GWR 94059 China Clay Open Wagon
94059 is one of 500 built at Swindon in 1914 to Diagram O13, Lot 777. It is a 4-wheeled 5-plank open tippler wagon with a capacity of 12 tons. The wagons were used until the 1950s to haul china clay from Cornwall to the Staffordshire potteries, and accordingly were given the telegraphic code 'Clay'. In service they were fitted with zinc-lined floors, as the normal wooden floor of a wagon could stain the clay.
94059 was sold to the Port of Bristol Authority in 1958 for use on the Avonmouth Docks internal system, where it was numbered PBA 58028. It was acquired from there, arriving on the SVRSevern Valley Railway on 8 September 1975, and is owned by The GWR 813 Preservation Fund.
See Also
References
SVRSevern Valley Railway Stock Book 9th Edition
Links
94059 on www.gwr813.org
94059 on www.vintagecarriagestrust.org
