Road Planer Memories?

modelman093 · Post #1 by **modelman093** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:12 pm

The great pic of the Limmer and Trinidad "tar boiler" in the last posting prompts me to ask does anyone have any recollections/pics of the road planing trains that were operated by by a company that I believe was called East Anglian Road Stone or something similar.
I have hazy memories of the device being pulled by one of the old Scammells with the "coffee pot" radiators.
Angus

bob · Post #2 by **bob** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:08 pm

[quote="modelman093"]The great pic of the Limmer and Trinidad "tar boiler" in the last posting prompts me to ask does anyone have any recollections/pics of the road planing trains that were operated by by a company that I believe was called East Anglian Road Stone

east anglian road stone where taken over by Tilbury I would have thought early seventys
Bob

XS650 · Post #3 by **XS650** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:17 am

'Up north' Glossops used to have ex-WD Scammell tank transporters pulling gigantic burners that heated up the tarmac that was then scraped off by a loading shovel . Used to fascinate me as a kid as they generated lots of heat and noise .
Hot planing as opposed to what they now call cold planing with an abrasive drum .

Ian Fletcher1970 · Post #4 by **Ian Fletcher1970** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 7:38 pm

bob wrote:
modelman093 wrote:The great pic of the Limmer and Trinidad "tar boiler" in the last posting prompts me to ask does anyone have any recollections/pics of the road planing trains that were operated by by a company that I believe was called East Anglian Road Stone

east anglian road stone where taken over by Tilbury I would have thought early seventys
Bob

Here's a picture I recently acquired via E-Bay of a Tilbury Road Planing Train

Ian

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