Curated By Clive Smith
37248 Par 4th February 2000
Mainline liveried 37248 takes the Newquay line and heads round the curve at Par towards St Blazey with a train of clay 'Tigers'.
The ‘Clay Tigers’ entered service for ECC in August 1982, taking over the ‘Clayliner’ working from Cornwall and running as a 10 or 11-wagon block train to a new rail-served terminal that ECC had opened at Cliffe Vale, situated half a mile to the north of Stoke-on-Trent station.
China clay loading points for these wagons in the West Country included the ECC dries at Burngullow, Goonbarrow Junction, Kernick, Marsh Mills, Parkandillack, Pontsmill and Treviscoe. In addition, they occasionally carried china clay from the Goonvean & Rostowrack Clay Company sidings at both Bugle and Drinnick Mill.
The ‘Clay Tigers’ continued to serve Cliffe Vale but all were eventually withdrawn in 2004 when this working was fully taken over by the new fleet of Imerys-branded 90 tonne GLW covered hoppers leased from Nacco, the JIAs.
37248 was put into storage in 2003 then sold to preservation in 2005. It had a spell at Butterley at the Midland Railway before a move to the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway at Toddington in 2009.
37248 Par 4th February 2000
Mainline liveried 37248 takes the Newquay line and heads round the curve at Par towards St Blazey with a train of clay 'Tigers'.
The ‘Clay Tigers’ entered service for ECC in August 1982, taking over the ‘Clayliner’ working from Cornwall and running as a 10 or 11-wagon block train to a new rail-served terminal that ECC had opened at Cliffe Vale, situated half a mile to the north of Stoke-on-Trent station.
China clay loading points for these wagons in the West Country included the ECC dries at Burngullow, Goonbarrow Junction, Kernick, Marsh Mills, Parkandillack, Pontsmill and Treviscoe. In addition, they occasionally carried china clay from the Goonvean & Rostowrack Clay Company sidings at both Bugle and Drinnick Mill.
The ‘Clay Tigers’ continued to serve Cliffe Vale but all were eventually withdrawn in 2004 when this working was fully taken over by the new fleet of Imerys-branded 90 tonne GLW covered hoppers leased from Nacco, the JIAs.
37248 was put into storage in 2003 then sold to preservation in 2005. It had a spell at Butterley at the Midland Railway before a move to the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway at Toddington in 2009.