The LNER Encyclopedia

Hello,

I refer to this image (which I cannot show due to Getty copyright):
https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/n ... o/90775351

My modelling includes some scratch-bashed-built GNR wagons in OO.
To add to my list I am intrigued by the wagon second from the right in the image.
With inset walling, stable door, outside single braces and two end posts I cannot find a wagon to fit that description.
It might be a fish or meat wagon with venting on the upper walls where the image shows the space.
My only image of a GNR fish wagon is from 1899 and shows a clerestory roof, cross-bracing and four end posts.
The wagon may also be a foreigner being repaired by the GNR.

My analysis of the image suggests this may be a repair line-up rather than a new build.
Mainly because of the state of the left side cattle and faded paintwork on the opens.

Kimball

It's an 8 ton coke wagon. A photograph of one in LNER condition appears on p36 of LNER Wagons Vol 1 (Tatlow, 2005).

D

Thank you Darryl.
My library has somehow managed without the Tatlow books but that needs to be corrected.

Kimball