Containers still by the WCML

[CosherB]

Travelled down to Euston from Cheshire on Friday, back on Monday. It was 'the slow train' - 14:25 Pendo from Wilmslow, stopping at Crewe, Lichfield TV, Tamworth, Nuneaton, Rugby, Northampton, and Milton Keynes. So it was not going very fast and was on the slow lines until Ledburn Junction, so I had plenty of time to look at the lineside scenery.

In the area of Ledburn Junction, just north of Cheddington, at least two of the containers blown of a train quite a while back are still there! Wonder why they've not been taken away for scrap (they are a bit bent!)?

CS

 

[P156KWJ]

ha! strange that. Most of the railway stuf that's left behind next to my house is P-way stuff :roll: network snail recently left a crate of bolts and keys behind

 

[Nym]

theres still railway sleepers left on platform 7 at BDT from before I left there, over a year ago now!

 

[class 313]

Would they not house items or would they have been stripped out by now?

 

[O L Leigh]

It's not going to be a simple matter to recover freight containers from the middle of nowhere. Presumably they still belong to the freight leasing company, so I'm assuming it will be down to them to arrange for their disposal. Then again, I can't see the scrap value of these boxes recouping the costs of their recovery, so I don't expect they will be in any great rush.

O L Leigh

 

[Mojo]

Well you never know... someone I work with has a husband who works for a company who modify these shipping containers into storage facilities, offices and even toilets!

 

[TheSlash]

ha! strange that. Most of the railway stuf that's left behind next to my house is P-way stuff :roll: network snail recently left a crate of bolts and keys behind

Probably a store point for the local maintenance guys. It's quite common to lay out a bag of keys every 1/4 mile, so the patrol has some easily available to replace those that are missing.

As for the containers, if they are bent up then they are probably no use and will be cut up for scrap and recovered during a scrap recovery drive {February/March }

 

[D306]

Travelled down to Euston from Cheshire on Friday, back on Monday. It was 'the slow train' - 14:25 Pendo from Wilmslow, stopping at Crewe, Lichfield TV, Tamworth, Nuneaton, Rugby, Northampton, and Milton Keynes. So it was not going very fast and was on the slow lines until Ledburn Junction, so I had plenty of time to look at the lineside scenery.

In the area of Ledburn Junction, just north of Cheddington, at least two of the containers blown of a train quite a while back are still there! Wonder why they've not been taken away for scrap (they are a bit bent!)?

CS

As TheSlash said, they are for the Railway contractors. There's a couple up by me, for rail maintenance, and also are getting the WCML up and down fast to be ready for 125MPH only

 

[mbonwick]

Well up with us there is the permenant engineers store (2 containers), the temporary containers for possesions and a whole load of scrap rail from a posession 1 1/2 months ago.

 

[D306]

Oh yeh, I forgot about the possessions. The WCML is being blocked each weekend now untill next year for 125mph running