Tom Pudding barges
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ClaudeInteresting. Never heard of it until now. It would make an interesting idea for trainz.
Claude, see here:
http://www.goole-on-the-web.org.uk/main.php?key=189
Kenny
Claude, see here:
http://www.goole-on-the-web.org.uk/main.php?key=189
Kenny
Barges
Form what I have gleaned they were taken to Goole and then tipped over and emptied in a tippler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Pudding
One startling innovation on the Aire and Calder Navigation was the development in the 1860s of the 'Tom Pudding' trains. These were long lines of big floating boxes, or skips, each carrying about 40 tons of coal. When joined closely together and towed by a tug they formed one long flexible barge but on arrival at Goole docks the train was disconnected and each container was lifted out of the water individually and tipped into a waiting coasting collier. Although this original system was finally discontinued in the 1980s (and only five old containers remain afloat) the concept is still in efficient operation with bigger containers, moved by modern push tugs in rigid lines of three to Ferrybridge power station. Each one-man tug now pushes about 500 tons.
Form what I have gleaned they were taken to Goole and then tipped over and emptied in a tippler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Pudding
One startling innovation on the Aire and Calder Navigation was the development in the 1860s of the 'Tom Pudding' trains. These were long lines of big floating boxes, or skips, each carrying about 40 tons of coal. When joined closely together and towed by a tug they formed one long flexible barge but on arrival at Goole docks the train was disconnected and each container was lifted out of the water individually and tipped into a waiting coasting collier. Although this original system was finally discontinued in the 1980s (and only five old containers remain afloat) the concept is still in efficient operation with bigger containers, moved by modern push tugs in rigid lines of three to Ferrybridge power station. Each one-man tug now pushes about 500 tons.