‘OO’ YCV ‘Turbot’
Apr 16, 2019
3 minutes
REVIEW
FIRST constructed in 1982, the YCV 34t ‘Turbot’ ballast wagon was one of those shrewd reuses of redundant revenue wagons to provide new ballast and spoil wagons for infrastructure duties.
They were constructed on the underframes of Bogie Bolster E wagons that fell out of use for various reasons, including their restricted length making them useless for most steel traffic as bolster wagons. Constructed in 1960 and 1961, most of the 1200-strong fleet of Bogie Bolster E wagons were in fairly good condition when earmarked for conversion to ‘Turbot’, a process that retained the
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