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'GCR Wagons'
Covered Vans page 1
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| 16T covered van S48564 | Covered van W 18422 |
| Ale van B768184 | |
| Covered van B763305 | INSUL-FISH E87674 |
12T twin vented covered van S48564 at Swithland Sidings on the Great Central Railway
Goods that had to kept dry and kept clean and secure were put in these vans.
Covered van W 18422 at Quorn and Woodhouse station on the 3rd of October in 2014.
This covered van looked very smart, with a flesh coat of paint and numbers
This 12T covered van number B768184 has the name Ale and is at the Great Central Railway in 2008.
It was used to carry beer which needed to be locked up.
Shockvan B85838 at the Great Central Railway
This Shockvan was at Quorn and Woodhouse station in 2010.
These Shock vans had large springs on each side (there is a spring under the centre doors with the later cover over it) The idea was to help with the shocks, when, hard shunting was undertaken, when breakable or fragile cargo's was being carried. The wooden wagon body is a little shorter than the under frame .The three white stripes on the side, as well as the ends were also on the open Shock wagons so you could tell it was a shock wagon.
12T covered van number B763305
This 12T covered van number B763305 is at the Great Central Railway in 2017 at Swithland siddings.
INSUL-FISH E87674 is at the Great Central Railway in 2008.
Those of these vans fitted with roller bearing were given a large blue circle and became known as Blue Spot fish vans.
These vans were run in block trains at express speeds to London down the ECML. You could tell it was a fish train, as it went by.
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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