Can anyone please let me know the wagon configuration for locomotives hauling gunpowder vans? I am interested in the Cleveland Ironstone District, and the ironstone mining industry used gunpowder to mine the ironstone, as its detonation rate was much slower, so it heaved the ironstone, rather than shattering it.
The gunpowder was conveyed to the mine's powder magazines by rail, but I don't know the configuration of empty barrier wagons that were used to protect the locomotive crew or guard's van from any accidental explosion. I know that trains of tank wagons may have had a single barrier wagon at each end, but was this the case when moving gunpowder vans?
Many thanks
Greedy Boards
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