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RAIL TANK WAGON 37½ FT. BOGIE

RAIL TANK WAGON 37½ FT. BOGIE

Scale as reproduced 1:64

We could not find a photo of Uc740 which had Garratt water tanks fitted in 1937. The plan above shows 16’6” (5 M) tanks which was the length of the front Garratt water tank, the rear ones were shorter. However the photo on the left shows two of the Garratt front water tanks fitted to what appears to be ex Ug horse box under frames which were 25 feet (7.62 M) long. This could be backed up by Reference: Addington Railway Workshops by Keith G Brown).

In the late 1950s the workshop boilers at the Addington workshops were changed to oil firing, deliveries being made every second day, the oil stored in two disused water tanks off the Beyer Peacock Garratt locomotives. The tanks were later mounted on Ub tank wagons and used for transport of fertilizer to Kempthorne Prosser fertilizer works in Hornby around 1963.