Hi all
In one of my silly moments of bargain shopping this week I bought done blue spot fish vans
What was the usual number of van in a train load of them or were they ran like milk tankers and could have any number of them
I been looking but could only find info about the different types used
Thanks in advance
Bart
Hi Bart
Not much info about these anywhere really, depends on the region and I suspect time of year. The trains to London from the Scotland, the North East,South Wales and South West will have been very big at times and I suspect small on other occasions.
Bing images shows some fish trains, some hauled by large locos so presumably quite long
and some groups of wagons in Scotland about 4-5 wagons long.
Thanks for that. I just got two dapol blue spots this week. I have no peco versions but I do have some of the farish birds eye ad conflats and some of the earlier NE(I think) fish vans that look like a cattle truck so I will be se to run a short train
Thanks again
Bart
Fish would normally be run on its own as like milk it was passenger rated. They may well have been mixed into other freights on return, or ready to be shunted onto the fast freights south to London.
I wouldn't worry about the Peco fish van, if I remember rightly its not terribly accurate, while the Dapol one is.
In earlier days before refrigeration caught on big time the companies had some even more interesting wagons for shipping live fish containers. Fastest goldfish bowls on the planet 8)
The GWR had some specialist brakes for fish I don't know if the LNER practice was simply to run 4 wheel vans at 60+ mph and hope the guard didn't fall out ?
Alan
Thanks Al
Yes t saw the fish tanks on an article on the web tiscali I think was the site or something sounding like that
On a side note was meat vans run the same as milk and fish, quick express on their own or were they worked into a normal freight train
Thanks bart
Further to EP's post one of the Bing images shows a 9F loco hauling a large number
of fish vans, caption is Blue spot empties being returned north from London
on the ECML to Grimsby, Hull and Aberdeen.
Thanks heaps guys. Will go and have a look at bing then
Bart