GWR 80225 Ballast Wagon
80225 is a GWR 10T all-steel dropside ballast wagon built as Swindon in 1937 to diagram P15. The 'new generation' ballast wagons of this type began in 1935 with Diagram P15, which had an increased length over earlier designs of 16ft 6in over the headstocks while retaining a 9ft wheelbase. The internal height of 1ft 10in gave a nominal 8 cubic yard capacity.[1] The GWR did not allocate telegraphic codes to Departmental wagons of this type, although it was later classified as a STARFISH by BR. It arrived on the SVR in 1973.
Unusually, the wagon has two spoked wheels and two disk wheels.
It is a sister to SVR-based 80603 and 80684. In addition 60906 is an earlier version and 30903 a later development, built to diagrams P14 and P18 respectively.
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80225 at Arley
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References
Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey SVR Stock Book Ninth Edition
- ↑ Atkins, Beard & Tourret (2013) pp. 319-320