Ruston Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Yesterday. BR 12 tonner, near the junction of the A68/B6296 near Tow Law, County Durham Another near the junction of the B6296/B6297 LMS? van at the side of the B6275, south of Piercebridge 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 In the hills above Sowerby Bridge are this Vanwide... and another bog standard, burnt out, 12t vent. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Today in East Yorkshire.Weeton - two ex-GWR vans with an ex-SR one in the middle.A1033, Keyingham, opposite the petrol station - ex-GWR van. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Here are a few more that I snapped in the past week, including a very uncommon BR meat van. Meat van at the side of the Halifax Road, near Penistone, Sth. Yorks. Ex-LMS(?) van in a field in Tideswell, Peak District. I'm not sure if I've posted this one before. If I have it was a poor photo so I stopped to take this one, near Mirfield, today. Ex LMS? The corrugated end has been cut and made into hinged doors. The 10" 0" wheelbase and XP markings are still visible but there was no running number at the other end. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim V Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Some bodies at Swindon circa '76. They were by some road improvements near the MSWJ crossing of the GW main line. Gone now of course. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_mcfarlane Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 At last! A prototype for all those layouts using the Airfix meat van as a grounded body (often 20 years before the real things were built and 40 before they were withdrawn). 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted April 26, 2013 Share Posted April 26, 2013 Just as a change from Vans but no number! Mark Saunders 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvdlcs Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Placed there intentionally or abandoned after a derailment? Would be interested to know what its purpose was if the former. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poor Old Bruce Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Placed there intentionally or abandoned after a derailment? Would be interested to know what its purpose was if the former. As it is marked "COND", I would suggest the former. I doubt that anybody would mark it at a derailment site as the priority was to clear the line. As it is apparently next to a live railway line, where is it please Mark. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Moxy Posted April 27, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2013 Would be interested to know what its purpose was if the former. Possibly a ballast bin? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Just as a change from Vans but no number! Hunslett Highfit body.jpg Mark Saunders It is between Neville Hill and Hunslett East. Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roythebus Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Probably the most unlikely place I've seen grounded BR van bodies was in Waterlooplein in amsterdam in about 1978! There were loads of them being used as storage for market traders. Quite how or when they got there who knows? I found a picture of one the other day. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 (edited) Today, near Sowerby. Elland. Edited May 19, 2013 by Ruston 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike morley Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 (edited) Cherry Orchard Farm, Penallt, on the climb out of the Wye Valley opposite Redbrook. I'm not sure if that green is paint or algae! A combination of both, possibly. Edited May 20, 2013 by mike morley 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 So that's what they mean by green Bananas.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard Lamb Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 High in the Moorfoot Hills below Garvald Law sits a lonely van. At one time there were at least another two in the area but on my last visit some time ago only the skeleton of one remained and I could now no longer find any trace of this. Bernard 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 (edited) I remember not so long ago a market of some sort on Holliday Wharf in central Birmingham (now plush apartments and the Registry office) being made up entirely of BR 12t van bodies. I regret that I never stopped to photograph or investigate further. Sadly it's now too late. Any photos out there of this location? If only to prove I didn't dream it. Andy Edited May 23, 2013 by SM42 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevecs Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 There are a couple here that I drive past on most days on my way to work. I have planned to photograph them on many occasions but its one of those places that its difficult to stop. They are not far from Thornton Depot (DBS) https://www.google.com/maps?ll=56.137516,-3.177795&spn=0.331713,1.056747&cbp=12,74.66,,1,3.26&layer=c&panoid=u-KMK14GpRt_WZGq1dTAzw&cbll=56.160312,-3.219175&dg=opt&t=m&z=11 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 there is one on the A565 Southport new road, I think there used to be a few more and dont remember it being in this state. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted July 6, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2013 (edited) One of my colleagues found this while on a job on a farm east of Winchester; I don't know the location. Any idea as to its origins? Pete Edited to add the picture! Edited July 6, 2013 by petethemole 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 winchester van.jpg One of my colleagues found this while on a job on a farm east of Winchester; I don't know the location. Any idea as to its origins? Pete Edited to add the picture! Were it not for the ventilator in the end, I'd be tempted to say either an LMS or early BR Banana van. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted July 6, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2013 The short end stanchions confused me as I didn't recognize them, but your suggestion led me back to LMS Wagons Vol 1. No Banana vans but some of the refrigerated diagrams have them. Diagram 1673 Ventilated Refrigerator Van is only represented by a drawing but this appears to have a louvred ventilator in the appropriate position. The doors look OK but there should be diagonal strapping either side. Given the state of it that may have rusted away and fallen off. If this is the correct diagram it's quite rare; only 30 were built. Pete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 6, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 6, 2013 There is what appears to be wooden strapping to the right of the doors forming an 'X', perhaps it was internal? There is what looks like metal strapping on the left lower corner and metal stanchions on the ends both of very distinctive design, also they appear to be intended for a low sided open wagon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 There is what appears to be wooden strapping to the right of the doors forming an 'X', perhaps it was internal? There is what looks like metal strapping on the left lower corner and metal stanchions on the ends both of very distinctive design, also they appear to be intended for a low sided open wagon. That design of short end stanchion was to be found on several Banana van designs produced by BR; examples existed with both two and four stanchions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruston Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 A few weeks ago I spotted this BR 12-tonner in the hills somewhere near Colne, Lancs. And Saturday just gone I found this ex-NER or LNER van, complete with wooden frames, at the side of the A6, north of Shap. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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