102 ton High Capacity Ballast Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE.
Location : Carlisle Kingmoor Yard.
Date : 06/10/2018.
Type Bogie High Capacity Ballast Wagon.
Weight : 102 t GLW / 24.1 t Tare.
Number : VTG 3486.
Number Series VTG 3400 to VTG 3519.
Builder : 1998 by Marcroft Engineering Ltd, Stoke Works.
TOPS Code : JNA.
Design Code : JN054B.
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
These high capacity aggregate wagons were originally owned by CAIB and leased to Railtrack Plc from new before the fleet was later sold to German leasing company VTG. There original use was for bulk railway ballast but since the advent of Network Rail who now use their own wagon fleet for such work they have passed into the general bulk aggregate sector. Many have seen use on the Cross Rail project carrying spoil away from London to various locations. They were considered to be conversions rather than new builds but original components are only really the bogies, brake gear and a few running components salvaged from former Croxton & Garry operated bulk cement and lime PDA wagons. The box body and underframe being new. Kingmoor Yard has two of them as long term residents stored but why they ended up here I am not sure. They possibly came north when DRS hired some ex Cross Rail Project wagons to move quarry slate waste from Barrow Docks to Drigg in 2016.
102 ton High Capacity Ballast Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE.
Location : Carlisle Kingmoor Yard.
Date : 06/10/2018.
Type Bogie High Capacity Ballast Wagon.
Weight : 102 t GLW / 24.1 t Tare.
Number : VTG 3486.
Number Series VTG 3400 to VTG 3519.
Builder : 1998 by Marcroft Engineering Ltd, Stoke Works.
TOPS Code : JNA.
Design Code : JN054B.
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
These high capacity aggregate wagons were originally owned by CAIB and leased to Railtrack Plc from new before the fleet was later sold to German leasing company VTG. There original use was for bulk railway ballast but since the advent of Network Rail who now use their own wagon fleet for such work they have passed into the general bulk aggregate sector. Many have seen use on the Cross Rail project carrying spoil away from London to various locations. They were considered to be conversions rather than new builds but original components are only really the bogies, brake gear and a few running components salvaged from former Croxton & Garry operated bulk cement and lime PDA wagons. The box body and underframe being new. Kingmoor Yard has two of them as long term residents stored but why they ended up here I am not sure. They possibly came north when DRS hired some ex Cross Rail Project wagons to move quarry slate waste from Barrow Docks to Drigg in 2016.