Mountsorrel Granite wagons at the GCR

Mountsorrel Granite 3-plank open 127

 

Mountsorrel Granite 3-plank open

This fine three plank private owner wagon is at the Great Central Railway This wagon was at at Quorn and Woodhouse station. It is painted in the colours of Mountsorrel Granite and with the number 127 and to carry a load of 10tons. Note the white paint round the wheels.

This wagon is not one of original Mountsorrel Granite Company wagons as none were saved.The three open wagons have been painted in  Mountsorrel Granite colours. 

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Mountsorrel Granite open wagon 539

Mountsorrel Granite open wagon 539

This wagon was also at Quorn and Woodhouse station 

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Mountsorrel Granite 5-plank open no.654 

 
 

Mountsorrel Granite 5-plank open no.654

This fine five plank private owner wagon is at the Great Central Railway This wagon was at at Quorn and Woodhouse station. It is painted in the colours of Mountsorrel Granite and with the number 654 and to carry a load of 12tons. note the white paint round the wheels.

 This wagon is not one of original Mountsorrel Granite Company wagons as none were saved. Two 5-plank which this is one and  3-plank open wagon Mountsorrel Granite 127 have been repainted in the colours of the company.

 

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These wagons above  are just some of the wagons that have been saved at the GCR.

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.