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British Railways Presflo cement wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1961

Chemins de Fer de Paris a Lyon et a la Mediterranee (PLM) train ferry van, 1935

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1935

London Midland & Scottish Railway United Dairies milk wagon, 1937

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1937

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Milk van, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1936

British Railways Horse Box

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1957

20-ton Goods Brake Van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1933

British Railways Special Cattle Van, 1951

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1951

British Railways railway wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1950

Mineral wagon used at Stanton Ironworks

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1931

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1894

Mink G fruit van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1931

National Benzole tank wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1954

Dandy cart and horse

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845-1855

London & North Western Railway railway wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1917

12-ton 3-Plank open wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1936

Railway wagon, banana van, No B882593, British Railways, 1960. Length 20' 10"; width 7' 10"; height 12" 10'.

British Railways Banana Van, 1960

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1960

Railway wagon, British Railways, 16T mineral wagon, No B227009, 1955.

16-ton mineral wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1955

Tank wagon, North Eastern Railway, Shell-Mex and BP Ltd saddle-mounted oil tank wagon, No 512, tank capacity 2047 gallons, built by Darlington Wagon & Engineering Company for the North Central Wagon Company and registered with the North Eastern Railway in 1889.

Tank wagon, North Eastern Railway - Shell-Mex and BP Ltd

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway, 4-sided with door at one end, unpainted.

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1835-1845

BR iron ore tippler

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1954

Container wagon, British Railways, 13 ton Container flat wagon, Conflat A, No. B737725, built Ashford, 1959. [Built to diagram BR Wagon 69, number built 7700].

Container flat wagon,conflat A

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1959

Railway wagon, No 161042, 50-ton bogie flat wagon, Warflat WC, used by the War Department and British Railways built by Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Company Limited, 1940. Built to diagram number BR Wagon 73, number built 60. Length over buffers: 43' 10 1/2"; width 7' 10"; height 5'.

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1940

Coal hopper wagon, Prototype HAA 'Merry-Go-Round' wagon No 350000, 32.5 ton, built by British Railways, Darlington Works, 1964. Length over buffers: 29' 8"; width 9'.

Prototype British Railways 'Merry-go-Round' hopper coal wagon, 1964

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1964

Railway wagon, British Railways, 30T Bogie Bolster "C", No B943139, built by Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Company Limited, 1952. [Built to diagram number BR Wagon 471, construction span 1951-1953, number built 1398].

British Railways 30 ton Bogie Bolster C

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1952

Chaldron wagon, Seaham Harbour Tramway, Owned by Marquis of Londonderry (Vane-Tempest, George) from Seaham Harbour c.1870. No.31, wooden bucket design, painted black with "32 L 2.13.0" in white.

Seaham Harbour chaldron wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1865-1875

Fish Van, Insulfish No.B87905, 12T insulated fish van, British Railways, 1959. Length 20' 10"; width 7' 10"; height 12' 10".

British Railways insulated fish van, 1959

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1959

Mineral Wagon, Societe Nationale de Chemins de Fer Francais (Nord Region) and re-conditioned by British Railways in 1950, 16-ton (16T) mineral wagon, No ADB 192437, of 1946, built to SNCF/ Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Company design of 1945. [Designated diagram number BR wagon 1/112, construction span 1945-1946, number built 7000]. Restored by HMS Sultan apprentices in October 1990.

SNCF/BR mineral wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1946

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway, tare weight 1-18-3, two wheels marked 'Darlington Wagon & Engineering Co.' and one wheel 'Blaydon'.

Chaldron wagon, Stockton & Darlington Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1815-1825

Railway wagon, Great Western Railway, 12ton Motor Car Van, 'Mogo', No. 126438, built Swindon Works, date to traffic 6th April 1935. [Built to diagram number GWR Wagon G31, construction span 1934-1936, number built 350].

Great Western Railway Mogo

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1935

Model 7-plank wagon

Railway Models

1986

Railway wagon, Peak Forest Canal Tramway Truck , No 174, wooden base with metal sides, painted black and numbered in white, metal flangeless wheels, open-topped. 32" high, 50" wide and 74" deep.

Peak Forest Canal Tramway wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

Hopper Wagon, North Eastern Railway, Coal Hopper Wagon No 4551 20T of 1902.

Hopper wagon, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Wagon, 23-ton bogie hopper wagon, No 19154, built by Charles Roberts & Co, Wakefield, 1953, refurbished and vacuum braked by ICI at Northwich, 1983, used to carry limestone, to and from Tunstead, Derbyshire.

Bogie hopper wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1953

Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880-1884

Brake van, Southern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1936

Model 7-plank open coal wagon

Railway Models

1986

Model 7-plank wagon

Railway Models

1974

Model 5-plank wagon

Railway Models

1984

Chaldron wagon, Cramlington Colliery, believed to have been built c1826, slatted wooden sides, floor and ends missing, painted black. Height: 6' 3"; width: 5'; length: 10'.

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1821-1831

Model 3-plank wagon

Railway Models

1968

Model 7-plank open coal wagon

Railway Models

1975

Model 7-plank open coal wagon

Railway Models

1986

Model 7-plank coal wagon

Railway Models

1984

model 6-plank wagon

Railway Models

1974

Model 5-plank wagon

Railway Models

1986

model meat van

Railway Models

Hopper Wagon, London & North Eastern Railway, 20T steel hopper coal wagon, No E270919, built by Hurst Nelson & Co. Ltd, Motherwell, 1946. [Built to diagram number 100, construction span 1936-1948, number built c. 8000+].

Hopper wagon, London & North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1946

Shell-Mex & British Petroleum Limited Tank Wagon, rectangular in shape with a 10-12T capacity. No 3171, built in 1901, for carrying oil. Registered with Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, no. 12739 and claimed from Falmouth Docks.

BP tank wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

Low machine wagon, London & South Western Railway, Lowmac, No DS563024, built 1921.

London & South Western Railway, Lowmac, No DS563024

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1921