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Artics for B.R.'s New Bulk Coal Service

7th September 1962
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'FIVE Albion Clydesdale tractive units Iand nine B.T.C. Four-in-Line semitrailers with 12-ton-capacity bodies built by Charrold, Ltd., are used in a new bulk coal road delivery service operated by the Eastern Region of British Railways at Enfield Chase, Middlesex.

The new depot at Enfield Chase began operation last week and is specially equipped with automatic handling aids to enable the vehicles to be loaded without coal being broken or de-graded. The coal or other solid fuel is discharged through the bottom doors of the rail wagons into a hopper below the track and carried by conveyor belt to a point high enough to enable it to be loaded by chute into the waiting semi-trailers. The equipment is capable of handling 100 tons an hour, and the .depot will handle some 40,000 tons of solid fuel each year.

The semi-trailers have a built-in delivery chute at the rear to discharge coal at traders' depots; the discharge assembly, which can be swung in an arc, is operated by one man.

The scheme has the support of the Coal Trade Association, local coal traders and the National Coal Board and, at present, serves those traders with depots on the Hertford branch line. B.R. expect to extend the service later to traders with depots on the High Barnet branch line.


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