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'NVR Wagons'
wooden open
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| CWS Coal Department Manchester open no2379 | Peterborough Coal & Coke Co Ltd 143288 |
| 12T open SHOCK wagon B721890 | 12T open wagon S5869 |
| 3-plank open wagon |
CWS Coal Department Manchester wagon at Nene Valley Peterborough station.
This wagon is very well painted in the CWS Coal Department Manchester colours. They were a local wagon builder and repairer who had a building near to the M&GNJR railway bridge at Walton in Peterborough. This wagon was at the Nene Valley Railways Peterborough station.
Peterborough Coal & Coke Co Ltd wagon at Nene Valley Peterborough station.
This Peterborough Coal and Coke open wagon shows just just what private owner wagons were all about. This one is a local company. just a few 100 yards away from were the wagon is in the bay at Nene valleys Peterborough station.
12T open SHOCK wagon number B721890
12T open SHOCK wagon number B721890 with a tarpaulin rail to cover cargos to keep them getting wet
This 12T open SHOCK wagon number B721890 was at the Nene Valley's Peterborough station in the bay
These Shock wagons had large springs (see spring under the centre door) to help with the shocks when hard shunting was undertaken, when breakable or fragile cargos were being caried. The wooden wagon body is a little shorter than the under frame .The three white stripes on the sides and ends were also on the Shock vans as well.
12T open SHOCK wagon number B721890 with a BR tarpaulin over the wagon.
Note the ropes using the 4 hooks placed for that job along the wagon.
Class 5 City of Peterborough had been given a new number and its nameplates removed just for the September 2014 steam gala. The locomotive was shunting the wagons back into the bay at the Nene Valleys Peterborough station at the end of the day.
12T open wagon S5869 in the bay platform at the Nene Valleys Peterborough station in 2009
3 plank open wagon at Wansford
This 3 plank wagon had no number in the loco yard at the Nene Valleys Wansford station in 2006. I think it was being re-painted and was still in its undercoat.
3 plank open wagon with no number in at Orton Mere on the NVR in 2012
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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