Fuel Tank Wagons
Used for steam locomotive fuel oil between Minffordd, Boston Lodge and Harbour Station. Originally mounted on steel Hudson bogie wagon chassis with wooden floor. Hudsons, unlike the FR, used only one "g" in their wagons.
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Built 1960,***, Bogie wagon, built FR Co. Boston Lodge, ? using welded underframe from former road trailer and Hudson bogies and fittings (ex Smith�s Potato Estates, Nocton, Lincs. No. 35, 1960) fitted with 1,750 gallon riveted cylindrical oil tank. Braked.
Tank cut up and chassis scrapped Feb / March 2012. Hudson bogies remain, but in poor condition.
Source: FR Chronology
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Built 1988,***, Bogie wagon, built FR Co. Boston Lodge, 1988 using welded underframe from former road trailer and ex Polish State Railway (PKP) plate frame bogies surmounted with 1,800 gallon welded oil tank. Source: FR Chronology
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Needs brakes fitting, 2000 gal elliptical tank, built FR - it was this wagon that had a new underframe in order to release the Hudson for the WHR Ltd
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Built 1973,***, Bogie wagon, built FR Co. Boston Lodge, 1973 using welded underframe and ex Polish State Railway (PKP) plate frame bogies surmounted with 2,000 gallon oval oil tank. Braked Source: FR Chronology
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Handbraked, 1000 gal + 300 gal Gas oil tank waggon on WD underframe. Tanks removed in 1999. Ownership transferred & is now destined to be part of the Moseley Railway Trust Museum collection. This is one of the 4 WD type D open wagons acquired by the East Anglian Group of the FRS in 1969 from Leighton Buzzard. They had been bought by Joseph Arnold & Sons for use on the Leighton Buzzard Lt Railway, which had no wagons of its own, all being supplied by the quarry firms. Although supplied to Arnolds by the Gloucester Carriage & Wagon Co, they may have been used wagons ex-WD, as they turned out to incorporate some Hudson parts (WD wagons were supplied by several different builders).
[edit] Acknowledgements
With thanks to research by Dr. Jarvis and Adrian Gray
Notes compiled, in the main, from several published Ffestiniog Railway sources.
