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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 

12T van B 774874 at the Nene Valleys Wansford station in 2007.
 

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.

 
Venterated Van Wansford with no number
 
Venterated Van with no number
 
Venterated Van with no number in the siding just south of Wansford
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Venterated Van Wansford B785122
 
Venterated Van B785122
 
Plywood Venterated Van B785122 in the siding just south of Wansford next to the van above.
 
VANFIT B77765
 
 VANFIT B77765 in the bay at Wansford
 
VANFIT B77765 in the bay at Wansford
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VANFIT Wansford No Number
 
VANFIT in the bay at Wansford
 
VANFIT in the bay at Wansford with no number
 
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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Nene Valley Railway wagons

Open wagons wood
Open wagons steel
Covered Vans
PW wagons
CWS Coal Department Manchester
21T hopper wagon B427960 
12T Banana van B881987
17T Mackeral DB992358
Peterborough Coal & Coke Co Ltd
21T hopper wagon B430226 
Palvan B778810
Shark E DB 993836
12T open SHOCK wagon B721890
Mainline ZBA DB977584
B761651 venterated van
Lowmac 1
12T open wagon S5869
Mainline ZBA DB972206
Venterated Van B786075
Lowmac 2
3-plank open wagon
Mainline ZBA DB984194
Venterated van B759852 
WELTROL MX
 
16T Mineral wagon B595229
12T venterated van B774874
 
 
MOD no.4730 steel open wagon
Venterated Van Wansford no number 
Brake Vans 
 
B494730 as above repainted
Venterated Van B785122 
20T  Brake Van B954024
Tank Wagons
 
Vanfit B77765
Brake Van B953944
14T ESSO  tank wagon
 NVR pages on this site
Van in bay Wansford no number
Brake Van S55550
 
 
20T Brake van 9300/4
 
 
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Page uploaded 25/11/2019

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