GWR 80225 Ballast Wagon
80225 is a GWRGreat Western Railway 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 headstocksThe underframe member across each end of a wagon carrying the buffers and coupling. Known as the Bufferbeam on a locomotive. while retaining a 9ft wheelbase. The internal height of 1ft 10in gave a nominal 8 cubic yard capacity.[1] The GWRGreat Western Railway did not allocate telegraphic codes to DepartmentalRolling stock used for the railway’s own functions (engineering etc.) rather than for general passenger or goods traffic. wagons of this type, although it was later classified as a STARFISH by BRBritish Rail or British Railways. It arrived on the SVRSevern Valley Railway in 1973.
Unusually, the wagon has two spoked wheels and two disk wheels.
It is a sister to SVRSevern Valley Railway-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 SVRSevern Valley Railway Stock Book Ninth Edition
- ↑ Atkins, Beard & Tourret (2013) pp. 319-320
