13T Medfit open wagon B461074  

13T  Medfit steel open wagon B461074

This 13T  Medfit steel open wagon B461074 was at the Great Central Railway wagon was at Quorn and Woodhouse station. It numbers are not clear, hope I have the right wagon. 

13T  Medfit steel open wagon

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LNER 13 ton high sided steel open wagon E281882 

LNER 13 ton high sided steel open wagon E281882 at Quorn and Woodhouse station on the Great Central Railway

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21 ton steel hopper wagon B425356

House Coal Concentraion 21ton steel hopper wagon B425356

This hopper wagon was in a train at Rothley.    Iorn ore tipper    

 

 Iorn ore tipper at Quorn and Woodhouse station in January 2012

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Open shock wagon with no number 

    Open shock wagon with no number in a train at Rothley on the Great Central railway.   Most resored wagons now have had there numbers added.

Rudd TLF-W wagon  

RUDD TLF-W wagon  

This RUDD TLF-W wagon was at the Great Central Railway at its Quorn and Woodhouse station in March 2010.

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ZDV wagon   

ZDV Wagon  at Quorn and Woodhouse station

This wagon has no number the only thing I can make out is ZDV and the condemed letters COND and lots of rust. The wagons is at at Quorn and Woodhouse in 2008. I will add an after photo, when it gets its full make over. There my be a long wait.

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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.