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A question to assist with a railway modelling era 5 project, please;


tanker wagons - would they all still be the same supplier eg Esso, or would a rake run mixed named?

Does anyone have a reference I can use? I’m well briefed on mixed freight and braked/unbraked etc, but tanker configurations have me flummoxed? I also know about later eras, and also era 5 use of a box van between the loco and tankers etc?

That is an interesting question! I do not think that mixed rakes of tankers would be common except perhaps in marshalling yards or around fuel depots. The main use for these would be transporting oil products from a refinery to a fuel distribution depot. So i imagine the tankers would all belong to either operator of the refinery and/or the depot.

I doen't remember seeing much oil traffic around Mansfield.
It was mostly coal although there was a cattle dock out side the Midland station and a goods shed.
The Great Central line had its sidings along Great Central Road and Baums Lane, with the Fish train coming through weekdays, but again mostly coal traffic.
Derekr

GeoffAlan3 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 27, 2022 1:24 pm In these woke times, shouldn't that be Personsfield?

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hope this works ..............yes there another person from Personfield

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