GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Moor Street Station: gwrms2740a

Close up of the covered wagon No B851720 on the traverser. This is a 12 ton shock absorbing van (coded SHOCVAN) built to British Railways diagram 1/209. The body was one foot shorter than the standard covered van design to allow for shock absorbing movement, but was similar in construction with; Wolverton-type pressed steel ends fitted with a single central bonnet ventilator and Swindon style sides - horizontally planked body and vertically planked hinged side doors, both with diagonal framing. The underframe was identical to that used on other British Railways wagons, with fully fitted vacuum brakes, Morton brake levers and instanter couplings.

A total of 3,000 of these covered shock absorbing wagons were built to this diagram, as detailed below:

Robert Ferris

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