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  2. Category:British railway wagons - Wikipedia

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  3. British Rail Departmental Wagons - Wikipedia

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    British Rail departmental wagons are wagons used by British Rail and their successors Railtrack and Network Rail for departmental purposes. Many vehicles are named after aquatic creatures (including fish , mammals , birds and mythical creatures ), these names started life as telegraphic codes.

  4. Mineral wagon - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. History of rail transport in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    British Railway History. An outline from the accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways, 1830–1876 (vol 1. G. Allen and Unwin, 1954) Ellis, Cuthbert Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalization of Railways, 1877–1947. Vol. 2 (G. Allen and Unwin, 1959); see online review.

  6. CDA wagon - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. List of rolling stock items in the UK National Collection

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    Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company: Dia No. 1/272, Lot No. 3361 1961 Shildon [243] 1986–7004 BR: B 882583 Banana Van Wolverton, BR Dia No. 1/246, Lot No. 3290 1960 York [244] 1978–7114 BR: 350000 "Merry-go-Round" hopper coal wagon Darlington, BR Prototype HAA 1964 Shildon [245] 1995–7852 Philips Petroleum: 85209 Bogie Petrol ...

  8. British carriage and wagon numbering and classification

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    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.

  9. British railway milk tank wagon - Wikipedia

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    The initial milk tank wagon designs were based on a 12-foot (3.7 m) two axle railway wagon chassis. There was a ladder either side to allow filling via an industrial rubber hose into a flip-top dome casing, while a steel pipe exited at the bottom of the tank with a tap either end of the chassis between the buffer beams for extraction.