LMS Route: Evesham to Birmingham

Alcester Station: mra136a

Close up of image 'mra136' showing the two 10ft wheelbase, unfitted, 12 ton ex-NE vans standing in Alcester's goods yard. The design was originally used by the LNER for its first decade. The prototype had a wooden chassis, which was unusual for vans by this time. Most were built without vacuum brakes as seen above. Vans of this type were still in evidence into the early 1960s, when the final cull of merchandise vehicles with wooden chassis took place. Their successors, LNER standard ventilated vans were built on both timber and steel underframes, fitted and unfitted, with spoked or disc wheels and with timber or corrugated steel ends.

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