Good Day All,
In J.H. Russell's "Freight Wagons and Loads in service on the Great Western Railway and British Rail, Western Region" (Oxford Publishing 1981), figures 27 and 28 (the book does not do page numbers!!) show both ends of a 5 plank China Clay end door wagon W94071 fitted with an internal sheet bar.
The text does not make it clear whether the sheet bar is a permanent fixture or not, The top of the rail appears to be about 2 planks above the top of the wagon.
So my questions are :-
1) These wagons were built from 1955 onwards, when were these internal sheet bars fitted,
and
2) How did they work? Were they an internal version of the more normal external sheet bar, and did they pivot in a similar way?
Many thanks
Best regards
Paul
Anyone any ideas about the fitting of Internal Sheet Rails in china clay wagons?
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Re: Anyone any ideas about the fitting of Internal Sheet Rails in china clay wagons?
Not a solitary clue! This is specialist stuff, the arcana of one minor traffic flow. I would suggest
http://www.gwr.org.uk/index.html
as a good site to pick up leads to more information, and a google on GWR and BR(WR) china clay wagons to poke around for more. HTH!
http://www.gwr.org.uk/index.html
as a good site to pick up leads to more information, and a google on GWR and BR(WR) china clay wagons to poke around for more. HTH!