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Vacuum-braked 21 ton coal wagon being loaded from a hopper at Blaenant Colliery, bound for Aberthaw Power Station, c.October 1965. The basic wagon had numerous variants. On creation of British Railways (BR) in 1948 - which took control of all railway assets, including all private owner wagons - the new organisation inherited 55,000 original MoT wagons, they were all given a "B" prefix in their ...
Former 'Private Owner' wagons, owned by industrial concerns rather than the railway companies, had a prefix letter "P" but were renumbered into a new series commencing at 3000. Some carriages and wagons built by British Railways to the designs of the 'Big Four' companies were numbered in their series and carried the appropriate letter prefix.
Some of the last MMB designs used a blue tank colour with white lettering. Hence, many of the former private owner wagons designs survived well into British Railways ownership, in a now faded and flaking state. MMB were not so fastidious on cleanliness standards, and so often in photographs either the cleaned silver paint has faded to white, or ...
Two-plank, drop-sided wagons, broadly similar to the "H" class, were intended as ballast wagons. However, their ease of loading and unloading made them useful for many types of goods traffic, eventually totaling 78 of these wagons on the line. Three were leased as private owner wagons to the Mona Chemical Company in Peel. Other private owner ...
North Eastern Railway-designed full brake / ballast brake vehicle. Private owner. British Railways: DB 993717 Shark: A 20t Ballast Plough built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company in 1952. [104] Private owner. B 954550 Standard: 20t 4w Brake Van built at Faverdale Wagon Works in 1959 for British Railways. [105] Private owner.
A 6-road facility north of the TVR mainline, the carriage and wagon works were capable of both producing and maintaining the complete TVR and private owner range of rolling stock. The works was assured of work, as the TVR handled some 10,000 coal wagons and a further 3,000 pieces of passenger and other freight stock. [1]
Jupiter Wagons Limited is an Indian private manufacturer of railway freight wagons, passenger coaches, wagon components, cast manganese steel crossings and castings headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal. The company manufactures coaches for the Indian Railways and many other private companies. [6]
Built 1962. Donated to North Norfolk by Courier Rail, from Norwich Crown Point, 2003. Sold to private owner and moved to Mid-Norfolk Railway in 2017 [101] 4615 Mk1 TSO Built 1957. Scrapped in 2006. [102] 43034 Mk1 CL Built 1955. Preserved 1975. Used on NNR services, but sold in 2010, moving to the Epping Ongar Railway. Now at Llangollen Railway ...