PCA Bulk Cement - Rugby Cement - Pack 6 Locomotive Class_Class 50 Battery & Charging

Battery & Charging

once ubiquitous from the late 2000s almost anywhere between Chester / Sheffield and Carlisle / Newcastle

Allocated to Stratford’s FAGS aggregates pool in March 1989 it was repainted in triple grey at Vic Berry Limited

1/107 pattern

This saw it given a crest above the nameplate on each side – notably in BR service it had only worn a single example

PCA Bulk Cement - Rugby Cement - Pack 6 Locomotive Class_Class 50 Battery & ChargingBuilt by CFMF of France for wagon leasing company STS (later VTG), the 50 PCA bulk cement wagons of the PC017B design diagram began entering service in 1982. A further batch of 15 wagons was manufactured in 1985 by another French firm, Fauvet Girel, and assigned the PC017C design code. Companies such as Blue Circle and Rugby Cement have leased these vehicles during their time in traffic.