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A Class Ow goods wagon on the Saxon narrow gauge railways with Heberlein brakes Open wagon for peat, 750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) . An open wagon (or truck in the UK) forms a large group of railway goods wagons designed primarily for the transportation of bulk goods that are not moisture-retentive and can usually be tipped, dumped or shovelled.
Unnofficial Name [1] Plaice: ZCV 4 Wheel Open Wagon Pollock: ZCA Open Wagon Porpoise: YEA Bogie Chute Wagon Used as part of a continuous welded rail train [1] Prawn: YNO Bogie Flat Wagon Puffin: ZCV 4 Wheel Spoil Wagon Converted from a Catfish wagon [1] Roach: ZDA 4 Wheel Open Wagon [2] Rudd: ZBA 4 Wheel Open Wagon Salmon: YFA / YMA / YMB / YMO ...
NPH 1 was built on the standard design of underframe as most other narrow-gauge stock, but because it was not anticipated that explosives traffic would require use of the entire wagon, it was partitioned to give 4 long tons (4.1 t; 4.5 short tons) capacity for explosives, while the remaining 6 tons was for general goods.
The Victorian Railways elected to tack on to that order two louvre vans, two flat cars and two open wagons, becoming 1 and 2 V, S and E respectively; the equivalents of the South Australian Railways M, Fb and O types, along with a class of 12 J-type hopper wagons.
KW 1, the woodchip wagon, was converted from open wagon IA 10632 in 1967. It had tall ends, but the sides were replaced with a braced framework supporting four outward-swinging mesh sheet doors each. It had tall ends, but the sides were replaced with a braced framework supporting four outward-swinging mesh sheet doors each.
The Victorian Railways used a variety of former traffic wagons around depots and for specific construction, maintenance and similar tasks. Very few of these vehicles were specially constructed from scratch, often instead recycling components or whole wagon bodies and frames from old vehicles that had been withdrawn from normal service as life-expired or superseded by a better design.
7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) Buckfastleigh [92] 1978–7017 NWR: 3157 Vulcan Foundry: 2764 1911 4-4-0: 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) Manchester [93] Y1982.2 GWR: North Star: Star (replica) GWR Swindon: 1925 [Note 55] 2-2-2: 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) Swindon [94] 1978–7011 GWR Iron Duke: Iron Duke (replica) Resco Railways 1985 [Note 56] 4-2-2: 7 ft 1 ...
This was usually painted onto the wagon and it became common to refer to them by these names even when not using the telegraph. Many had an extra letter added to identify distinctive features, for example a 'Macaw A' was a 17 feet (5.2 m) bolster wagon, but a 'Macaw B' was a 45 feet (14 m) bolster wagon. [10]