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(Scrap?) Wagons on the move.
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Peter Sarf
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Those look like ferry vans (not the normal curtain sided).
I very very very vaguely recall there were some left at somewhere like Paddock Wood for so long that people thought they could never move again.
I very very very vaguely recall there were some left at somewhere like Paddock Wood for so long that people thought they could never move again.
Interesting!Those look like ferry vans (not the normal curtain sided).
I very very very vaguely recall there were some left at somewhere like Paddock Wood for so long that people thought they could never move again.
I clearly wasn’t paying attention as I hadn’t registered that only one of them is in fact a curtainsider!
Gloster
Established Member
The first one is a BR Diagram 1/227 Ferry Van dating from the early 1960s. I don’t think that the second one is a conversion of a Ferry Van as those that weren’t reduced to underframe level usually kept the original ends.
Bob figgis
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Many years ago I used to walk the fence at the M.O.D Bicester. These look very similar to the wagons that were used internally on site.
ChiefPlanner
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One looks like an ex BR Ferrywagon (as mentioned above) - "VJX" on Tops. Once BR had stopped sending it's own ago overseas , they had very little commercial use in the UK , and we often used as barrier wagons etc for dangerous goods flows. Usurped by much more modern Cargowaggons etc for European traffic , ditto the VXX fleet domestically.
It was a relief for BR to sell some off for internal use to the MOD , which looks line one in the picture.
It was a relief for BR to sell some off for internal use to the MOD , which looks line one in the picture.
Gloster
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The second wagon does look like it is one of former Procor curtain-sided wagons bought by the Ministry of Defence from CAIB in 1997. They were numbered MODA 7427-7446 and coded PMA.