NCB - Green and Grey - NCB - Pack O - Exclusive Mark 1 Coaches

NCB - Green and Grey - NCB - Pack O - Exclusive Mark 1 CoachesThe widespread withdrawal of 21t hoppers from the mainline network led to many being repurposed by BR or sold on to private companies for internal use. One such operator was the National Coal board who had a coal disposal site and washery at Gwaun Cae Gurwen, South Wales. The railhead was operated by Powell Duffryn Coal Preparation, and they required a fleet of internal user wagons for the transfer of coal around the site. During the early 1990s this

handbrake wheels and brake gear

Five different body designs

Instead of scrapping

Roller Bearing Axle-boxes

Wheelbase of 42mm

and mixed with other steel wagons such as Coil B

at Stratford in 1904 and incorporated many of the improvements made to the R24 Class in the 1902 Improvement Programme

Palace Gates and Blackheath

the bottom sections of any remaining wooden stanchions were removed

removable ‘greedy boards’ (horizontal board extensions to the body) to the Shildon Works built Chaldron

vacuum pipe and flush sided doors

with additional one-piece NEM mounted option