hand tanks from the UK mounted on second-hand CIE 20' flat underframes.

 

It's another one of those things I wasn't really looking for, but stumbled across and thought might be vaguely interesting to someone. 

I assume these would have become some of tank wagons 26636-26652, 26730-26750, 606A-637A.

 

Second hand tanks possibly ESSO 1950s mk1 tanks stored in the "Railway Village" outside Inchacore Works during the early-mid 1970s.

The tanks complete with raised oval plate for ESSO logo were stored in a fenced area (wooden posts/mesh wire app 8' high) between the railway cottages on the lefthand side of the roadway to the "Works". 

Tanks were removed and area later cleared/possibly re-developed for housing.

Attended the IRRS 'annual visit' to the Works during 70s/80s