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The CDA wagon was a type of hopper railway wagon used by British Rail, and then the privatised railway, to move china clay in South West England. The CDA was based on the same design as the HAA wagons which were used to transport coal, with the prototype CDA being a conversion of the HAA type. The wagons were used for 35 years being introduced ...
The original design in 1964 of MGR hopper wagons. No canopy or modifications to the wagon. 45 mph: 55 mph HBA: The wagon has a canopy in addition to the original design. 60 mph: 60 mph HCA: The wagon has a canopy in addition to the original design. 45 mph: 55 mph 60 mph in block formation: HDA: The final batch of 450 MGR coal hoppers, built in ...
Wagons retained the existing prefixes indicating their origin, and new stock built to British Railways designs was given a "B" prefix. British Railways adopted the following numbering system for carriages and wagons built to its own designs (a small number of types built to pre-Nationalisation designs were later allocated numbers in this series ...
The rolling stock of the Bodmin and Wenford Railway are the locomotives, carriages and wagons used on the Bodmin and Wenford Railway, a heritage railway in Cornwall, England. The Great Western Railway (GWR) opened a branch line from Bodmin Road to Bodmin General in 1887 and this was extended in 1888 to connect with the earlier Bodmin and ...
In this form the converted wagons had a rather odd appearance, as though someone had dropped the CJ-type wagon body into the hopper unit of the J wagons. Eventually the wagons had their roofs raised; CJ 6 and 14 were the trials for this, but it is not known by how much the capacity or weight of the wagons was increased.
This article outlines the history and types of passenger rolling stock and guards vans on the narrow-gauge lines of the Victorian Railways in Australia. The types were constructed in parallel with very similar designs. All passenger carriages operating under the Victorian Railways were painted a deep red, with black underframes and white lettering. In the early preservation era, vehicles ...
In April 1919 N QR wagons 31, 33, 36, 38, 39 and 46 were rebuilt into the first of the N BH passenger carriages, numbered 1 through 6 respectively and used for second-class passenger holiday traffic by adding seats, a removable roof on poles and tarps for wagon sides and doors. Over the years, a number of NQRs were provided with removable wood ...
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