ALTHOUGH the past few decades have seen hundreds of Bogie Bolster D and ‘Salmon’-based vehicles being sent for scrap, a rump of useful wagons still remained in service.
This changed at beginning of October as DB Cargo UK began to make serious inroads into the two fleets, with just under 100 vehicles making their final journey during that period.
The arrival of hundreds of new Network Rail bogie flat and box wagons leased from Wascosa, combined with the Loram Rail’s JNA-Y programme, has had a huge impact on the legacy wagon fleet. This has so far manifested itself with the withdrawal of the 1990s-2000s period ballast/spoil open conversions that
