Acquired Wagons of British Railways Volume 5- Open Goods Wagons inc Medium Goods, High Goods, Hybars, Shocks & PW Opens

British Railways was created in 1948 when the Great Western, the London, Midland & Scottish, the London & North Eastern and the Southern were taken into public ownership. BR inherited all their locos, passenger and goods rolling stock. Whilst much has been published on BR locos and passenger stock, accurate and detailed coverage of the large inventory of vehicles used to convey the huge volumes of goods traffic carried by the railways at that time, is less readily available. This series sets out to provide that information. Starting with an overview of the categories of vehicles covered, this volume explores the fleet of open general merchandise wagons, of various sizes, acquired from the 'Big Four'. The types of wagons covered in this volume includes three-plank mostly dropside opens and the more common general merchandise five-plank versions. It also deals with all the wagons with shock absorbing equipment from the 1930s onwards, low sided 20-ton capacity all-steel aggregate wagons and PW open wagons.