Irish Broad Gauge Carriages - Desmond Coakham.

[Broithe]

This book was recently available for the princely sum of €3.

 

My copy has just reached me and I notice that the bottom picture on page 14 is captioned for TPO 160, but the picture is actually of the four-wheeled vent van No 764 - this picture is used again with the correct caption on page 64 - I was hoping that the picture had been inadvertently interchanged, but no such luck.

 

Is there an online image of TPO 160 anywhere?

[jhb171achill]

This book was recently available for the princely sum of €3.

 

My copy has just reached me and I notice that the bottom picture on page 14 is captioned for TPO 160, but the picture is actually of the four-wheeled vent van No 764 - this picture is used again with the correct caption on page 64 - I was hoping that the picture had been inadvertently interchanged, but no such luck.

 

Is there an online image of TPO 160 anywhere?

 

I had a look in the GSWR diagram book of 1923 which I have and there's no mention of a vehicle of that number at all, let alone a TPO! So the plot thickens; was this thing a conversion, and if so, when and why?

[Dhu Varren]

I know absolutely nothing about the GSWR, but my copy of this book has the vehicle in question as No 140, not 160.

[iarnrod]

G.S.& W.R. Carriage Register lists 140 as a Post Office Mail Van. 30' long. One compartment. Gas lighting. 6 wheeled with brakes on 4 of them. Built Jan 1894. Fitted with 2 gangways, 1 recovery net, 4 delivery arms and steam heating. Withdrawn 1957. 160 is listed as a Horse Box.

[jhb171achill]

That's a different kettle'o'fish! Yes, 140 existed.... as above.....

 

And yet, amongst horse boxes in the 1923 list, there's no 160 either! Inclusion in earlier or later lists must prove existence, of course, so one wonders where it was hiding in 1923....

[Broithe]

You're right, I was bamboozled by all the numbers, 140 it is.

[iarnrod]

160 was broken up at Limerick on 26/2/1916, so that's why it doesn't appear in the 1923 list.

[jhb171achill]

Brilliant stuff, iarnrod, thanks!

[iarnrod]

No problem Jonathan. Have spent many hours researching through the G.S.& W.R. Carriage Register and interesting stuff it is too.