Unusual lettering on BR Toad Brake Vans

[Killybegs]

A current offering from Hornby has a panel with lettering stating which two trains the brake van may be used on, see attached pic. I don't remember coming across this before. Can anyone shed any light on how often this was done.

 

[melmoth]

I don't know, but there is a picture in Barrie Walker's "Northern Steam Finale" (isbn 0710603754, Jane's, 1986) which, incidentally, shows a standard BR 20T Brake Van, B953630, as the first van behind the locos on a railtour over the Cromford & High Peak in 1967 and which bears the instructions: "RU Avonmouth  10.30am Avonmouth to Tavistock Jnc  7.30pm Tavistock Jnc to Avonmouth".

 

So, from this rather limited sample of one:

 

a. It wasn't restricted to ex-GWR designs on the WR

b. They still managed to wander

[cctransuk]

A current offering from Hornby has a panel with lettering stating which two trains the brake van may be used on, see attached pic. I don't remember coming across this before. Can anyone shed any light on how often this was done.

 

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Not at all unusual - there are plenty of photos around which illustrate the allocated workings of ex-GWR TOAD brakevans.

 

Some of the wording was extremely complex; indicating the full operating diagram, including light engine / brakevan movements.

 

Regards,

John Isherwood.

[jim.snowdon]

The Great Western had a habit of diagraming its goods brake vans and, in some instances, painting the workings on the vans concerned. Some of the passenger brakes were similarly adorned.

 

Jim

[FelixM]

BR 20Ton Brake Van by Tony Lambert, auf Flickr