Prototype Useful train formations

Ian G

Western Thunderer
I remeber as a youngster watching the Princes Risborough to Aylesbury DMU towing a single van behind, never found out why.

Ian G
 

Wagonman

Western Thunderer
I remeber as a youngster watching the Princes Risborough to Aylesbury DMU towing a single van behind, never found out why.

Ian G


Tail loads behind DMUs were not unknown in those days (though I dare say the Aylesbury train was a DSU).
 

Steph Dale

Western Thunderer
Any ideas why the steel bodied van on the right (ex gunpowder?) has a window in the end? Some departmental use I guess?

Steph
 

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
Any ideas why the steel bodied van on the right (ex gunpowder?) has a window in the end? Some departmental use I guess?
Not an ex-gunpowder van at all. The GWR built "iron" bodied covered wagons for several departments, two examples are tool vans for Pooley (installation and servicing of weighing equipment) and mobile air compressors for the civil engineers. Some of the wagons were four wheel and some were six wheel... a fair number of these wagons were allocated diagrams and hence drawings are available.
 
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