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'GCR Wagons'
Tank Wagons
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| ESSO tank wagon 2335 | |
| Tank wagon A4513 | TMD Friction Braking Development tank |
| tank wagon no. ZRP KDB998926 |
ESSO tank wagon no.2335
ESSO tank wagon number 2335
This ESSO tank wagon number 2335 was at the Great Central Railway at Loughborough in April 2010. This tank wagon is in need of a new coat of paint with rust starting to show though.
Tank wagon 1642353
This tank wagon has a star shaped LMS plate on the right hand side which reads March 1943 with the number 164253. it was at the Great Central Railway at Loughborough station in April 2010.
Tank wagon at The Great Central Railway
This tank wagon only had a small number A4513 which was painted on in the black part in the middle of the tank. When it gets repainted or I find a number I shall add a another photo. it was at the Great Central Railway at Loughborough in April 2010.
Shell BP Petroleum Products tank wagon
Shell BP Petroleum Products tank wagon A4513 in black
A4513 is a Shell-BP 14T Class B tank wagon that was built by Hurst Nelson crica 1941
TMD Friction tank wagon
TMD Friction tank wagon at The Great Central Railway
This tank wagon has the names TMD Friction Braking Development and WS Atkins Rail on it. The small square box center right says "TMD Composition brakeblock Test Facility" It says on the left that that it was refurbished by E G Stede and Co Ltd. it was used for china clay be for.
This tank wagon was at the Great Central Railway at Loughborough in April 2010.
This is just one of the wagons that are at the Great Central Railway. There are lots of wagons in sidings that you can not take photos of that well. Many wagons do not yet have numbers added or have yet to be restored. I will add more photos when wagons are numbered.
Tank wagon number ZRP KDB998926
This tank wagon number ZRP KDB998926 was in the yard at the Great Central Railway at Quorn and Woodhouse in 2008. Work has started on this tank wagon as can be seen with the man on the top of the tank. I shall add an after photo when it gets a repaint. The amount of work needed out in the open in all weathers by a small band of members of the Great Central railway often goes un-noticed. Well done to them all.
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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