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'GCR Wagons'
PW Wagons
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| BR 20T Grampus wagon DB991408 | Dogfish Ballast wagon (one) |
| Dogfish Ballast wagon (two) | Dogfish Ballast wagon (Three) |
| Dogfish Ballast wagon (four) | Dogfish Ballast wagon (five) |
| Dogfish Ballast wagon HPA 9927144 |
BR 20T Grampus wagon DB991408
This wagon was at Quorn and Woodhouse station in 2014.
PW wagons Codes were often given the name of a fish.
Dogfish Ballast wagon's at the Great Central railway in 2011
Dogfish Ballast wagon at the Great Central railway in 2011
The number of this wagon is not very clear but I think it reads DB98--66? I will add another photo on this page when a new numbered is addded and it gets a coat of paint.
This is one of six photos of this train of ballast hoppers in Loughborough station during the 2011 Winter gala
Dogfish Ballast wagon (two) at the Great Central railway in 2011
The number of this wagon has been painted over and its number plate removed. I will add another photo on this page when a new numbered is addded.
This is one of six photos of this train of ballast hoppers in Loughborough station during the 2011 Winter gala.
Dogfish Ballast wagon at the Great Central railway in 2011
The number of this wagon has been covered in rust and its number plate is broken. This is one of six photos of this train of ballast hoppers in Loughborough station during the 2011 Winter gala.
Dogfish Ballast wagon (four) at the Great Central railway in 2011
The number of this wagon is not very clear but I think it reads DB98803? I will add another photo on this page when a new numbered is addded.
This is one of six photos of this train of ballast hoppers in Loughborough station during the 2011 Winter gala.
Dogfish Ballast wagon (five) at the Great Central railway in 2011
Dogfish Ballast wagon HPA 9927144 (6)
Dogfish Ballast wagon HPA 9927144 at the Great Central railway in 2011
The number of this wagon is HPA 9927144. The dogfish name has been pained over.
This is one of six photos of this train of ballast hoppers in Loughborough station during the 2011 Winter gala.
To run any railways wagons owned by the railway were used to move rails and ballast and every thing they needed from coal to fence post and signals to gate posts. These were often old wagons but as time as gone by hopperwagons for ballast and sleepers have been made just for that job.
These is just some of the wagons that are at the Great Central Railway. 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.
Wagons
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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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.