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  • MLP RR - 8PB 06195

    10 March 2010 - Trevor Prothero

    It is at Lynemouth on the curve heading towards the smelter and power station and is on Alcan infrastructure

  • DR 73215

    10 March 2010 - Mark

    Did it have to be cut up into very small chunks to be craned off then?

  • DRK 81612

    10 March 2010 - Ash Bird

    You still can't beat a slinger that knows where to put the slings!

  • Brecknell Willis RR - Q826 GHG

    9 March 2010 - Ben Williams

    Believe it or not this is the same Unimog that is currently stored at Quattro's Willenhall! And the one behind is also still around with Antagrade Electrical - last seen near Canning Town a couple of weeks ago (but now without rail wheels.)

  • Bance Trolley 137/04 & Permaquip Trailer TR117

    9 March 2010 - David French

    I can recall seeing an old Permaquip brochure which had a publicity picture of the Land Rover and trailer set up on on rail. The idea was/is that a group of firemen and their kit could be conveyed into Severn Tunnel on longitudinal bench seats in the trailer. They would enter and exit via that door in the end of the trailer. Casualties could be evacuated on the return journey out of the tunnel.

  • Bance Trolley 137/04 & Permaquip Trailer TR117

    9 March 2010 - Ben Williams

    And again the photo of the ensemble

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/byjr/3572859397/in/pool-avonfire

    Doesn't really help though!

  • Bance Trolley 137/04 & Permaquip Trailer TR117

    9 March 2010 - Ben Williams

    No I'm sure the Land Rover would tow the trailer in rail mode. Getting the Bance off the rail trolley is another good point though! Maybe they do have a crane involved too... Odd.

  • Unimog

    9 March 2010 - Ken Scanes

    Re: the Dowty "R/R" - I don't think it is road/rail convertible, I think it is a lorry converted for rail use. AFAIK it is now (since June 2006) at R Hunt, Titley Junction, Herefords.

  • Bance Trolley 137/04 & Permaquip Trailer TR117

    9 March 2010 - Ken Scanes

    OK, so you've off-loaded the Permaquip trailer from the road trailer onto rail. Now what? Take the Bance off the Permaquip onto rail? (By hand?) Then what? Does the Bance tow the Permaquip (it looks too big)? Why? But if not, what is the Permaquip trailer for? I'm puzzled by the whole modus operandi here!

  • Bance Trolley 137/04 & Permaquip Trailer TR117

    8 March 2010 - Ben Williams

    Hmm yes there does seem to be a winch cable underneath. I think needing a Hiab as well would make the whole thing very expensive and time-consuming! Wonder when it was last used on rail...

  • Story Rail

    8 March 2010 - Dave Shell - Northumbria Rail Ltd.

    527 carries euro no 99709 940566-2.

  • Bradshaw RR - 83

    8 March 2010 - Dave Shell - Northumbria Rail Ltd.

    Just plumb it in to the auxillary hydraulic supply

  • Bance Trolley 137/04 & Permaquip Trailer TR117

    8 March 2010 - David French

    Just a guess but maybe the road trailer tilts down at the back and there's a winch inside that plywood box at the front which unspools to let the rail trailer down and winds it back on for loading. Having said that I don't see a rail set into the deck for the rail trailer to run along for that method to work. Prehaps it's just craned on and off by a second vehicle equipped with a HIAB which accompanies the Land Rover and trailer combination when it's off on a "shout" ?

  • Bance Trolley 137/04 & Permaquip Trailer TR117

    8 March 2010 - Ben Williams

    I think this lot is towed by the Land Rover but not sure how they get the trailer off the trailer?! Ramp that comes out the back?

  • Unimog

    8 March 2010 - Martin Allen

    Gents, Thanks for putting a number to the Unimog after all these years. It was not carrying any numberplates when I took the photo.

    No one mentioned the APT car lurking in the background!

  • Bradshaw RR - 83

    7 March 2010 - martin phelan

    thanks, to make it work on an rubberduck, you got to change the seals in it??

  • Bradshaw RR - 83

    7 March 2010 - David French

    It's a McConnell I think.

  • Bradshaw RR - 83

    7 March 2010 - martin phelan

    hi what make of flail is this??

  • Unimog

    6 March 2010 - Simon Warnes

    I found these two video's on British Pathe a while back,

    An early RRV Unimog and Land Rover,

    http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=45783

    http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=1224

    Note the RRV Land Rover is towards end of the video clip,

    Simon,

  • Total Rail Solutions RR - 701

    5 March 2010 - Ben Williams

    If anyone has any more on this machine it would be appreciated. It featured in RI magazine and that suggested it was a new one but its not really clear as it also looks like a converted 988. A build number would confirm it.

  • Unimog

    5 March 2010 - Ben Williams

    Anyone got any pics of this (or any other) early RRVs please? I'm sure we'd all be interested to see them!

  • Unimog

    5 March 2010 - David French

    All gone now I'm afraid. It got scrapped in Winchcombe yard a couple of years ago. It had been stored out of use for many many years and was simply too far gone to be a viable restoration project. So I've been told it was used in the early years of the GWR but it had it's limitations: fast enough going forwards but very slow in reverse, and the fuel consumption (it was petrol) was gallons to the mile rather than miles to the gallon.

  • Unimog

    5 March 2010 - Phil Scott

    The ex-Dowty R/R was preserved by the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, but I don't know if it is still there. I haven't seen it myself, but it could be stored out of view. Does anyone have any further details of this Dowty R/R?

  • Unimog

    5 March 2010 - Bryan Blundell

    I remember seeing an ex army Bedford or similar at Dowty Ashchurch? with R/R wheels in the mid 70s

  • Unimog

    5 March 2010 - Robin Morel

    With "J" prefix plates being of year 1970, was this one of the first true road railers to operate ?

    The next two unimogs being 1981 (kyh 962x) and 1982 (dwu 335y) the prototype zweiweg breakdon vans ( prior to order being placed with BRUFF)

    This machine all be it re registered now quite possibly the first road railer in use on the mainline system ?