New livestock train on the L&TR

[pilotfriend]

What period is the railway? Liming of livestock wagons was banned after the war.

[Tigger]

Really??  Oh RATS!!!  That means that the Buccabury cattle vans are wrong!  (Buccabury is circa 1962).  Don't really want to go fiddling with the vans on Buccabury but many thanks for the info - the L&TR is August 1952 so I'll not be liming these new vans.  I guess it was all done with Jeyes Fluid by then?

[pilotfriend]

Sorry about that Tigger. The practice was banned circa 1947/8 as lime was found to cause damage to animals' hoofs. Get a nice photo and one jerk always spoils it.

[MickT]

Don't worry about it Tigger. Just don't call it "lime". My own cattle wagons are awash around the underparts with whitish daubs and will stay that way - justification on the M&IR is that the disinfectant wash that is used just happens to turn into a semi transparent whitish grey sort of hue when the concentrate is mixed with water - have a look at what Jeyes Fluid looks like if you pour a bit from the bottle into the bog, that's good enough for me anyway.

Mick

[Tigger]

Seriously John, I appreciated the advice!  Love the photo!  I just won't call it lime on Buccabury, Mick.  Luckily the advice came in time for the L&TR vans!

[Tigger]

Greetings folks -
Almost finished the main Winter Works Programme of building new goods vehicles!
Here's the ex-works photos of one cattle van and one sheep wagon.  The latest production from the L&TR workshops.
As you can see the sheep wagon is already populated.  I'm still re-painting the cattle!
There only remains some weathering and then they'll go into service on the railway.
To weave some authenticity around things, the wagons are used to transport sheep to the farmers up and down the line but as for the vans...
There are three cattle farmers in the Ffernol Valley.  Two of them run beef herds, of Welsh Blacks and Herefords respectively.  The other runs a mixed herd of milking Jerseys and Gurnseys.