The
Dockyard Railway, Chatham
Wagons
The majority of the wagon fleet are of wooden construction and of pre-grouping origin but precise information on each wagon is not available, due to the builders plates having being removed in the past.
It is hoped that over time it will be possible to restore the wagons in order to recreate train formations from days gone by, with the idea of three different train formations being created to represent the following scenes:
[1] Internal user set.
[2] First World War era.
[3] Second World War era.
A programme of wagon restoration is ongoing.
Individual Wagons
The wagon fleet consists of the following individual vehicles:
[1] London North Eastern Railway 10-ton box van which is still running on its original axleboxes.
[2] London North Western Railway 10-ton box van, which is running on London Midland & Scottish Railway axleboxes.
[3] London Brighton & South Coast Railway 10-ton box van, running on Southern Railway axleboxes.
[4] Fife Coal Company 5-plank open wagon.
[5] Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway 3-plank open wagon, running on Great Central Railway axleboxes.
[6] Great Northern Railway 4-plank open wagon still running on its original axleboxes.
[7] Midland Railway, 4-plank open wagon still running on its original axleboxes.
[8] A pair of London Midland & Scottish Railway match-trucks still running on original axleboxes.
[9] A
Great Western Railway bogie well wagon, still running on its original axleboxes.
These wagons
were built to special specifications for the Admiralty for use as
mobile gun batteries.
During the
First World War, this wagon was fitted with a 6-inch naval gun, but
unfortunately after they had fired the gun a few times it had a
tendency to bend the track!
During the Second World War this wagon was fitted with an anti-aircraft gun.
After the war the gun was removed and the wagon was used to move heavy loads around the dockyard.
[10 & 11]
2 four-wheeled Admiralty tank wagons.
Built by
Metropolitan Cammel Carriage & Wagon Co. Ltd. at their Midland
Works in Birmingham in 1939. These were used to convey lubricating
oil between oil refineries and the different Admiralty installations.
[12]
Small 8-ton box van, of which no details of its origin are available.
It has been an
internal-use only wagon at the dockyard for some considerable time.
It is running
on axleboxes marked Stapleford & Co. Coalville, near Leicester,
dated 1896.
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