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Covered vans followed, initially for carrying cattle but later for any kind of goods that needed to be protected from the weather during transit. The first bogie wagons appeared in 1873 for heavy loads, but bogie coal wagons were built in 1904 following on from the large four-wheeled coal wagons that had first appeared in 1898.
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.
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 – gunpowder van; Conflat – flat wagon for containers; Coral – glass wagon
GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0: Swindon Works: GWR Unlined Green, GWR lettering Built in 1918. [6]: 61 Last worked in January 2023. [28] 5164 GWR 5101 Class 2-6-2 T: Swindon Works: GWR Green with Great Western lettering. Built in 1930. [6]: 61 From 2014 following withdrawal from service the engine was stored on static display at Barrow Hill Roundhouse. [12]
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 ...
Chaldron wagon c.1865-70 Shildon [206] 1975–7055 NER: 512 Four-wheel oil tank wagon Darlington Wagon & Engineering Co. 1889 Shildon [207] 1975–7045 MSLR: 6671 4-plank Goods wagon Dukinfield, MSLR 1890 Manchester [208] Y1998.24 NER: 12 Snow Plough NER Dia No. U31 1891 Shildon [209] 1978–7123 LSWR: 99 Four-wheel goods brake van Eastleigh ...
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway#1997 — photo and short history of a horse/express car built by the Pullman Company in 1930; it was subsequently converted into a roadway machine parts car. Capsule History: Rutland Stock Cars — how the stock car was developed, improved and used by one railroad in New England.