View allAll Photos Tagged 2002
12 Ton Shocvan B850498 standing in the yard at Quorn, Great Central Railway, 12th February 2020.
Wagon History
In 1950 Ashford Works built a batch of five hundred shock absorbing vans to a design that had a Great Western Railway appearance, although the design was produced at Eastleigh. These vehicles were allocated diagram 1/207. The Great Central Railway acquired the body of one of the vehicles (B850498) which had been in use as a grounded store at Swithland Sand and Gravel. In 2018 this body was restored and mounted on a London Midland and Scottish Railway tank wagon chassis (162588) acquired from the Foxfield Railway in 2017 and the completed hybrid wagon is now part of the operational fleet.
Deltic D9016 Gordon Highlander approaches Irwell Vale station on the East Lancashire Railway in its Porterbrook livery.
(Scanned Slide)
These kids liked me a lot and I saw them everyday in the square. They were so cute. I love the way Tibetans look. They were selling things and I would usually make my dad buy stuff from them. The same thing happened in Nepal. I would see girls my age selling things and it just didn't seem right-I had enough money to travel all the way to Asia and they were on the street trying to sell little jars of Tiger Balm. I would usually talk to them even though they didn't speak English or just try to smile at them and then they would walk with me a bit, a mutual interest in each others lives.