| This detailed new volume concentrates on the development of the train ferry wagon from the mid 1970s through to the present day. The author carefully explains the method of operation at the ports, and broad division of traffic, including useful details of the freight services used to feed the wagons into the British rail network. Wagons registered in France, Germany, and Italy as well as those international wagons registered in Britain are featured in detail alongside a rare selection of pictures of vehicles from Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Switzerland and Yugoslavia. Useful captions highlight important details such as wagon number, location and date, as well as special features, with details of load carried and customers served. A worthy addition to this successful series, this valuable new book is certain to inspire modellers to create authentic train ferry wagons across several decades. Contents:
- Introduction
- 1 – Two Axle Ferry Vans
- 2 – Bogie Ferry Vans
- 3 – Curtain-sided vans and hooded flats
- 4 – Covered hoppers and powder wagons
- 5 – Bogie hopper wagons
- 6 – Highs and lows
- 7 – Cargowaggon flats
- 8 – Timber Conversions
- 9 – Ferry Tanks
- 10 – Associated Octel Tank wagons
- 11 – Other ferry Tanks at Ellesmere Port
- 12 – Tanks for Deeside Titanium
- 13 – Ferry tanks in South Wales
- 14 – Ferry tanks on Teesside
- 15 – More two-axle ferry tanks
- 16 – Phosphorus tanks
- 17 – Stainless-steel Tiphook tanks
- 18 – Chalk and china-clay slurry tanks
- 19 – Wine and glucose tanks
- 20 – Going Nuclear
- 21 – Car-carriers
- 22 – Tiphook ‘Piggybacks’
- 23 – Container flats
Continent: Europe
Country: UK |
