7F-063-004 Class B Anchor Mounted Tank National GULF 87 O Gauge Anchor Mounted Tank Wagons ‘Snap-fit’ tender drawbar—a robust solution

‘Snap-fit’ tender drawbar—a robust solution for simple mechanical & electrical connection of the tender

In this role the class continued in service until the 1960’s with the final active locomotive being decommissioned on the Hayling Island Line in Hampshire on November 1963

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Rectangular tanks were a common sight in the latter part of the 19th century and up to the early 1930’s servicing Britain’s booming chemical industry and conveying tar by-products from the numerous municipal gas works found in every larger town and city

The locomotive and tender have electrical pick-up on all driving and tender wheels

7F-063-004 Class B Anchor Mounted Tank National GULF 87 O Gauge Anchor Mounted Tank Wagons ‘Snap-fit’ tender drawbar—a robust solutionIn 1944 a new specification was agreed between the private owners the Petroleum Board and British Railways, the major difference from the 1927 design being that the saddle and cradle timbers, and the end stanchions were abandoned, and the tank anchored to the underframe by a central steel anchor of riveted or welded construction the so called anchor mounting. The supporting saddles were also fabricated from steel. The majority were built 1949 and into