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For instance, there were the BR (adapted from the LNER system) and LMS carriage codes, which indicated interior layout or usage. The Great Western Railway (GWR) identified some of their non-passenger carriages and wagons through a series of animal designations, including sea life for departmental (non-revenue earning) stock, followed by a ...
National Railway Museum, York; Locomotion, Shildon; Science Museum, Kensington, London; Science and Industry Museum, Manchester; Other items are on short or long-term loans to museums and heritage railways such as the Museum of the Great Western Railway at Swindon and the Head of Steam museum at Darlington.
Isle of Man Railway: Four-Wheel Well Wagon Replaced (Parts To W.W. No.2) Dismantled, Scrapped 1998 W.W.2 1998 Isle of Man Railway: Four-Wheel Well Wagon Extant Port Erin Station: In Service W.W.3 2012 Isle of Man Railway: Bogie Well Wagon Extant "Peel East" Siding: In Service
Prestwin wagons were designed by British Railways and built by Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company to carry some types of powder traffic that were unsuited to the Presflo design. There were two designs; diagram 1/274 had a 10 feet 6 inches (3.20 m) wheelbase while the final 100 wagons were built to diagram 1/277 and had a longer 12 ...
A turntable for the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Turnplates at the Park Lane goods station of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1831. Early wagonways were industrial railways for transporting goods—initially bulky and heavy items, particularly mined stone, ores and coal—from one point to another, most often to a dockside to be loaded onto ships. [4]
Built to a Southern Railway design [106] 49017 MoD: Brake van 1942 Built to a Southern Railway design. [107] 56331 GWR Open 1918 Built as a Diagram AA13 'Toad' brake van, this wagon was converted as an engineer's mess van but is now used as an open wagon. [103] 59378 SECR: Open c.1926 59378 is the number given by the Port of Bristol Authority ...
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. This first design was removed from traffic by the outbreak of World War I. [2]
A variety of slate wagons preserved at the National Slate Museum, Llanberis. This is the basic vehicle for transporting roofing slates from the quarry to the destination. . Because roofing slates are relatively friable, they are packed vertically into the open slate wagons to reduce the chance they will be broken on their jo