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C&W - Stock Lists: Carriages & Wagons - C&W News - SR Coach Group - Goods Division - Operation Undercover - Technical - Join us Goods Division: Home - Shop - Projects - Instagram - Flickr - Facebook - Donate BR 12 Ton PALVAN B761349This wagon is no longer on the Bluebell RailwayThis is a representative of one of BR's first efforts to respond to changing methods of handling. Built at BR's Faverdale Works, Darlington to diagram 1/211 this van is one of 36 built under Lot 2538 in 1954. With a steel floor and offset side doors this van was designed to carry palletised loads and to be loaded by fork lift truck from both sides. Unfortunately this often led to vans running with loads at one end only, resulting in rough riding and, subsequently, derailment. Return to BRPS Home Page, to the Timetable or to Special Events Carriages & Wagons - Intro - Development - Stock Lists: Carriages & Wagons - Carriage Fleet Review - Join us C&W Works News - SR Coach Group - Goods Division - Operation Undercover - Carriage Shop - Technical Pages Goods Division: Home - Shop - Projects - Instagram - Flickr - Facebook - Donate Visitor Info. - Museum - Trust - Catering - Contacts - What's New - Projects - Locos - Carriages & Wagons - Signals - History - Other - Links - Search - FAQ Why not become a BRPS Member? - Get more involved as a Volunteer Text © Martin Skrzetuszewski, acknowledging the work of the late Handel Kardas. Photo © Martin Skrzetuszewski. Page created by Nick Beck, 12 August 2006 and updated by Jon Elphick, 24 February 2010 and Richard Salmon, 14 July 2022 © Copyright BRPS. Privacy Policy |