Night Soil Workings

[Cuddie Headrigg]

Sorry Bryan, it was a typo Mac spellchecker has a mind of it's own - unlike me. It was night soil, not spoil. My aquaintance explained the workings of these trains as it was a total unknown to me.

[Rlangham]

No LNER link that I can think of, but at the Talyllyn Railway there's a certain type of four wheel, iron bodied wagon, with one end about twice as high at the other end - this is the Incline Wagon. These were used on the incline from the Talyllyn Railway down to the village of Abergynolwyn (one of a number of inclines on the railway, the others were used for slate wagons going up to/down from Bryn Eglwys Quarry), the high end being at the downward end of the wagon to stop anything falling out - one of its cargoes being the night soil from the houses of Abergynolwyn