Abandoned wagons/carriages

[danielcanning]

Sometimes wagons are just left in sidings for years or sometimes decades to slowly rust, for example there was a train of wagons in a siding in Neasden for over 20 years until suddenly one day they disappeared. Are they left there because it’s too much hassle to scrap them or are they just forgotten about?

 

[Cowley]

Sometimes wagons are just left in sidings for years or sometimes decades to slowly rust, for example there was a train of wagons in a siding in Neasden for over 20 years until suddenly one day they disappeared. Are they left there because it’s too much hassle to scrap them or are they just forgotten about?

There is actually an existing thread on that subject here:

Abandoned wagons and rolling stock on the network

I was passing through Cleland en route to Edinburgh Waverley today for the first time since electrification. At Cleland I kept an eye out for the abandoned wagon I used to see in the disused sidings that was trapped by trees only to find that it has been removed. Probably as part of the...

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