Today was going to be my day at being a shunter - had the Rocks By Rail Museum been able to open. As I posted some days ago it can not open so today I played with the oversized washing machine cleaning ballast!
There is a lot of clean ballast needed yet, just around this point will need about ten to fifteen tons.
Luckily, we can at least now use the Dogfish ballast wagon to get the ballast up into the platform area.
Why is the wagon called a dogfish? Apparently, the term "dogfish" was a telegraph code used by BR to refer to this particular wagon type, along with other "fish" names for different types of civil engineering vehicles. So there you go!
Anyway, as you tell by the pictures, it was a wet and I mean wet day. Not only the rain made me wet but the water from the oversized washing machine managed to soak me too! So I am off to warm up in a pleasant hot bath!
And as a result of your post I have now discovered that not all of the “fish” were, er fishes. But I know you knew that and didn’t want to confuse your readers.
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Plenty more fish in the marshalling yard - sorry I mean sea!
DeleteFor your insomnia cure a partial list of fish related rolling stock: -
Dogfish: A general term for small sharks, these wagons were often ballast hoppers.
Catfish: Used for ballast hoppers.
Carp: Used for various spoil and ballast wagons.
Brill: Refers to bogie rail or sleeper wagons.
Bream: Used for runner/spacer wagons.
Other fish names: Other fish names were also used, such as Mermaid and Grampus, for various engineering wagons.
Insomnia called and I found these.
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Mrs B