SLNCR Wagons

[Rob R]

Following on   from the excellent talk last night I thought I would post up what little I have gathered about the wagonry of the erstwhile SL&NCR.

I have no primary sources, just the late Mr Sprink's books and keen eye when trawling through the internet.

The IRRS of course does have a small selection of Manorhamilton drawings available in the SLNCR Wagon Compendium, absolutely invaluable but as is so often the way with these it raises almost as many questions as it answers!

I suspect most, if not all the SLNCR goods vehicles were rebuilt, probably more than once, so it is likely that there were 153 unique and very individual wagons at the end.

I am slowly compiling a spread sheet,trying to match numbers to wagon types as well as indexing known photos. It will be some time before this is anything like presentable but in the meantime I will try and outline the different varieties of wagons that were running in the SLNCR last 30 years or so.

The starting point for any research is the list of extant wagons at closure to be found in the Sprinks history. This gives an overview of the surviving wagons and their numbers but only breaks things down to a basic description such as Opens, Cattle, Vans etc.

II must thank Ernie for his excellent collection of SLNCR photos on Flickr and I hope he doesn't mind if I use a few here.

To start with I will pick the low hanging fruit - the Open wagons.

The Sprinks list gives the numbers of the surviving 30 vehicles and from photos I have identified 6 more which faded from the scene before the end.

I have identified 6 types of open wagons including the 6 wheel P Way wagons.

The numbers quoted below are those I have confirmed from photographic evidence. 

4 1/2 ton 3 plank  No 1 Illustrated in the Sprinks album

7 ton 3 plank  Nos 3, 7, 9, 23

7 ton 3 plank dropside  Nos 143, 145, 148

7 ton 4 plank  Nos 3, 67, 133, 134, 137, 139, 196, 198

Note the buffers differ to the unidentified example above.

7 ton 3 plank drop end  "Flat Truck for Road Vehicles" No 201 possibly more, an unidentified vehicle shown here.

Similar to, possibly modified from, the 3 plank. The chain on the end door latch is clearly visible.

Also the IRRS has No 201 in a Robin Clements view that I can't link to at the moment because the Flickr site seems to be down

The IRRS Drawing Compendium has the Manorhamilton GA of these vehicles.

Edit:- this differs from the drawing. Drawing has only 1 side post, this (and possibly 201) has 2.

6w P Way   Nos 5, 25

No 5 illustrated in the Spinks history book and else where.

The IRRS Drawing Compendium has the Manorhamilton GA of these vehicles.

 

That's it for now.

Please feel free to add anything else you can and please don't hold your breath for the next installment because vans and cattle seem to be a lot more complicated.

Rob

 

Edited 11 hours ago by Rob R
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[Mol_PMB]

Excellent post, thank you! I look forward to the next installments once you have worked them out.