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BR Railfreight Sectors  - Logo's & Sector Types
 

             COAL Sector   -  The largest of the four Railfreight Sectors with over 200 locomotives and 10,000 wagons.  These were primarily involved with the transportation of coal - in 'Merry-Go-Round' Wagon formations - from collieries. Locomotives were mainly based at Toton, Cardiff Canton, Eastfield, Crewe Diesel & Swansea Landore Depots.   Class 58's were the largest group (some 50 locomotives) followed by Class 56's, Class 37's (mainly allocated South Wales Depots) and from 1990 Class 60's.  Class 26's were used on shorter MGR Routes in Scotland. One Named Class 08 ' Kidwelly' was attached to the South Wales Fleet.

 

Class 31's in this Sector were used for Nuclear Flask transportation.

 

         CONSTRUCTION Sector     -   This Sector centred around the movement of aggregates and cement involved in the Construction Industries.  Concentration of locomotives were in the Peak District of Derbyshire, the Leicestershire Quarry areas, movement of stone from the Mendips to the London & immediate district areas.

                                      Flow Cement from Hope, again in Derbyshire and also near Dunbar.  The construction of the Channel tunnel involved the Sector in the movement of pre-cast tunnel linings and stone to the construction are in Kent. Depots were Buxton(Tinsley), Eastfield, Immingham, Stewarts Lane, Stratford, Thornaby, & Toton,    Classes involved in this Construction Livery were : Class 31, Class 33, Class 37, Class 47, Class 56 & Class 60. Of these Classes 47 & 60 were the largest with approximately 25 locomotives of each of those Classes.

                                      Often in the London area Class 33's were double headed for Channel Tunnel work.

 

       PETROLEUM Sector     -   Transportation of Petrol  & Chemical based products.  This covered a very large area of the UK using over 110 locomotives from groups - Class  31, Class 37, Class 47, Class 56(1 Only), Class 60 and the inevitable 1 x Class 08.
                                      Operational Areas, in the main, were Immingham, Ellesmere Port & Stanlow, North Thames, Grangemouth, West Wales.  (Immingham had the Cl 08).  Class 31's, Cl 37's & Cl 60's  from Immingham,  Cl 47's from Stanlow , Class 37's from Grangemeouth, Cl 37's & Cl 60's from West Wales. Depots were Crewe Diesel, Cardiff Canton, Stratford, Immingham & Eastfield. 

 

 

      METALS & AUTOMOTIVE Sector    -   The movement of the materials involved in the production of steel, its finished product (sheet, plate, coil, wire & billets)(car parts, car bodies & completed cars) were covered by this BR Sector together with iron ore & limestone to Llanwern, Scunthorpe, Teeside & Ravenscraig.   Class 37's were the main types involved in the Sector, supported with Cl 47, 56 & 60. Depots were Cardiff Canton, Eastfield, Immingham, Motherwell & Thornaby. The largest Class involved were 47's, followed by Class37 and then Class 56 & 60. A small number of Cl 20's were used in the early stages.

 

 

        GENERAL Sector     -     This Sector never really found a market to justify the original intention, which was to cover Industrial & Commercial segments that were not catered for as specialised subjects.  From information we have obtained only 3 locomotives were converted to this Livery - 1 x Cl 50 & 2 x Cl 86.
                                    We would be very grateful for any further information we could incorporate in this Sector'

 

 

Our sincere acknowledgements to ' Model Rail ' for the information we have incorporated into this Page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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