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Moor Street Station: gwrms1710

A view of Moor Street in May 1915 with the passenger terminus station dominated by the completed high level shed

A view of Moor Street in May 1915 with the passenger terminus station dominated by the completed high level shed. The transhipment siding is full of covered vans (telegraphic code Mink) and sheeted open wagons (telegraphic code Open-A). Adjacent to the open wagon with the sheet support is a twenty-one foot long covered wagon (diagram V7), with a twelve foot wheelbase, two side doors and a capacity of ten tons. It has a pair of louver ventilators on each end, so will be termed a Mink C, these sliding louvers were later modified to bonnet ventilators. This Mink-C was one of 425 built between 1906 and 1907 with Dean / Churchward type vacuum brakes. Similar twenty-one/two foot long covered wagons were built later for special traffic. These were designed to operate in passenger trains and had the telegraphic codenames; Bloater (diagram S6) for fish, and Fruit (diagram Y3/6) for perishable fruit and banana traffic.

Robert Ferris

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