Covered Vans page 2
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12T venterated van B774874 | Venterated Van no number |
Venterated Van B785122 | Vanfit B77765 |
Venterated Van no number |
12T Vanfit B 774874 at the Nene Valleys Wansford station in 2007.
This is page one of two on some of the covered vans at the Nene Valley Railway. Photos on this page are at the Wansford 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 most can run in one long train again. This was BRs main covered van.
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.