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66727 ‘Maritime One’ at Leyland on 6S94 04:28 Wembley Euro Freight Ops Centre - Irvine Caledonian Paper via the Settle & Carlisle clay pulp "Silver Bullet" tanks on 06/06/18.
66008 at Bamber Bridge on 6S94 04:28 Wembley Euro Freight Ops Centre - Irvine Caledonian Paper via the Settle & Carlisle clay pulp "Silver Bullet" tanks on 25/07/18.
37 674 / 37 671 all most at the top of Hemmerdon Bank but down to walking pace with 6S55 Burnullow to Irvine, the silver bullets conveying loaded china clay slurry,
I remember exchanging a few words with the driver (difficult due to the 37’s at notch 8) about his struggle getting up the bank
29th July 1990
92017 heads south at Barby Nortoft with 6O60 Mossend-Dollands Moor on the 22nd of August 2008. The 'silver' wagons are now increasingly rare, and in this case, a silver wagon with no childish and pointless graffiti seems even rarer!
37670 & 37412 head north at Winwick with 6S55 Burngullow to Irvine. 11/6/92. The "bullets" look particularly silver in this shot!
92044 at Charnock Richard on 6S93 02:32 Dollands Moor - Irvine Caledonian Paper clay pulp 'Silver Bullet' tanks on 25/01/17.
66733 "Cambridge PSB" & 66774 (DIT) crawl past Selside Shaw with the heavily-delayed 6S94 04:28 Wembley to Irvine Caledonian Paper loaded china clay slurry. 11/7/2018. 66774 ran out of fuel at Hellifield and had to be rescued by 66733. Was it worth the three hour wait? Mmmm.
37670 'St Blazey T&RS Depot' & 37416 'Mt Fuji' crossing Carlyon Bay golf course with the up Burngullow – Irvine china clay tanks on Sunday 24th October 1993. This was the era when the tanks were kept in pristine condition, hence the name 'Silver Bullets'.
37420 'The Scottish Hosteller' & 37417 'Highland Region' pass Respryn with 6S55 – 09:50 Burngullow – Irvine tanks on Sunday 8th March 1992.
Transrail branded 60093 'Jack Stirk' was recorded passing through Bristol Temple Meads station with the TThO 6S55 09:40 Burngullow ECC to Irvine Caladonian Paper china clay tanks. To the left of the Class 60 was the former Bristol Bath Road Depot [TMD] that had closed in September 1995.
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92028 + 66720 at Carnforth on 6S94 05:12 Wembley Euro Freight Ops Centre - Irvine Caledonian Paper clay pulp "Silver Bullet" tanks on 21/02/18.
42 of the 2000 class Railmotors were built for Queensland Railways between 1956 and 1971 with some built by Commonwealth Engineering at Rocklea while others by Queensland Rail at Ipswich.
19 of the class still survive, many in preservation including some at Zig Zag rail in NSW , as well at the regular Savannahlander from Cairns.
On 11-11-07, 2004 is stabled at the Rockhampton Railway station , the railmotor entering service on 14-7-1960 was then used by Queensland Rail as a track inspection car and later passed on to Aurizon for the same role.
Stobart Rail liveried Class 92 92017 'Bart the Engine' crosses the river Clyde at Crawford on 13th July 2011 with 6S94 Dollands Moor to Irvine
The rollercoaster called "The Silver Bullet" at Knott's Berry Farm. A perfect example why I love to shoot at night!
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66724 'Drax Power Station' on full chat through Kemsing working 6B63 12:45 Wembley Eur Frt Ops Centre to Dollands Moor.
These are the China Clay slurry (Kaolin) bogie tanks that (for the return journey) have originated at the Caledonian Paper Mill at Irvine in Scotland, returning to be loaded in Belgium.
The train is possibly the furthest travelling freight service in the UK, and works Irvine-Carlisle, Carlisle-Wembley, Wembley - Dollands Moor and finally Dollands Moor - Belgium via the Channel Tunnel.
Another classic Cathay Pacific Cargo scheme that I would love to see come back on a CX 747-8F. Calling this one the "Silver Bullet."
B-HUP
Cathay Pacific Cargo
Boeing 747-467F
"Silver Bullet"
PANC- Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport
October 20, 2012
Transrail branded 60035 'Florence Nightingale' had charge of the TTHO 6S55 09:40 Burngullow to Irvine clay slurry (Kaolin Slurry) train recorded emerging from Newport Old Tunnel on the Down Relief approach to Alexandra Dock Junction Yard. The tag 'silver bullets' was somewhat historical by the time this image was taken, those NACO TEA tanks having weathered a great deal while in service.
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The 0950 Burgullow - Irvine china clay "SIlver Bullets" turns heads as it leans into to the curve at Dawlish Warren on 10 july 1991 powered by 37670 & 37420
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Having been finally released from the season's RHTT duties, still-grubby GB Railfreight Class 66, 66776 "Joanne" leads the china clay slurry tanks through the winter morning sun at Hartford on 6S94 04:28 Wembley Yard to Irvine Caledonian Paper.
A wider view of 66733 "Cambridge PSB" & 66774 (DIT) at Selside Shaw with 6S94 04:28 Wembley to Irvine China Clay slurry. 11/7/2018
37671 'Tre Pol and Pen' + 37672 'Freight Transport Association' at Preston on the Burgullow - Irvine clay pulp 'silver bullet' tanks on 18/07/90.
66740 "Sarah" is seen in snowy splendour at Selside Far Moor with 6S94 04:28 Wembley to Irvine loaded China Clay slurry. 23/1/2019. Thanks to Steve Sienkiewicz for letting me borrow his steps.
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It’s those little things that truly make life wonderful. Don’t take them for granted!: a little mansion by the ocean, a little yacht, a little silver Ferrari, a little fortune…
Blessed are those who expect nothing, for they will never be disappointed.
Felices los que nada esperan, porque nunca serán defraudados.
Somewhere along the way the budget for keeping these wagons clean got lost, so they quickly turned to Railway Manky Grey. Relatively new St.Blazey import 37668 in petroleum sector branding leads old hand 37669 on the 6S55 up Teignmouth sea wall, 11th April 1995.
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66712 ‘Peterborough Power Signalbox’ + 92010 at Preston on 6S94 02:30 Dollands Moor - Irvine Caledonian Paper clay pulp "Silver Bullet" tanks on 02/08/17.
Silver Bullets was the name given to the ICA wagons that move China Clay Slurry by rail, due to the fact that when new and clean they have a mirror like finish. However, nothing stays clean for long on the railway and after a few months hard slog from one end of the country to the other, and slurry spilling onto the wagon sides when loading, they soon took on a weathered appearance.
Thankfully, Dapol have offered the wagons not only in pristine condition but as murky, weathered examples too, meaning prototypical scenes can be recreated with a rake of minging wagons.
Here we have one such wagon behind a Heljan Class 33 locomotive which has received a light dusting with an airbrush to recreate that 'lived in' look.