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Most of these were small iron open wagons varying from 8 to 20 tons capacity, but some had specialised discharge systems – P6, P7 and P22 were hoppers, and a number of side-tipping wagons were also bought in 1930 but never allocated a diagram number. [26] Rail wagons ('Ganes') were mixed in with revenue earning bogie bolsters in the J ...
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.
A railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), [a] railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport network (a railroad/railway).
An axlebox, also known as a journal box in North America, is the mechanical subassembly on each end of the axles under a railway wagon, coach or locomotive; it contains bearings and thus transfers the wagon, coach or locomotive weight to the wheels and rails; the bearing design is typically oil-bathed plain bearings on older rolling stock, or roller bearings on newer rolling stock.
For most railways, specific types were identified by their Diagram Number. This could simply be arranged by consecutive number, or there could be some greater organisation of numbers so that similar types were grouped together. However, carriages and wagons have rarely been referred to in general terms by their Diagram Number.
The prototype Presflo wagon was built to BR Diagram 1/273 but all production wagons were built to diagram 1/272. A total of 1840 Presflo wagons were constructed to diagram 1/272 with the following numbers: [4] [a] B888000 built by BR Shildon in 1954; B888001-B888110 built by BR Shildon in 1955; B888111-B888180 built by BR Shildon in 1956
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 ...
Railway Number Type Builder Diagram and lot no. Built Location Object Number Image Peak Forest Tramway: 174 Four-wheel quarry truck 1815 York [200] 1975–7053 Four-wheel Chaldron wagon 1826 Shildon [201] 1975–7054 Thomas James, Stratford and Moreton Tramway: Horse-drawn wagon c.1840-45 York [202] 1995-7001 Dandy cart c.1845 design York [203 ...