'Didcot Wagons'
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Mink G 20Ton van 112843 | GWR TEVAN 79933. |
12 tons Mink A van 101720 | Fruit C covered van no.2862 |
10 tons Iron Mink 11152 | Fish Bloate covered van 2671 |
Covered van WGB 4166 | Covered Van 101836 |
GWR Mink G van 112843
This Great Western Railway Mink G 20Ton covered van is number 112843. This van which was built in 1931 to Diagram V.22, Lot 1067. It is in very a good state of repair. It has Return to Fishguard on it.
This Mink G is one of around 50 railway wagons most of which were built by the great Western Railway or the British Railways Western Region that have been saved at the Didcot Railway Centre that is next to the Didcot mainline railway station.
This covered van is a Great Western Railway 6 tons TEVAN number 79933. This was built in 1922 to Diagram X7 to lot 890 as a Mica B meat van. It was then in 1938 converted to this Tevan Special Traffics Van under Diagram V.31.
G W R 12 tons Mink A covered van 101720
This is a Great Western Railway 12 tons Mink A covered van with the number 101720. It was built in 1924 . It was for Flour traffic only and to be returned empty to Wantage road station.This Mink A was at the Didcot Railway Centre.
G W R Fruit C covered van 2862
G W R Fruit C covered van no.2862
This covered van is a Great Western Railway Fruit C with the number 2862. It was built in 1938 to Diagram Y.9,Lot 1634c This Fruit C was at the Didcot Railway Centre. Didcot had painted this wagon, but had not yet repainted the numbers in 2008.
G W R 10 tons Iron Mink covered van 11152
This wagon has been painted blue and with the wording Salvage Save for Victory on it with the number 47305. I think it is now back in these black colours.
Fish Bloate covered van no. 2671
Great Western Railway Fish Bloate covered van no. 2671
This van has I think been been repainted since this photo was taken in 2008
Covered van at Didcot with the number WGB 4166
This is one of two vans that came from the MoD at Bicester to used as as a storage by the locomotive department.
Covered Van at the Didcot Railway Centre number 101836
Covered Vans page1 | Tank wagons page 2 |
Mink G 20Ton van 112843. | Tar tank wagon No.1 |
GWR TEVAN 79933. | Royal Daylight oil tank wagon no.745 |
12 tons Mink A van 101720 | Express Dairy tank wagon SR4409 |
Fruit C covered van no.2862 | 6 wheel Drinking Water Tank Wagon |
10 tons Iron Mink covered van 11152 | BRAKE VANS page 3 |
Fish Bloate covered van no. 2671 | 20T Toad brake van 68684 |
Covered van WGB 4166 | 20T Toad brake van 950592 |
Covered Van 101836 | |
Breakdown Train Vehicle no1 | |
Breakdown Train Vehicle no 56 | |
Didcot Center Pages |
Open wagons page 4 |
Didcot Railway Center Steam | 12T China clay open wagon 92943 |
Didcot Railway Centre- Steam 1975 +Diesels 2008 | GWR Loco Coal wagon 63066 |
Macaw.B no.70335 | |
Chaired sleeper wagon 100682 | |
PNA 21.5T GWS55267 |
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.
This website is Ukrailways1970tilltoday.me.uk it is on railways but it is not just on trains but all things railways, with photos, which I have taken from the 1970s till now. I take photos of all things railways, steam diesel and electric trains, signal boxes, wagons any thing that is on the National Rail network, which was BR when I started taken photos.