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Midland Record No.2 Supplement Midland Railway Wagons by R.J. Essery
Midland Record No.2 Supplement Midland Railway Wagons by R.J. Essery
Soft cover
Copyright Wild Swan Publications Ltd. And R.J. Essery 1998
48 pages
CONTENTS
D298 LONG CATTLE WAGON3
D336 & D336A LONG LOWSIDE WAGONS ..7
D818 10 TON LOWSIDE WAGON ..11
D395 REFRIGERATOR MEAT VAN13
D361 COVERED GOODS WAGON & D364 COVERED GOODS WAGON & FRUIT VAN..17
D349 20 TON COAL WAGON WITH STEEL BODY ..23
D302 10 TON HIGH-SIDED WAGON & D663A 10 & 12 TON MERCHANDISE WAGON27
D204 12 TON WAGON FOR LOCO COAL35
D341 TWIN BOILER TRUCK39
D368 COVERED VAN FOR CARRYING MOTOR CAR VANS ..41
D1658 20 TON GOODS BRAKE VAN ..42
INDEX OF MIDLAND WAGON STOCK ..46
Introduction
Although this supplement is devoted solely to freight stock, it marks the beginning of an in-depth study of the company's rolling stock which will encompass both carriages and wagons, building upon previously published information.
By way of introduction, it may be worth recording that my interest in wagons extends over a fifty-year period. As a young fireman, I would frequently find myself on a locomotive in the sidings at Washwood Heath or Lawley Street, and, instead of joining my driver in a nearby shunters cabin to indulge in idle chatter, play dominos and drink tea, I would carefully examine the wagons close to my engine, looking at features such as the builder's plates and the register and repair plates. It was not unusual at the time, c.1950, to see examples of ex-private owner wagons which had entered service in the closing years of the last century. My recollection of Midland Railway wagons, recognisable by their distinctive wagon plates, was that they were not uncommon, the most frequently observed probably being low goods wagons to a type I was later to know as D305.
In 1958 I started to make models of goods wagons and a few years later I was invited by Cyril Freezer, then editor of the Railway Modeller, to write a series of articles about scratchbuilding wagons, the first being published in January 1963. Shortly after my first articles appeared in print, the LMS Society was formed and this brought me into contact with the late W. 0. ('Bill') Steel who was, and indeed still is, a great influence upon me. Together we studied the overall subject of British goods wagons and, following his untimely death in 1969, at the invitation of his widow, I took over our joint research records.
It was the late Jim Russell who suggested that I put together An Illustrated History of Midland Wagons and he was instrumental in. introducing me to Colin Judge of OPC. In 1980 my first solo two-volume work was published and for years I believed that would be as far as I could go in recording the history of the Midland Railway's freight rolling stock, but I was mistaken.
Some years ago I came across more than one collection of carriage and wagon drawings, and whilst some have already been used in Midland Record, the number now available is immense. Recent finds at the NRM and Public Record Office have suggested that a supplement to Midland Wagons would not be out of place; the question was, how should it be structured?
I am uncertain how many copies of Midland Wagons were printed by OPC before the company was sold for the first time. I am told that copies are rarely found on the secondhand market. For my part, I am generally satisfied with the content, but I do have a considerable amount of supplementary information which has become available since. Therefore, in consultation with the publishers of Midland Record, it was decided that the structure for this supplement should take the line of providing additional information so that this and any further supplements
will truly complement the original Midland Railway volumes which, by good fortune, are about to be reprinted by Ian Allan who now own the OPC imprint. At the same time, these supplements are intended to stand alone in their own right. They are, of course, complementary to the entire Midland Record programme, which, for those readers who may not be familiar with it, is to record the story of every aspect of the company's activity, from inception, through grouping into nationalisation.
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