Seaham Staithes Durham 2nd June 1968
We visited Seaham during the Whit weekend in 1968 but being a Bank Holiday nothing was working. Nevertheless it was a very interesting place, not least this ancient caldron wagon
From Wiki:
A familiar feature of the Seaham Harbour railway scene was the chaldron wagons, invariably known at Seaham as ‘black wagons’. They had bottom-emptying doors suitable for discharging their loads at riverside staiths. They had been widely used for coal traffic since the days of the early waggonways, and until the early 1900s were also used by the ‘main line’ railway companies.
On the Seaham system the standard chaldron had a tare weight of about 2½ tons and a capacity of four tons. Some of the Seaham chaldrons remained in use until the 1970s – it is thought that they were the very last in regular use anywhere in the country – though latterly they were used mainly as mobile rubbish skips.
Seaham Staithes Durham 2nd June 1968
We visited Seaham during the Whit weekend in 1968 but being a Bank Holiday nothing was working. Nevertheless it was a very interesting place, not least this ancient caldron wagon
From Wiki:
A familiar feature of the Seaham Harbour railway scene was the chaldron wagons, invariably known at Seaham as ‘black wagons’. They had bottom-emptying doors suitable for discharging their loads at riverside staiths. They had been widely used for coal traffic since the days of the early waggonways, and until the early 1900s were also used by the ‘main line’ railway companies.
On the Seaham system the standard chaldron had a tare weight of about 2½ tons and a capacity of four tons. Some of the Seaham chaldrons remained in use until the 1970s – it is thought that they were the very last in regular use anywhere in the country – though latterly they were used mainly as mobile rubbish skips.