I love all the coal and Coke Wagons made by Mainline. They are very fine in scale compared to Hornby back then. I remember Coalite at home. I used to live in beckenham. We had central heating and open fires. Our central heating was coal fired, that was back in the 60s.
Nice one Barry and thanks for showing these , they look great .and like the Coallight and the Cambrian coal ones ,and all that writing ,mainline were good at this one their wagons .
Hello Barry, another informative video. Re Cambrian Coke, Best washed from Briton Ferry (Neath, Port Talbot Sth Wales), many years ago I had read that soft Welsh coal needed to be washed and graded due to the relatively high dirt content. Coke being a manufactured product, would also need to be free of contaminants when used in either a foundry or furnace to ensure a consistent burn, as any impurities would end up, and possibly effect, the end product. As an aside, scrap metal from motor vehicles has a small but significant quantity of copper and tin that is not separated during the melting process, and this trace element needs to be kept below 0.2%, hence the use of other non ferris tainted scrap needs to be mixed with motor vehicle scrap to achieve a suitable new steel of acceptable quality. Best wishes and regards from Australia.
Hello Barry, Dinnington was on the South Yorkshire Joint Railway / SYJ, near Rotherham. According to H C Casserley's "Britain's Joint Lines" (Ian Allan Ltd, 1968 pp153-154, the South Yorkshire Joint Committee (GNR, GCR, L&YR, MR, NER; later LNER&LMS) of 1909, and was one of four Joint Line arrangements to allow access to the South Yorkshire coalfields opened between 1909 and 1916.Also Reference Map 21 of "British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas, 5th Edition" (Ian Allan Ltd, 1972), regards from Australia.
I have Mainline class 56, I had it 42 years, bought in Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, still running, I just bought an GWR Mogul from Rails of Sheffield through eBay, Mainline are well
Baz it was Dapol acquired the stock and intellectual assets from Mainline and former Airfix the tooling from Palitoy, but the tooling for Palitoy Mainline Railways was owned by Kadar of Hong Kong. Godfrey Hayes of Replica Railways discovered the tools belonged to Kadar and approached them in 1984. Kadar then produced the wagons for Replica. Dapol took Replica to court but they then come to an agreement. However Kadar was the primary manufacturer for Bachmann and the Replica wagons have Bachmann moulded under the Replica Wagons. Kadar purchased Bachmann in 1987 this signalled the end for Replica. Bachmann Industries Europe was formed 1989 and the former Mainline range became the core and basis of their products for the British market so Mainline tools was denied Replica 1990. Now under Bachmann they continued production and the basis continues today. 👨✈️🚂👍
Brilliant so informative regards Sam Woodward
I love all the coal and Coke Wagons made by Mainline. They are very fine in scale compared to Hornby back then.
I remember Coalite at home. I used to live in beckenham. We had central heating and open fires. Our central heating was coal fired, that was back in the 60s.
Nice one Barry and thanks for showing these , they look great .and like the Coallight and the Cambrian coal ones ,and all that writing ,mainline were good at this one their wagons .
Hello Barry, another informative video. Re Cambrian Coke, Best washed from Briton Ferry (Neath, Port Talbot Sth Wales), many years ago I had read that soft Welsh coal needed to be washed and graded due to the relatively high dirt content. Coke being a manufactured product, would also need to be free of contaminants when used in either a foundry or furnace to ensure a consistent burn, as any impurities would end up, and possibly effect, the end product. As an aside, scrap metal from motor vehicles has a small but significant quantity of copper and tin that is not separated during the melting process, and this trace element needs to be kept below 0.2%, hence the use of other non ferris tainted scrap needs to be mixed with motor vehicle scrap to achieve a suitable new steel of acceptable quality. Best wishes and regards from Australia.
Wow! I actually have one of those bachmann pink Coalite coke wagons. I never realised they were hard to come by, thanks Barrie.
Hello Barry, Dinnington was on the South Yorkshire Joint Railway / SYJ, near Rotherham. According to H C Casserley's "Britain's Joint Lines" (Ian Allan Ltd, 1968 pp153-154, the South Yorkshire Joint Committee (GNR, GCR, L&YR, MR, NER; later LNER&LMS) of 1909, and was one of four Joint Line arrangements to allow access to the South Yorkshire coalfields opened between 1909 and 1916.Also Reference Map 21 of "British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas, 5th Edition" (Ian Allan Ltd, 1972), regards from Australia.
I have Mainline class 56, I had it 42 years, bought in Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, still running, I just bought an GWR Mogul from Rails of Sheffield through eBay, Mainline are well
Baz it was Dapol acquired the stock and intellectual assets from Mainline and former Airfix the tooling from Palitoy, but the tooling for Palitoy Mainline Railways was owned by Kadar of Hong Kong. Godfrey Hayes of Replica Railways discovered the tools belonged to Kadar and approached them in 1984. Kadar then produced the wagons for Replica. Dapol took Replica to court but they then come to an agreement. However Kadar was the primary manufacturer for Bachmann and the Replica wagons have Bachmann moulded under the Replica Wagons. Kadar purchased Bachmann in 1987 this signalled the end for Replica. Bachmann Industries Europe was formed 1989 and the former Mainline range became the core and basis of their products for the British market so Mainline tools was denied Replica 1990. Now under Bachmann they continued production and the basis continues today. 👨✈️🚂👍
Coke wagons ?we need some crack wagons 😅
nice wagons keep up the vids you do on channel thanks four the vids you do on channel