80 ton Bogie Open Aggregate Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE.
Location : Carlisle Kingmoor Yard.
Date : 03/06/2016.
Type : Bogie Open Aggregate Wagon.
Weight : 80 ton GLW / (55.6t Capacity & 24.4t Tare).
Number : 950010.
Number Series : Various conversions in the 95xxxx range.
Builder : Rebuilt 2016 by Axiom Rail, Stoke Wagon Works.
TOPS Code : MXA.
UIC Code : Sms.
CCE Code : RED LOBSTER.
Lot no. : 3907.
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
The "new" 'Red Lobster' engineers wagons being built for DB Cargo are recycled steel carriers, mostly ex BDA and BEA's. The conversion has come about as DB seeks to rid its fleet of four wheeled open aggregate wagons like MHA 'Coalfish' and MTA 'Doorands' which are also recycled vehicles being ex coal hopper frames for the MHA's and tank wagon frames for the MTA's. The downturn in the steel industry in the UK has created a surplus of Bogie Bolster wagons but these former BR air braked fleet wagons are in fact much older and this latest conversion is a third generation re-use.
The vehicle seen here started life as B 942207 a 42ton capacity Bogie Bolster. D (TOPS code BDO) built by BR Swindon Works in 1955 to diagram 1/472 and lot 2691. When BR shifted from unfitted and vacuum braked to air braked freight it was rebuilt at Ashford BREL Works in 1977 with new bogies and air brakes to emerge as 950010 from lot 3907 which covered vehicles 950001 to 950200 (TOPS code BDA) they had a 58 ton capacity. The wagons have gained the Civil Engineers designation 'Red Lobster' all though none seem to carry the legend yet.
80 ton Bogie Open Aggregate Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE.
Location : Carlisle Kingmoor Yard.
Date : 03/06/2016.
Type : Bogie Open Aggregate Wagon.
Weight : 80 ton GLW / (55.6t Capacity & 24.4t Tare).
Number : 950010.
Number Series : Various conversions in the 95xxxx range.
Builder : Rebuilt 2016 by Axiom Rail, Stoke Wagon Works.
TOPS Code : MXA.
UIC Code : Sms.
CCE Code : RED LOBSTER.
Lot no. : 3907.
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
The "new" 'Red Lobster' engineers wagons being built for DB Cargo are recycled steel carriers, mostly ex BDA and BEA's. The conversion has come about as DB seeks to rid its fleet of four wheeled open aggregate wagons like MHA 'Coalfish' and MTA 'Doorands' which are also recycled vehicles being ex coal hopper frames for the MHA's and tank wagon frames for the MTA's. The downturn in the steel industry in the UK has created a surplus of Bogie Bolster wagons but these former BR air braked fleet wagons are in fact much older and this latest conversion is a third generation re-use.
The vehicle seen here started life as B 942207 a 42ton capacity Bogie Bolster. D (TOPS code BDO) built by BR Swindon Works in 1955 to diagram 1/472 and lot 2691. When BR shifted from unfitted and vacuum braked to air braked freight it was rebuilt at Ashford BREL Works in 1977 with new bogies and air brakes to emerge as 950010 from lot 3907 which covered vehicles 950001 to 950200 (TOPS code BDA) they had a 58 ton capacity. The wagons have gained the Civil Engineers designation 'Red Lobster' all though none seem to carry the legend yet.