What is this and what would you value it?

[Woolleysh33p]

Ok. It is now on eBay!

[Steven B]

The wagon in the photo  is substation transformer transporter.
The green block is a transformer. Transfomers are moved in
The UK by road transport. As the railway loading gauge want
Take that size of wagon.       

Transformers were carried by rail in the UK - BR had two such wagons
http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brtransformer

http://www.nrm.org.uk/ourcollection/photo?group=British%20Transport%20Commission&objid=1996-7038_BTF_640_37

The transformer load could be skewed over to avoid line-side hazards.
I'm sure there's a British Transport Films program showing it in use on the Ffestiniog branch but I can't find it.

Happy modelling.

Steven B.

[AndyGif]

and here's how you do it on the road....

http://static.commercialmotor.com/big-lorry-blog/assets_c/2010/12/More%20dennis%20long%20combo-thumb-448x298-106466.jpg

hmm, I like both setups....  Perhaps, that's why I'm building railways guns at the moment... I like bogies

[johnlambert]

The wagon in the photo  is substation transformer transporter.
The green block is a transformer. Transfomers are moved in
The UK by road transport. As the railway loading gauge want
Take that size of wagon.       

Transformers were carried by rail in the UK - BR had two such wagons
http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brtransformer

http://www.nrm.org.uk/ourcollection/photo?group=British%20Transport%20Commission&objid=1996-7038_BTF_640_37

The transformer load could be skewed over to avoid line-side hazards.
I'm sure there's a British Transport Films program showing it in use on the Ffestiniog branch but I can't find it.

Happy modelling.

Steven B.

I saw that Ffestinog film recently but I can't remember where it was linked from.  Could have been one of several forums.  I remember the film noting that the shape of the transformer had been designed to help it fit the loading gauge of the line.  One of the lead wagons carried a dummy outline of the transformer too.  And a steam loco followed the main train at a short distance to act as an emergency buffer stop if the couplings on the transformer train broke.

[Steven B]

Found the film:

Measured for Transport 1962

The film is "Measured For Transport" (1962) - BFI British Transport Films DVD Volume 8 - Points and Aspects.

The transformer was for the hydro-electric power station on Tanygrisiau Reservoir (which when built resulted in the flooding of the original Ffestiniog Railway trackbed).

Happy modelling.

Steven B.