Mainline ZBA DB97584

 12T  Mainline ZBA DB97584 at the Nene Valley Peterborough station.

This wagon which was at the Nene Valley Railways Peterborough station that day, was in its, as it came state.This wagon was one of three mainline ZBA wagons.

Mainline ZBA DB972206

12T  Mainline ZBA DB972206 at the Nene Valley Peterborough station.

This wagon was in the bay platform at the Nene Valley Railways Peterborough station that dayThis wagon was one of three mainline ZBA wagons

 

ZBA

 

ZBA DB984194 at the Nene Valley Peterborough station.

This wagon was at the Nene Valley Railways Peterborough station. 

16T Mineral wagon B595229

 

16T Mineral wagon B595229 at the Nene Valleys Wansford station in 2005

This wagon has now left the Nene Valley Railway

The BR 16 Ton steel mineral wagon has a 9ft wheelbase.  Between the years 1950 and 1958 about 220,000 of these mineral wagons were built in the BR works and by private builders.

MOD no.4730 steel open wagon 

 

MOD no.4730 steel open wagon at the Nene Valleys Peterborough railway station in May 2014. 

 This wagon has MOD no.4730 in the panel on the lefthand side. It also has "For Interal use only" on it.

B494730 steel open wagon at the Nene Valleys Wansford railway station on the 11th of September 2016.

This is the wagon in the photo above repainted.

This Page is about some of the wagons that have been saved. It is not just locomotives that needed saving. Today with no short wheelbase unfitted wagons left on the main lines, someone needed to have saved some.

The very slow pick up freight, stopping at small way side stations are long gone. Todays airbraked trains of long wheel base wagons can now do 60mph. These freights are now in block trains.

The local pick freight would pick up one wagon from a small wayside station. This  train took the wagon to a larger freight yard. The wagons were then shunted onto to another freight train to another yard, were it would then be shunted into another pick freight. This traffic was slow. These trains used wagons that had change little over the years. It often took days to get from A to B.

Coal oil and fish and livestock plus parcels newspapers and mail were all moved by rail plus ever sort of cargo that day goes by road. Moving cargos like coal and iorn ore was why the railways were opened. The roads were often only muddy tracks when the railway first opened. Trains to carry people came later. Saving wagons is just as important as locomotives.

Nene Valley Railway wagons

Open wagons wood	Open wagons steel	Covered Vans	PW wagons
CWS Coal Department Manchester	21T hopper wagon B427960	12T Banana van B881987	17T Mackeral DB992358
Peterborough Coal & Coke Co Ltd	21T hopper wagon B430226	Palvan B778810	Shark E DB 993836
12T open SHOCK wagon B721890	Mainline ZBA DB977584	B761651 venterated van	Lowmac 1
12T open wagon S5869	Mainline ZBA DB972206	Venterated Van B786075	Lowmac 2
3-plank open wagon	Mainline ZBA DB984194	Venterated van B759852	WELTROL MX
	16T Mineral wagon B595229	12T venterated van B774874
page1	MOD no.4730 steel open wagon	Venterated Van Wansford no number	Brake Vans
	B494730 as above repainted	Venterated Van B785122	20T  Brake Van B954024
Tank Wagons	page 2	Vanfit B77765	Brake Van B953944
14T ESSO  tank wagon	NVR pages on this site	Van in bay Wansford no number	Brake Van S55550
			20T Brake van 9300/4

This website is Ukrailways1970tilltoday.me.uk it is on railways but it is not just on trains but all things railways, with photos, which I have taken from the 1970s till now. I take photos of all things railways, steam diesel and electric trains, signal boxes, wagons any thing that is on the National Rail network, which was BR when I started taken photos.