Covered Vans at the GCR

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Covered Vans page 2

Covered van no.Kdb 753722	Pal-van no number
Covered Van Quorn	Covered van grey
Venterated van 854782	Parcels van no. PMV S1706S

Covered van Kdb 753722

This Covered van number Kdb 753722 was at Swithland Siddings in 2013

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Palvan no number

Palvan at Quorn and Woodhouse station on the GCR

This Palvan was at Quorn and Woodhouse station on the Great Central Railway in 2008. This wagon has no number. The GCR has three Pal-vans if I work out which one this is, I shall add the number of this van.

Palvan was short for pallet van. The doors were placed to the left on each side so as a fork truck could load the van. Often only one side could be loaded from a single sided platform, they were then prone to derail at high speeds, and got a very bad name. Later vans had doors or curtains the full length of the van so loads could be loaded evenly from only one side.

Covered Van

This covered van in 2014 at Quorn and Woodhouse on the turntable.

Hopfully I can find out it's number and add more details with its number later.

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Venterated covered van

Venterated van at the Great Central Railway

This venterated van number has no number I can see is on it. It was at the Great Central Railway in 2008. I shall add the wagon numbers to this page, when I no which one it is.

Venterated van 854782

Venterated van 854782 at Quorn and Woodhouse on the Great Central Railway in 2017

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Parcels van number PMV S1706S

Parcels van number PMV S1706S

This Parcels van number PMV S1706S was at Quorn and Woodhouse on the Great Central Railway in 2008.

Goods that had to kept dry and kept clean and secure were put in these vans.

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This is just some 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. 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.

Page uploaded 25/11/2019

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