This file consists of extracts from the Locomotive Magazine between 1900 and 1920, showing articles relating to GER wagons.

The GER had 30,104 wagons and ranked tenth being broadly comparable with the Great Northern, Great Central and Lancashire & Yorkshire. This, of course, is only one comparison …

Ballast Wagons. The steel framed ballast wagon, dumb buffered and brakeless, introduced in 1887, continued to be built up to 1905, to a total of 225. It had a 3 plank dropside body, 12ft …

The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The …

The system of German railway wagon classes (Wagengattungen) was introduced in Germany in 1902 and 1905 by the Prussian state railways based on their system of norms, and was soon …

Media in category "Great Eastern Railway wagons" The following 10 files are in this category, out of 10 total.

Nov 29, 2024 · Designed to replace the ageing 8-ton and 9-ton timber framed wagons of the 1870s and 1880s, the Diagram 17s were a robust steel framed 5-plank wagon with a 9ft …

Oct 21, 2014 · Fortuitously D&S Models include these loco coal wagons in the range, but need to be backdated to cater for the GER period. Here’s a shelf-queen by D&S which I started many …

East Anglia is home to several of the larger agricultural equipment manufacturers and such equipment was regular cargo for the railway, carried on open wagons. Sugar beet, a notable …

This period saw the greatest wagon building activity ever achieved by the GER. It resulted in a significant increase in total stock, an overall modernisation of the wagon fleet and a variety of …