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'NVR Wagons'
Covered Vans page1
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| 12T Banana van B881987 | Palvan B778810 |
| B761651 venterated van | Venterated Van B786075 |
| Venterated van B759852 |
12T Banana van B 881987 at the Nene Valleys Peterborough station in 2009
This is page one of two on some of the covered vans at the Nene Valley Railway. Photos on this page are at the Peterborough NVR station
20 vanfits came to the Nene Valley Railway from the British Sugar Factory at Spalding in 1992 .
It is now a number of years since all or most of these Vanfits have run together . Lets hope they will some day all will run in one train again. This was BRs main covered van.
12T Palvan B 778810 at the Nene Valley Peterborough station during the 1960s weekend in 2005.
This 12T Palvan number B 778810 also at the Nene Valley Peterborough station in May 2014. The paint is coming away from the plywood body and the sun has also faded the colour
Palvan was short for pallet van. The doors were placed to the left on each side so as a fork truck could load the van. Often only one side could be loaded from a single sided platform. These covered vans then had the load all at one end and were then prone to derail at high speeds, and got a very bad name. Later vans had doors or curtains the full length of the van so loads could be loaded evenly from only one side.
B761615 in the bay platform at the Peterborough NVR station
12T B786075 in the bay platform at the Peterborough NVR station.
12T B759852 in the bay platform at the Peterborough NVR station.
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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