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Goods all-iron wagons 1862; Covered goods wagon (Assam Bengal Railway), 1902 [1] Four wheel cattle wagon (Ceylon Government Railway), 1912 [2] L-types cement wagons 1950s; Pressure Discharge Bulk Powder Wagon ("Presflo") 1955–1963 "Twin-Tub" Prestwin Silo wagons 1960–1962; Cemflo Cement tanker wagon
In common with most other British railways, goods trains were coupled together by a large three-link chain between sprung hooks on each wagon. Some vacuum-braked wagons were fitted with screw couplings which could be tightened so that wagons did not bounce back and forwards on their buffers, in which the middle link of the coupling was a ...
Shock absorbing wagon Ashford (BR SR) Dia No. 1392, Lot No. 3443 1948 Bluebell Railway [292] 1982–7007 [Note 107] BR: B 383560 Iron Ore Tippler Shildon, BR Dia No. 1/181, Lot No. 2601 1953 Rutland Railway Museum [293] [294] 1978–7113 [Note 107] BR: B 436275 Iron Ore Hopper Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company: Dia No. 1/162, Lot No ...
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 ...
Pages in category "British railway wagons" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. AeroLiner3000; B.
Hbillns wagon with sliding sides in ITL’s green livery Commonwealth Oil Corporation goods wagon in Australia. Goods wagons or freight wagons [1] (North America: freight cars), [2] also known as goods carriages, goods trucks, freight carriages or freight trucks, are unpowered railway vehicles that are used for the transportation of cargo.
Although built to a Great Western Railway design, the 1600 Class were built by the Western Region of British Railways. 1638 was withdrawn in Wales during August 1966 and arrived at Buckfastleigh in November 1967. [131] It moved to the Kent and East Sussex Railway in 1992. [132] 3803 GWR 2884: 2-8-0: 1939 1983 - 2022 A heavy freight locomotive.
46002 hauling Presflo wagons south of Loughborough, Nigel Tout, 9 July 1975. Presflo and Prestwin were the designation for two types of goods wagon designed by British Railways in the 1950s for the carriage of powdered goods.