SimonLMoore

Possibly so on both counts but the wording specifically notes 4 and 6 wheelers, rather than it being due to other details of construction or fittings.

Hi all, long time lurker, infrequent poster. The reason for the break in silence, I will soon be moving to somewhere with space enough to again think of building a model railway after many years in the wilderness. I'm planning to model early standard gauge preservation days in a freelance setting, something like a steam/railway centre. As inspiration I've been browsing early photos of Dinting, Steamton, Steamport and the early days of the KWVR, Lakeside & Haverthwaite and the Bluebell. I also have some early stockbooks/guides from some of these and noted an interesting point in the first KWVR stockbook which states that the 4 wheel carriages then on the line could not be used as passenger vehicles due to a ban on the use of 6 and 4 wheelers enforced by the Ministry of Transport, this being the early '70s. Could anyone provide more detail on this? How did the use of brakevans as passenger carrying vehicles fit into this? Presumably it didn't apply to the narrow gauge and must have been lifted as a restriction on the standard gauge at some point. I'd much appreciate any further information anyone might have, obviously it may well influence my choice of rolling stock.