6 WHEEL MILK TANKERS

Good point, '2500 plus milk tank' would be about as long as a pacific plus tender for turning purposes, but not turning it and not having to do any fancy shunting moves would be ideal ...
As for painting it why not run it as it would have been - Express Dairies, United Dairies, or a more contemporary 'Associated Dairies' (or asda as they are now sponsorship ?))...
Max allowed speed is going to be 60 forward, but since these locos we're designed to run just as happily in reverse (with arguably better visibility in this direction...
Incidently whats the load allowed on a GUV
an do you know what a CCT IS ?
Thanks

 

I agree to paint it as it would have been. There are various options - plain silver, white, blue, and I know that some on the LMS ran in maroon. I don't know what the max. load is for a GUV. A CCT is the four wheeler version of the GUV, much like a Southern Railway PMV. They were phased out quicker, perhaps because of issues with the rigid wheelbase at speed, but there are plenty in preservation.

 

A GUV was built for a distributed load of about 13 or 14 Tons, that's about 3,000 Gallons I think.
A CCT is the 4w version, (CCT=Covered Carriage Truck) with a designed payload of just under 10 Tons, or say 2,000 Gallons.

(Isn't Wikipedia a wonderful memory jogger?)

 

Does anyone know which milk tanks donated their underframes to the 6-wheeled water tanks?

 

Water carrier DW102 built Swindon 1946 to Diagram DD6 is preserved at the West Somerset Railway.

 

I think the underframes for DW101/2, where the same as the milk tanks. But they were built new for the water carriers.

 

Hi all, dragging this one up from the archives...

Does anyone know if any 6 wheeled milk tanks survive, but without a chassis?

Alternatively, of any companies who might be able to produce a replica tank, perhaps from steel or even fibreglass?

Regards,

Paul

 

I ndon't know of any tanks without a chassis underneath of them, but if you wanted to build a replica tank, you could do worse than contact a boiler maker as boiler shops often ended up making such things as they bhad the kit and the know how to make them water tight.

 

Thanks for this, just wondering what is out there to help a potential project.

Regards, Paul

 

There is an interesting anecdote mentioned in Gould's book on Southern vans, a hangover from the fact that the tanks were dairy owned but the underframes were railway owned: When 4430 was preserved by the Bluebell, the dairy company donated the tank to the railway for nothing, but BR insisted on a payment for the underframe!

Tom