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GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
Birmingham Snow Hill Station - Grouping Period Rolling
Stock: gwrbsh1779
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Fifty-seven foot long, steel panelled, toplight
Parcels Brake Van (PBV) No. 1145, recently painted in post-war Hawksworth
chocolate and cream livery, is seen here being shunted by an unidentified 4-6-0
49xx (Hall) class locomotive on duty as the Snow Hill station pilot in 1947.
No. 1145 was built to diagram K22 under lot 1301 in July 1922. This lot had
running numbers 1129 to 1153. A further thirteen PBVs had previously been built
to the same diagram (K22) on lots 1253 (1915), 1288 (1921) and 1281 (1922).
Each had two luggage compartments accessed by double doors and a guard's
compartment. Although steam heating was included from day one, this was not
always available throughout the train and during the 1940s gas heating was also
provided in the guard's compartment. The roof was the high elliptical type
constructed of wood and canvas and internally electric lighting was provided.
This PBV is carried on nine foot American equalised bogies, a type
first adopted in 1906, but phased out on passenger stock after the extensive
coach riding trials undertaken in 1925. All of these PBVs had been condemned by
December 1962.
This photograph is displayed courtesy of the HMRS
(Historical Model Railway Society) and copies can be ordered directly from them
using the link
HERE, quoting reference AEL409.
Robert Ferris
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