Goods wagons and Brakevans.
 

Do you know, if there are ANYWHERE in the UK any of the loose coupled unfitted goods wagons or Brakevans still about, not including the preservation railways. Is there any that are sat rusting away in some sidings somewhere ? Or have they all gone to that big sidings in the sky ?

48111

Hi,

The Great Central is host to a set of 16 (I think) mineral wagons (saved by Steam Railway magazine as they often tell us), that will have a guards van on the end. The set is used a 'windcutter' set - from the nickname for the relativly fast running freight trains that used it before Beeching shut it.

Now the line is in use (for preservation purposes), so what was the best line for a high speed route (as it was built both last in the country (except for HS1), and as a link to an earlier (& not completed) channel tunnel building) is not available; or the joys of totally short term thinking!

Yes, thanks for that mate.The clanging of buffers whilst shunting is a sound we no longer hear in these modern times.But then there is no shunting these days is there !

48111

Hi Nope its all unit trains, can you imagine the shouts etc if 'residents' still had the crash and bangs of a good or large shunting yard?

They compain like mad round here at the low sound of a diesel and train passing in a cutting!

Yours Peter.