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Rated at 20 long tons (22.4 short tons; 20.3 t), these had been twice the size of typical wagons of the period, but it was not until 1923 that the company invested heavily in coal wagons of this size and the infrastructure necessary for unloading them at the railway-owned docks; these were known as "Felix Pole" wagons after the GWR's General ...
Most of these codes were painted onto the wagons for easy identification. Cone. Aero – airscrew wagon (from 1941) [3] Ale – cattle wagon converted for beer barrels (from 1940) [3] Asmo – covered motor car truck; Beaver – flat truck; Beetle – prize cattle wagon. Bloater – large fish van; Bocar – covered truck for car bodies; Cone ...
The first Siphons - named after the GWR's Telegraphic code for a milk wagon - appeared from Swindon Works in the 1870s, later given diagram O.1. 75 wagons were built to this diagram under lot numbers 180 and 217, able to carry 17 gallon milk churns stacked two high.
There is a variety of preserved steam and diesel locomotives, diesel multiple units, passenger coaches, and goods wagons. Most of these are typical of Great Western Railway (GWR) or London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) branch lines. Some are owned by the railway itself but most are owned by various individuals or voluntary groups.
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838 with the initial route completed between London and Bristol in 1841.
A Class A tank wagon for aviation spirit (fuel oil), registered by Shell-Mex BP with the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. [33] 34620 BR: Bogie flat 1955 British Rail Mark 1 coach underframe now used as a flat-bed wagon. [34] 35302 GWR: Brake van: 1946 Telegraphic code: Toad. [35] 41799 GWR: Shunters truck: 1902 Telegraphic code: Chariot ...
A cattle wagon or a livestock wagon is a type of railway vehicle designed to carry livestock.Within the classification system of the International Union of Railways they fall under Class H - special covered wagons - which, in turn are part of the group of covered goods wagons, although cattle have historically also been transported in open goods wagons.
The passenger coaches of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were many and varied, ranging from four and six-wheeled vehicles for the original broad gauge line of 1838, through to bogie coaches up to 70 feet (21 m) long which were in service through to 1947. Vacuum brakes, bogies and through-corridors all came into use during the nineteenth century ...