New VTG tanks for Heathrow fuel train
SOME five-and-a-half years since the last batch of bogie TEA tank wagons arrived in the UK, VTG Rail UK has taken delivery of the first 21 of a planned fleet of 42 aviation fuel tankers from Greenbrier Europe’s plant in Swidnica, Poland. They are numbered Nos. 81 70 7836 000-2 to 81 70 7836 041-6 with the TOPS code TEA-L and design code TE049A.
The new wagons continue the growing trend of dropping the ‘f’ from the UIC/ERA code. The last group to arrive, the
