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Southern region weedkiller trains

本贴由 ANGENG 于 2015-04-06 发布. 版块名称: Heritage Rolling Stock

  1. ANGENG

    ANGENG New Member

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    Does anyone have any photo or details of what wagons and tenders were used to make up the Southern railways early weedkiller train, I believe it featured on a Wills cigarette card in the 30's??? I have seen the later trains consisting of converted carriages and tankers, and I know someone who used to work on these for Chipmans, but the one I would like to know more about I believe must have had around 6 tenders used as tanks and a coach or van converted for the actual spraying
     
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    flying scotsman123 Resident of Nat Pres

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    Maybe that explains the 'train' in "Call the Midwife" recently... ;)
     
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    martin1656 Nat Pres stalwart Friend

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    the chipmans weed killing train had converted coaches and tank wagons, , i can't remember seing converted ex loco tenders, as when i used to see the weed kiling trains it was post steam era , the only loco tender i saw were the 2 at guildford that were slurry carriers i am not sure if the coaches had internal tanks
     
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    ANGENG New Member

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    If you type "southern weedkilling train" into google images you will see the cigarette card that it is featured on. Looks very much like a 6-wheeled van or brake van in the illustration
     
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    The picture on the cigarette card is of the pre-war SR weedkilling train, but there was a post-war train which featured on a publicity photo and which, IIRC, consisted of tank wagons and included a couple of standard "pillbox" brake-vans, hauled by a Q class loco. Actually, the brake-vans were not quite standard; they were the rarer 15 ton type, had been vacuum-fitted and equipped with special tool boxes. Also, they were reputed to be the only SR freight vehicles painted in malachite green. One of the pair, DS455, survives at Mangapps.
     
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