Grounded Vans

[petethemole]

15 hours ago, big jim said:

don’t know where it’s come from but looking at the paintwork on it and the container in front and airport truck is say they are from the same place 

There are 'pieces' all over, including static items.  Either the yard is regularly visited by 'artists' (so not very secure) or they perrmit then to practise their work.  I hope the tender doesn't get cut up.

[Adam88]

Here's a 1916 Eastleigh-built box van still in use at a private location in former LSWR territory.  The cupboard doors are not original having been replaced by steel in recent years.

 

Edited April 22, 2022 by Adam88
Picture replaced

[Ian Smeeton]

I don't think that this one has appeared before, showing that even the railway used grouded van bodies.

 

 

Regards

 

Ian

R

[brianthesnail96]

Here's a few recently uncovered near me- all BR standard types but a mixture of planked and plywood and 2 and 3 piece ends. There's 6 or 7 in total all end to end carrying on past the scaffolding frame. Presumably came off of the Dursley branch line. There's at least one more in the same yard that's in excellent condition and freshly creosoted that I presume is still in use for storage- these ones are empty.

[RJS1977]

23 hours ago, Ian Smeeton said:

I don't think that this one has appeared before, showing that even the railway used grouded van bodies.

 

 

There used to be a pair of grounded iron minks to the east of Reading station but they both disappeared during the electrification works.

[rodent279]

Don't think these have been posted here yet. 2 van bodies in a field at Webb's Heath, near Warmley, Bristol. According to RHRP, they are Shocvans.

 

http://www.ws.rhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=15295

http://www.ws.rhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=15296

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 30, 2021 by rodent279

[eastwestdivide]

Anyone ID this one seen beside the Nottingham Canal near Bennerley viaduct yesterday!

[cctransuk]

3 minutes ago, eastwestdivide said:

Anyone ID this one seen beside the Nottingham Canal near Bennerley viaduct yesterday!

 

LNER diagram ?  .

 

CJI.

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

Are we only doing real ones?

 

Mike.

[Pillar]

Came across this one last year near Penshaw, Sunderland. My research suggests it was a BR built van to a GWR design, either diagram 1/203 (fitted 12t vent), 1/205 (unfitted 12t vent, but some later fitted) or 1/207 (12t shock).

 

I went back to it with a tape measure today and the length of the body is 17ft 6in, which would seem to rule out a shock van as the bodies on these were shorter than this.

 

Not sure whether it's possible to distinguish between diagrams 1/203 and 1/205 just from the body, but the bauxite paint suggests it was vacuum fitted at some point. There are also clear traces of grey paint below the bauxite in places. Could this suggest it was originally unfitted (diagram 1/205), or could it just be a layer of primer beneath the bauxite topcoat? Any ideas?

 

Liam

 

 

Edited January 30, 2022 by Pillar

[Wickham Green too]

Could it not actually be a G.W.R. vehicle ? - the shade of grey ( one of fifty, I understand ) might give a clue.

[Pillar]

Did the GWR make this type of van in plywood? The only pictures I've seen of them are planked but it's a bit out of my era so could be wrong.

 

Edit - Indeed I was wrong as Paul Bartlett's site includes a few plywood ones by GWR.

 

Regarding the grey paint, I believe GWR grey is quite dark? The shade on this wagon is a very light grey and definitely more like BR unfitted grey to my eye.

Edited February 1, 2022 by Pillar

[mike morley]

On 01/02/2022 at 17:15, Pillar said:

Regarding the grey paint, I believe GWR grey is quite dark? The shade on this wagon is a very light grey and definitely more like BR unfitted grey to my eye.

 

GWR grey might have begun life very dark, but as it aged it got lighter and lighter and ended up very pale.

[BernardTPM]

Just to complicate matters, some vans to this design were completed after Nationalisation so may never have had GW livery.

[Fat Controller]

14 minutes ago, BernardTPM said:

Just to complicate matters, some vans to this design were completed after Nationalisation so may never have had GW livery.

Indeed, they carried numbers with 'B' prefixes; Lot 2079, built 1949, for example.

[Wickham Green too]

..... which takes us back to the Dia.1/203 possibility !

[Ruston]

On 29/01/2022 at 19:26, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

Are we only doing real ones?

 

Mike.

Model ones here -

 

[Rivercider]

We are replanting our small garden, and looking to purchase some trees recently we visited the Chew Valley Trees nursery for the first time. It seems that since lockdown they have opened a brand new building, but on the other side of the site was an old wooden building, and beside that a van body used for storage.

There were no obvious signs of identification on the van body.

 

 

Chew Valley Trees, Chew Magna, Somerset.  27/1/2022

 

The service, and the quality of the trees is very good.

 

cheers

 

 

 

Edited February 8, 2022 by Rivercider

[PhilJ W]

Looks like a BR plywood sided van.

[darrel]

Near coulport on the Rosneath peninsula which has never had a railway. Nearest railway is the west highland line at Garelochhead 

[Wickham Green too]

You don't often see grounded 'bodies' retaining buffers !

[stewartingram]

Dig deep enough around it - you may find the wheels......

[Wickham Green too]

....... but there won't be any railway under them !

[stewartingram]

Never say never!

[Wickham Green too]

Indeed ......... but the chances of someone having built a branchline from Garellochead without anyone noticing are pretty slim - unless Rule 1 applies at 304.8mm scale in that part of the world, of course !!?!