THE National Wagon Preservation Group’s ‘Project Petroleum’ fundraising scheme (see RE321) raised a significant five-figure sum during December and January, allowing the team to purchase nine two-axle TTA tank wagons from the batch of 22 that moved south from Grangemouth to Gascoigne Wood on November 15.
Two others will be acquired by group members privately. A further pair, Nos. VTG 60874/9 (both built Norbitt-Pickering, 1966), will be heading to a new life at the Great Central Railway. One will join the Quorn Wagon & Wagon group’s fleet of superbly restored two-axle tanks, which