Save or Scrap? - 14T Esso Tank Wagon!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ย. 2023
- Welcome an un-planned addition to the Wardle Restorations fleet. Today we take a look around the 14T Tank Wagon!
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What a great video , am so pleased you have managed to save this tank wagon. I think it's very important to save our fright wagons for prosperity ,they are as much a part of our railway heritage as are locomotives. I wish you all the best in the restoration of this historical tank wagon. I look forward to seeing how the restoration comes along. My very best wishes. 👍🚂🚃
Hi Ollie, Your Esso tank was built by G.R. Turner, Langley Mills, Derbyshire in as you said 1939, to a Shell Mex / BP 14ton design for the Air Ministry AM268 was the orginal number, as a class A aviation sprit tank. diagram RCH1927. to Esso as class B tank as ESSO1855. LMS reg No.165396 well done on another unplanned purchase! There was another tank wagon which came the CVR from Fords Dagenham, of the same design whicch was later sold off.
I suspect that this was one of 16 rail tank cars stored in a siding at Esso's Modewheel terminal in Manchester in the mid 1970s. They were banned from the national rail network because they were loose coupled and had no vacuum brakes and were no longer permitted. They were used as temporary storage while the terminal was rebuilt.I worked for Esso at the time and saw them on a visit to the terminal. Subsequently, when the building work was complete and they were no longer needed I bought them for one pound each in an
As a child in the 40s/50s, I had a small Hornby Dublo, Double O Gauge electric train set. Included in the set was a very attractive 14T tank wagon. Gloss silver painted main body, with a large red, white and blue classic "Esso" logo on each side, black chassis and wheels. It was a beautiful model! I never saw one like it in real life but I lived in hope.
It can be silver and red, black, green and yellow. But please be very careful, Ollie. You're dealing with a petrol tanker. Don't work on it in hot weather, because if a fire spreads and engulfs the tanker, it will explode. I don't want to lose my good friend here. On top of that, Christmas is on the horizon and I really miss Wardle Wednesdays, where we all get a spin of your wheel.
I have only just found the vid of the tank wagon restoration. These tankers are so iconic of British Railways and it will be great to see one getting the Wardle Restorations treatment along with the brake van and box van. Hats off to you for putting in so much effort to preserving these important wagons!! I am very much looking forward to seeing more updates.
great work Ollie, so good to see stuff not being scrapped
Good luck with your latest project, and thank you for saving another wagon.
I much enjoyed this video Ollie. Well done for saving this tank wagon. I’m sure it will fantastic and as good as new in due time.
Can’t wait to see some resto on that tank wagon, it should look great once completed. How about an update on the wagon and the guard van sometime
I think it’s great that you are doing so much to preserve our railway heritage. Best of luck with the restoration. Excellent video.
Well, Ollie, be careful, wagons are addictive and you don’t want to spread yourself too thin. At least the tank has minimal wood, so a good needle gunning and paint, and it could be a quick turn around, so you feel you achieve something, you don’t want too many started projects to make you feel snowed under. Good luck, and keep it up
Beautiful car. It would be neat to see it as war on one side and esso on the other that way depending on how it’s photographed its like 2 different cars!
Pleased to see this will be saved As a kid I remember 3 x of tank wagons something like this being cut up at a factory They had cut one in half when we got there attracted by a huge amount of black smoke that turned out to be from a storage tank being cut up that had caught fire. The fire had spread and fire brigade had to be called. As another has commented better to be careful with that toxic stuff you found dripping out don't want an explosion or injury. I think they use steam to clean out chemical tanks so perhaps a good idea to look into what will be the best way to do it safely
I am glad to see that this freight car is going to restored. I would buy a Class 60 and do the same but sadly I don't have the space for one yet but when I do. I plan to have mine on display at the Illinois Railroad Museum.
Well done you for saving it.
I think the tank wagon was probably under coated in a yellow primer then covered with red lead before being painted in Esso Black. You could try accessing the Airfix/ Hornby database.
That dark oilly gunk is probably why the tank hasn't rotted out. It's preserved.
Very interesseting video Ollie, thumbs up :) Looking forward to following your channel. Greetings from Denmark :)
Keep up the good work buddy. Hear from Australia can not wait to see the Brake van finished.