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'GCR Wagons'
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| 16T Mineral wagon B550356 | 16T Mineral Wagon B562230 |
| 16TMineral Wagon B573124. | 16T mineral wagon B589204 |
16T fitted Mineral wagon B550356
This 16T fitted Mineral wagon B550356 was at the Great Central Railway at Quorn and Woodhouse in March 2010. Its is in Bauxite (red) but were does the rust stop and the paint start? I shall add an after photo when it gets a repaint.
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 mineral wagon is not one of the Windcutter Group's mineral wagons. But this is what many of these wagons looked like after a few years service.
16T Mineral wagon B562230 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 mineral wagons. This one is at Swithland Siddings on the GCR.
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 no.B 573124
This 16T fitted Mineral wagon B573124 was at the Great Central Railway in March 2010.
This 16T mineral wagon number B589204 was at the Great Central Railway in 2013 at Swithland Siddings.
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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