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16T Mineral wagon  B593185 .
16T Mineral wagon  B573403
16T Mineral Wagon B279704 .
16T Mineral Wagon B279705.
16T Mineral Wagon B279710.
16T Mineral Wagon B279711.
 
16T Mineral wagon  B593185

 16T Mineral wagon  B593185 at the Great Central Railway

16T Mineral wagon  B593185 at the Great Central Railway at Swithland Siddings in 2013

This is just one of the 40 mineral wagons that are part of the windcutter group at the Great Central Railway.

The BR 16 Ton steel mineral wagon has a 9ft wheelbase.  Between the years 1950 and 1958 about 220,000 of these mineral wagons were built in the BR works and by private builders.

16T  Mineral wagon B573403  

16T Mineral wagon B573403 at the Great Central Railway

16T Mineral wagon  B573403 at the Great Central Railway

This is just one of the 40 mineral wagons that are part of the windcutter group at the Great Central Railway.
 
The BR 16 Ton steel mineral wagon has a 9ft wheelbase.  Between the years 1950 and 1958 about 220,000 of these mineral wagons were built in the BR works and by private builders.
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16T Mineral wagon  B279704  

16T mineral wagon at Quorn and Woodhouse B279704

16T Mineral wagon  B279704 at the Great Central Railway

The BR 16 Ton steel mineral wagonhas a a 9ft wheelbase.  Between the years 1950 and 1958 about 220,000 of these mineral wagons were built in the BR works and by private builders.

The wagon on this page is just one of the 40 mineral wagons that are part of the windcutter group at the Great Central Railway mineral wagons. This one is at Quorn and Woodhouse station on the GCR.

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16T Mineral wagon B279710


16T Mineral wagon B279710 at the Great Central Railway

16T Mineral wagon  B279710 at the Great Central Railway

The BR 16 Ton steel mineral wagon has a 9ft wheelbase.  Between the years 1950 and 1958 about 220,000 of these mineral wagons were built in the BR works and by private builders.

This is just one of the 40 mineral wagons that are part of the windcutter group at the Great Central Railway mineral wagons. This one is at Quorn and Woodhouse station on the GCR.

16T mineral wagon number B279705 
 
 16T mineral wagon number B279705

This 16T mineral wagon number B279705 was at the Great Central Railway in 2008 

This wagon is one of the 40 mineral wagons that are part of the windcutter groups wagons at the Great Central Railway.

The BR 16 Ton steel mineral wagon has a 9ft wheelbase.  Between the years 1950 and 1958 about 220,000 of these mineral wagons were built in the BR works and by private builders.

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16T mineral wagon number B279711 

16T mineral wagon number B279711

This 16T mineral wagon is number B279711 and was at Lougborough on the Great Central Railway in 2008

16T mineral wagon number B279711
 
16T mineral wagon number B279711 at Quorn and Woodhouse at the Great Central Railway in 2013
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This is just one of the 40 mineral wagons that are part of the windcutter group at the Great Central Railway.

The BR 16 Ton steel mineral wagon has a 9ft wheelbase.  Between the years 1950 and 1958 about 220,000 of these mineral wagons were built in the BR works and by private builders.
This Page is about some of the wagons that have been saved. It is not just locomotives that needed saving. Today with no short wheelbase unfitted wagons left on the main lines, someone needed to have saved some.

The very slow pick up freight, stopping at small way side stations are long gone. Todays airbraked trains of long wheel base wagons can now do 60mph. These freights are now in block trains.

The local pick freight would pick up one wagon from a small wayside station. This  train took the wagon to a larger freight yard. The wagons were then shunted onto to another freight train to another yard, were it would then be shunted into another pick freight. This traffic was slow. These trains used wagons that had change little over the years. It often took days to get from A to B.

Coal oil and fish and livestock plus parcels newspapers and mail were all moved by rail plus ever sort of cargo that day goes by road. Moving cargos like coal and iorn ore was why the railways were opened. The roads were often only muddy tracks when the railway first opened. Trains to carry people came later. Saving wagons is just as important as locomotives.

 
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