Keith Turton's Private Owner wagon's in Warwickshire

Griff Colliery: misc_kt376

Wagon No 1431 is one of a batch of forty delivered in 1905 by Hurst, Nelson of Motherwell. Numbered 1400 to 1439, they were registered by the Midland Railway. The body colour (suggested as medium grey,but could also be red) and lettering is not typical of this owner, Hurst Nelson often painted a wagon in a workshops livery for photographic purposes rather than how they would have appeared in service and this may be an example.

After the end of the First World War, the colliery acquired 77 surplus open mineral wagons from the Ministry of Munitions. After slight modifications by local wagon works, they became no's 1801 to 1877 in the Griff fleet, which in the 1930's numbered some1,400 wagons, of which aroud 400 were reported as static in colliery sidings, loaded, awaiting customers.

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