The CDA wagon was a type of hopper railway wagon used by British Rail, and then the privatised railway, to move china clay (kaolin) in South West England. The CDA was based on the same design as the HAA wagons which were used to transport coal, with the prototype CDA being a conversion of the HAA type.

2019年6月1日 · China clay loading points for these wagons in the West Country included the ECC dries at Burngullow, Goonbarrow Junction, Kernick, Marsh Mills, Parkandillack, Pontsmill and Treviscoe.

China clay wagons, also known as kaolin wagons, are specialised railway freight vehicles designed primarily for the transportation of china clay. China clay, or kaolin, is a fine white clay that has significant industrial importance, particularly in the …

2023年8月3日 · English: Railway wagons used to carry china clay (kaolin) in the United Kingdom. This category has only the following subcategory. The following 22 files are in this category, …

2022年4月16日 · The JIA China Clay Wagons, built in 2011 by Arbel Fauvet of France, were ordered to replace the PBA 'Clay Tiger' wagons employed on long distance china clay traffic from the West Country to the Midlands. A relatively small fleet, only 25 wagons, they currently operate on a weekly service between Cornwall and Bescot.

2021年1月4日 · BR built 875 China clay wagons (the first 300 were unfitted when introduced but vacuum brake soon afterwards). They replaced earlier similar wagons, and needed to be unusually small - only 16ft. 6in. over headstocks with 9ft. wheelbase and had an end tippler door

94059 is one of 500 built at Swindon in 1914 to Diagram O13, Lot 777. It is a 4-wheeled 5-plank open tippler wagon with a capacity of 12 tons. The wagons were used until the 1950s to haul china clay from Cornwall to the Staffordshire potteries, and accordingly were latterly given the telegraphic code 'CLAY'.

Cornwall and South Devon had a rich history in the production of China clay and many small branches were opened to allow the railways to carry this important product. Small engines would be working these often lightly laid branches carrying wagons loaded with China clay down to yards on the main line.

These wagons with their tent type canvas hoods and the legend "Not to be moved with the hood down" painted on the side, were once a common sight in the south west of England transporting china clay to the midlands potteries, but are now extinct on the main lines as traffic is carried as a slurry in tank wagons.

2021年2月6日 · In 1987 BR introduced a fleet of 125 wagons to carry china clay within the West Country. They replaced small open end tippler wagons. A selection of wagons recorded when reasonably new.