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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS: Birmingham New Street to Tamworth
Kingsbury Station: mrk1127
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Looking from the down platform across to the station
building whilst mineral wagons stand on the down line on 24th April 1952. The
wagons are British Railways 16 ton non-vacuum mineral wagons with a drop flap
fitted above the central door and were designed to carry coal, scrap metal,
rock-salt, stone and for various other tasks, including carrying ballast for
track renewal which is their probable purpose in this view. By the end of 1948
British Railways had something like a million assorted 'unfitted' wagons and
vans and about a hundred thousand 'fitted' vehicles. Roughly a third of the
rolling stock was more than twenty five years old - that is it dated from
before the 1923 grouping. There were in the region of thirty thousand 'service'
vehicles in departmental use, about twenty thousand containers of various types
and about half a million ex-private owner mineral wagons which had been bought
from their owners after the end of the war. There were still about twenty
thousand privately owned railway vehicles on the system, these being wagons and
vans carrying specialist loads such as salt or lime or rail tanks for oil and
other liquids. Most of these wagons were in a very poor condition by this time
and many were still fitted with grease packed axle boxes.
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