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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 ...
3-plank open wagon Derby, LMS Dia No. D1927, Lot No. 922 1936 York [229] 1982–7003 LMS: 499254 Tube Wagon Horbury, Chas Roberts Dia No. D1675, Lot No. 938 1936 York [230] 1978–7116 BR ex WD: W 161042 "Warflat" 50-ton Bogie Flat Wagon Birmingham, Metro-Cammell: Dia No. BR 73 1940 Shildon [231] 1988-7015 LNER: 246710 Goods brake van ...
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
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).
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
Corris Railway Mail Wagon, 2 ft 3 in (686 mm), used for carrying mail by gravity down the line every week-day afternoon, lamp bracket fitted at down end. Four-wheel, end door, 1-ton wagon ex-GWR 31992, TR 10, Turner axleboxes, bought by TR in 1951 and donated to museum in 1994. Corris Railway. Incline balancing wagon used on incline at Aberlefenni.
A British Railways' Lowmac preserved on the Bodmin and Wenford Railway. Lowmac is a United Kingdom railway term for a design of low-floored ('well') wagon. A Lowmac's purpose is for carrying vehicles or equipment that would normally be over the recommended height of a normal flatbed wagon, and hence exceed the loading gauge.
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]