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Re: Grounded railway van bodies
By: steifbear Date: June 5, 2012, 3:36 pm
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Sen on the cam high road near Bainbridge in the Yorkshire dales.
Pete Stevens-with-a-V
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Re: Grounded railway van bodies
By: Dave Date: July 3, 2012, 1:27 pm
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That's the same LNER Fruit van as in the first pic on page one
of this thread ^
Last Thursday whilst out and about at work.
BR 12-ton van, somewhere near Ilkley.
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Another of the same in an allotment in Normanton.
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I spotted this coach, near Thirlmere, whilst greenlaning at the
weekend.
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And this van body at the side of the Old Coach Road.
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Re: Grounded railway van bodies
By: Wooden Date: July 3, 2012, 1:39 pm
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What is the rarest van body that you've found/seen..?
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Re: Grounded railway van bodies
By: mistericeman Date: July 3, 2012, 1:44 pm
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Funny you should ask that one ....
I'm sure Dave will be along shortly to "rate" the meat wagon
Tracey and me spotted last year and re-visited with Dave weekend
just gone ;-)
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Re: Grounded railway van bodies
By: Dave Date: July 3, 2012, 2:26 pm
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What is the rarest van body that you've found/seen..?
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It's possibly this one:
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A BR meat van. They only built 100 of them compared to thousands
of the ordinary ventilated vans so the survival rate has got to
be very low.
Or it could be the one on the left:
HTML http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/soddit36/gvbandpeaks004.jpg
With no end vents it must be an insulated van and therefore rare
because the 12 inches of insulation takes up a lot of space and
I guess they would have been passed over for the lighter and
more spacious ordinary vans when the bodies were sold off. That
one's on a farm in Bradwell, Derbys.
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Re: Grounded railway van bodies
By: Wooden Date: July 3, 2012, 2:36 pm
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Aside from the logistics of moving one (not to mention where to
keep it) have you not ever been tempted to acquire one of the
rarer vans and restore it?
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Re: Grounded railway van bodies
By: Dave Date: July 3, 2012, 3:31 pm
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No. They'd probably fall to bits anyway. That meat van literally
had at least a couple of feet deep mud and sheep shit inside it
and you can bet that's all that's holding it up.
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Re: Grounded railway van bodies
By: Wooden Date: July 3, 2012, 4:24 pm
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Yes, you're doubtless right. I just get stupidly romantic and
misty-eyed about wanting to preserve dwindling bits of our
industrial heritage. Very interesting to see the pics though,
thanks.
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Re: Grounded railway van bodies
By: Roveerman Date: July 6, 2012, 7:04 am
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Was going to post a pic of that very same coach body, went past
last week, won't bother as its here now.
Any info as to what it is?
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Re: Grounded railway van bodies
By: Dave Date: July 7, 2012, 4:08 pm
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No. I know very little about coaches.
But I do know that this was a gunpowder van.
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All steel construction so as couldn't be set afire by stray
sparks from a locomotive chimney. Probably GWR or BR Western
Region.
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