Either the railway replaced them with companyowned wagons or the private owner spent their proceeds on new rchtype wagons. Contains the only known to me drawing of a broadgauge po wagon martin bros of cornwall. This is the final volume of the authors seventeen year excursion into the field of the private owner wagon. Our series of volumes on private owner wagons goes from strength to strength, each volume being eagerly awaited by. At the start of world war ii, private owner coal wagons were pooled, which meant that they ended up all over britain, but generally speaking, coal carrying private owner wagons became obsolete on. It is illustrated with over 450 photographs, items of ephemera. This index alphabetically lists references in books to private owner railway wagons and tankers by company name. Lightmoor press plateway industrial railway society.
It is possible that a scottish coal merchant would use buy coal from a midland served colliery, so it would be seen there. A third collection, 2004, private owner wagons, r k turton shop online for books in the united states we use cookies to. Book 1 books, find the lowest price on new, used books, textbooks. We came across a collection of a hundred or so old photographs of private owner coal wagons whilst browsing at an antique fair one day. Private owner wagons, r k turton shop online for books.
These wagons would display the name of the company on its sides. This situation resulted in a proliferation of private owner wagons, and growth in wagon makers. Each of the businesses is given a short history, together with all known details of their wagon fleet. It was originally intended that this would be the first of a continuing private owner wagons collection series under a new authorship but very much continuing.
I was recently very pleased to be emailed the following index compiled by joe greaves of references to pre 1948 private owner open and tank wagons and vans as indicated in a range of popular books. Over eighty businesses are identified in the book and the text is illustrated with more than 250 photographs of the wagons and their places of work. Private owner wagons for the ince waggon and ironworks company by watts, toby and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. This book breaks new ground in showing how and why private owner wagons were built and used for transporting vast amounts of coal around the uk railway. Stewardship private owner wagons pre 1948 john arkell overview. Each company is listed by an abbreviation of the books author and its page number. Private owner wagons keith w turton musicmagpie store. Bibliography these books are useful, mostly available from second hand dealers. Range of a private owner wagon uk prototype questions. His meticulous research has involved detailed study of the railways private owner wagon registers that have survived. Between 1882 and 1902 the midland railway purchased 66,000 privateowner wagons and built over 50,000 of its own wagons as replacements. This book breaks new ground in showing how and why private owner wagons were built and used for transporting vast amounts of coal around the uk railway system. Coal factors tended to be similar, but often bought coal in larger quantities.
Over eighty businesses are identified in the book and the text is illustrated with more than 250 photographs of. Detailed and well illustrated look at the private owner wagons almost all coal wagons built by this. The second book in this series covers the allsteel open mineral wagon. Private owner wagons index manchester model railway society. This sixth volume follows the familiar and much acclaimed format of this series and takes a look at another wide range of wagons and their operators. Private owner wagons a fourteenth collection, by keith. Private owner wagons by hudson bill and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone.
Private owner wagons from the gloucester railway carriage and wagon co. Private owner wagon books our series of volumes on private owner wagons goes from strength to strength, each volume being eagerly awaited by railway and industrial historians alike as the books go much further than just giving details of the wagon. Private owner wagons from the ince waggon and ironworks. Keith montague private owner wagons, collections 1 to keith. Published in 1973 as a map technical publication, no.
Private owner wagons from the gloucester railway carriage and wagon company ltd written by montague, keith published by oxford publishing stock. Private owner wagons from the gloucester railway carriage and wagon company ltd. Each company is listed by an abbreviation of the book s author and its page number. Volume 2 it like the rest of its companion volumes a photographic history of private owner wagons. Within this book over 70 owners of the hard worked privately owned wagon are featured ranging, as in the quote above, from the largest utility to the smallest of. Hello all ive started creating a searchable index to published private owner wagons in excel format. Im about half way through indexing the 30 or so publications on po wagons from the uk. After a company history, including the 1960 official history, the main part of the book is 665 wagon photographs with caption details. The internal use brake van is again a colliery type, sketched from a photograph in one of bill hudsons books on private owner rolling stock again see bibliography. If you have got any of the other volumes you cannot go wrong buying this one. A further issue in this series adds to the available data with over eighty more businesses and their private branded wagons. Private owner wagons of gloucestershire rail books. The most comprehensive, single publication of uk railway stock on the market constantly uptodate and printed regularly throughout the year regular updates exclusive for book owners the only publication to list all of the uks rolling stock available via the shop page.
Private owner wagons were common on the railways up to the formation of british railways when the newly nationalised br inherited over half a million of them. Wagon books and drawings, including private owner wagons and breakdown cranes. New and stricter standards were introduced by the rch in 1909 which required. The ninth volume of this remarkable series of books, now regarded as one of the definitive sets on the subject of private owner wagons contains the usual wide variety of owners and operators, both in terms of business type and geographical spread. Private owner wagons 0 gauge in english language spur. This volume is a companion to the authors previous book on wagons of the forest of dean currently out of print. It has been sketched from a photograph in peter mathews book on private owner wagons for details of which see bibliography.
It lists wagons by owner, location, county, associated railway, type and publication. Private owner wagons written by hudson, bill published by the oakwood press stock code. Titfield home page booksearch shop main page browse other shelves. British goods wagons from 1887 to the present day r j essery etc. This fleet included 12t former private owner wagons, gwr loco coal. Private owner wagons a fourteenth collection, by keith turton. Visit musicmagpie for great deals and super savings with free delivery today. It takes a look at all of the known private owner wagon owners and operators based in gloucestershire with almost 250 wagons being identified. Colliery owned wagons, coal factor owned wagons, and coal merchant owned wagons. A mineral wagon or coal truck british english is a small opentopped railway goods wagon. His series in the old model railway news in the 1960s is a goldmine of info on po wagons and this book includes a number of drawings and interesting black and white photos from all over the uk. Make offer job lot of 8 mainline private owner wagons. The study of the private owner wagon and its place in the history of rail transportation in this country was almost completely ignored for many years, when this series was first published in 2004 only thirteen books had been written on it, now there are 25 and more in the pipeline.
Categories other uk books non irs books lightmoor press plateway. Keith turton author of private owner wagons goodreads. The modellers sketchbook of private owner wagons, book one. Id always expected that private owner wagons would most likely be seen somewhere near home home being the line serving the po company and almost all the ones ive made have been lettered with companies on the line, or somewhere close to the line im modelling. Fine study of the wagons produced by the gloucester company for private owners. Taking a closer look we found one for ernest franklin which was of particular interest and so bought it for our memorabilia collection. Offers mobile phones tech tech accessories gaming books dvd bluray music vinyl certified refurbished all offers. This particular volume is again full of black and white photographs but there are a few more of the early 14ton tank wagons.
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