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Although the Bennett Brook Railway has never been a carrier of
paying freight, some wagons have been aquired by the organisation from the WAGR
and re-gauged from 3ft 6inch to the BBR's 2ft gauge to provide an amount of
variation in rollingstock and to enable the membership to occasionally play
trains.
Some of the freight wagons however, are quite often used for
what they were originally designed to do. For example : it is possible to couple
and pipe through, the J class water tank to our NG steam locomotives to provide
extra water supplies for busy operating days. Our QBB bogie flat wagon has been
used many times to carry all sorts of items such as Signals and Sleepers to
locations along the railway.
More items will be added time permitting.
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Ex WAGR D class
#33
After
withdrawal from active service by Westrail, this van was used as a
grounded body for explosives storage at Midland Workshops for many years
before being aquired by BBR. A chassis from an LA ballast wagon was
modified to 610mm gauge and the body restored and installed on it. The van
has been painted in standard WAGR livery on one side and has a recreation
of an advertising van livery from the 1950’s on the other. The original
WAGR advertising vans were DA and V vans. The D is visually very similar
to a DA
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Ex WAGR QBB 2889
Originally built
as an "R" wagon for WAGR in 1897 and converted to Q class in
1955, then
to QBB in 1963. It was written off by Westrail in 1990 before finding a
home at BBR where it had bogies converted to 610mm
gauge. It
is often used to carry the many heavy and often large loads about
the railway. On BBR It has carried track, new points, sleepers, assorted
steel & timber, tractors, large fallen tree trunks, coal boxes, tank
stands, structural items, small buildings, bogies and many more unusual
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Ex WAGR LA class #23778
Standard
Westrail 4 wheel ballast hopper converted to 610mm gauge. The axles have
been moved towards the ends of the vehicle to allow clearance for the
narrow gauged wheel sets under the hopper. Delivered to the BBR on
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Ex WAGR JOA class #12051 Distillate Fuel Tank
WAGR
4 wheel fuel tanker. Painted in Shell livery as purchase of this
wagon was funded by sale of the tanks off two bogie fuel tankers that were
donated by Shell that would have been too big for BBR’s loading gauge.
Re-gauged
to 610mm during
1990 by moving the axleboxes and springs inwards and installing
shorter axles
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Ex WAGR J class #11374 1600 gal Water Tank
Standard
WAGR 4 wheel water tanker. Used as auxiliary water tanks for steam locos
and for water supplies to stations and depots with no adequate supply.
Equipped with end outlets for connection to loco tender water tanks.
Re-gauged to 610mm during 1992 by moving the axleboxes and springs inwards and
installing shorter axles.
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R 3644 is a ex WAGR 2 door R Open Goods Wagon.
It has been fitted with Bus seats for passenger seating and has had the
"Drop" side doors modified for access. Entered service
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Ex WAGR V class #3326 Goods Van |
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Z63 Brake Van
Typical of many
WAGR brake or guards vans, this vehicle is a replica built from a V van.
(V3263). This was done as a standard Z van would be too wide to fit within
BBR’s 610mm stock outline, whereas the narrower V van does. V3263 ended
its days with Westrail as VW3263, a workmans van |
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