Steel Products and Wagon Loading
Steel comes in a large range of shapes and sizes to suit many needs. Raw slab and billet are sold as such, but most of it is processed into other products, such as, plate, sheet, bar, rod, wire and RHS/RSJ structural beams to name a few. This page will help modellers load their wagons with appropriate size steel products.
Slab 1.25m x 230mm x 12m long
Billet 90-160mm square x 12m long
Feedstock
Blooms 630mm x 400mm x 5-6m long.
Bar
Wire/Rod
Sheet Steel
Coiled Plate Coils range from 1.4m to 2.1m
diameters.
RHS Beams
RSJ Rolled Structural Joist such as I and
H beams come in many cross-section sizes but are sold in lengths from 2.4m
14m, the length increasing in increments of 300mm.
Pipes Pipe traffic has been varied over the
years. Household plumbing pipes were made in short 3ft lengths and gradually
increased over time. Industrial uses for plumbing pipes had pipes made in 40ft
lengths and transported on TME wagons.
Pipes
were generally carried in open wagons, with flat wagons carrying special and
small consignments. Today larger industrial pipe and main gas line piping is
still carried in open wagons.
