FR Wooden Bolster Waggons.

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(52°59′46″N, 3°56′41″W)

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1754

Title

FR Wooden Bolster Waggons.

Date

24/05/1947

Wooden Bolster Waggons in the ex-LNWR Transhipment Yard, Blaenau Ffestiniog, 24 May 1947. No. 76/78. and ??.

The larger waggons in the background are Feldbahn granite bogies. These were ex-German Military vehicles purchased for Brookes granite traffic. Note that whilst of similar overall construction, each waggon is mounted on different pattern bogies. Those under the vehicle on the right look like the most common Feldbahn type, whilst those fitted under the waggon to the left are probably the bogies that survived into preservation in use under ex-RAF Lichfield Bocoal No. 68. These are noticeably lower, and are fitted with dual coil spring suspension. The larger bogies only have a single coil spring, although overall they do appear to be of more robust construction, the suspension acting within simple horn guides, allowing the axle boxes vertical movements between them. One of these bogies, or one from a similar waggon, was used for the construction of Moelwyn's front pony truck. Both waggons have hand-braked bogies on their bottom ends.

On the wharves in the background are a large number of slate waggons, many being the iron 2-ton LNWR built type, which unlike the FR waggons in foreground, would still have been in use to transport slate on the Pen y Bont branch line from Glan y Don. The incline and quarrymen's zig zags up to Oakeley Gloddfa Ganol are prominent on the skyline. Capel Rhiw can also be seen amongst the houses on Glan y Pwll Road.

Source. LGRP 2406

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