GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Knowle & Dorridge: gwrkd2810a

Close up of image 'gwrkd2810' showing the two sidings installed to provide accommodation for up to 14 horse boxes for the Knowle racehorse traffic. The two sidings are in this view now being used to stable empty flat wagons which would have been used to deliver 60' 0" lengths of rail or track panels. When coupled together the wagons would be able transport 300 foot continuous welded lengths of rails. Built from the early 1950s, the telegraph code allocated to them was 'Salmon'. Measuring 62' 0" over headstocks they were equipped with GWR style plate bogies of either 8' 0" (long) wheelbase, which were fitted to about two thirds of the wagons, or standard 5' 6" (short) wheelbase. Their usefulness, many have also been used without bolsters to carry bridge girders etc, has meant that many of these wagons are still in use well into the second decade of the 21st century.

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