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Tar tank wagon No.1

 
This Tar tank wagon has the number 1 on it

This Tar tank wagon has the number 1 on it. This wagon which was built in 1898 by Charles Roberts. the wagon came from Slough Estates. This tank wagon is painted in the colours of Smith and Forrest of Manchester, but this tank wagon may have only been painted plain black at Slough Estates.

 
This tank wagon 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.
 

Royal Daylight oil tank wagon no.745

Royal Daylight oil tank wagon

Royal Daylight oil tank wagon no.745 

This Royal Daylight oil tank wagon has the number 745. It was built in 1912 by Hust Nelson and Co.

It has on the lefthand side Write for Prices to the Anglo American Oil Co.

To-day it would tell you to look on its website , how things have changed

 Express Dairy Milk Tank wagon

Express Dairy Milk Tank wagon

Express Dairy Milk Tank wagon

This Express Dairy tank wagon was for Milk for London. It has a wagon number of SR 4409. This wagon was built in 1931 as a four wheel wagon to Diagram 3152, Order 673. It was later rebuil in 1937 as a six wheel wagon.

6 wheel Drinking Water Tank Wagon number 101   

6 wheel Drinking Water Tank Wagon number101

6 wheel Drinking Water Tank Wagon number 101  

 
Wagons At the Didcot Railway Centre  
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

Frome Mineral Junction Signal Box at Didcot

 
 
Macaw.B no.70335  
 
Chaired sleeper wagon 100682
 
PNA 21.5T GWS55267
 
 
 
 
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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