46 ton Chemical Solvent Tank Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE.
Location : Runcorn Folly Lane Yard.
Date : 17/01/1987.
Type : Chemical Solvent Tank Wagon.
Weight : 46 t GLW / 12.90 t Tare.
Number : PR 58309.
Number Series : PR 58300 to PR 58313.
Builder : 1967 & 1970 by Standard Wagon Co. Ltd, Heywood Works, Lancashire, England.
TOPS Code : TTA
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
This tank wagon was owned by Procor Wagon Leasing and spent its working life on hire to ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd) and used by their Mond Division (ex Brunner Mond Co.) to carry Tetracholoroethylene. The yard at Runcorn Folly Lane was used as the exchange point between the BR network and the ICI operated branch to Rocksavage which served the various ICI chemical complexes along the banks of the River Mersey at Weston, Castner-Kelner and Rocksavage.
Tank wagons left Folly Lane in block loads to places like Holywell, Burne Naze, Corckickle, Immingham, Grimsby, Seal Sands, Stevenston and Willesden plus a lengthy list of wagon load destinations. With the move towards smaller quantities of chemicals used in industry and environmental concern over storage of large quantities of dangerous chemicals the need for bulk rail flows became less viable. Bulk Chemicals by rail within the UK has all but ended and the once vast tank fleet has largely been scrapped. These days tank-tainers on container wagons are the norm and the only remaining flows from Runcorn are of Nitric acid or Caustic Soda to Sellafield and Dalry.
46 ton Chemical Solvent Tank Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE.
Location : Runcorn Folly Lane Yard.
Date : 17/01/1987.
Type : Chemical Solvent Tank Wagon.
Weight : 46 t GLW / 12.90 t Tare.
Number : PR 58309.
Number Series : PR 58300 to PR 58313.
Builder : 1967 & 1970 by Standard Wagon Co. Ltd, Heywood Works, Lancashire, England.
TOPS Code : TTA
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
This tank wagon was owned by Procor Wagon Leasing and spent its working life on hire to ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd) and used by their Mond Division (ex Brunner Mond Co.) to carry Tetracholoroethylene. The yard at Runcorn Folly Lane was used as the exchange point between the BR network and the ICI operated branch to Rocksavage which served the various ICI chemical complexes along the banks of the River Mersey at Weston, Castner-Kelner and Rocksavage.
Tank wagons left Folly Lane in block loads to places like Holywell, Burne Naze, Corckickle, Immingham, Grimsby, Seal Sands, Stevenston and Willesden plus a lengthy list of wagon load destinations. With the move towards smaller quantities of chemicals used in industry and environmental concern over storage of large quantities of dangerous chemicals the need for bulk rail flows became less viable. Bulk Chemicals by rail within the UK has all but ended and the once vast tank fleet has largely been scrapped. These days tank-tainers on container wagons are the norm and the only remaining flows from Runcorn are of Nitric acid or Caustic Soda to Sellafield and Dalry.