Datasheets

Early Goods Wagons Catalogue

The following Collection of Early Goods Wagon Drawings are currently available. All are printed at 1:43.5 scale (O) on A3 sized sheets. The sheets are available individually or as a set which includes a ring binder, index & foreword, and several sheets showing the numbers of each type of vehicle that were running on the NSWR during the years 1855 - 1905 at 5 yearly intervals - see Availability. These sheets include drawings of the plan, elevations and sections of the subject, and information regarding the manufacturers and numbers given to the vehicles where this is known. To view a simplified thumbnail of each drawing click on the Sheet Number. Notes about these drawings appear at the end of the catalogue listing.
		Sheet	Date	Underframe	Vehicle numbers	Comments
	A Low Sided (flat) Wagons
		A-01	1855	timber	24 - 27	Lever operated brake on one wheel only.

	B High Sided Open Wagons
		B-01	1855	timber	na	Lever operated wood brake on one wheel only.

	C Covered Goods Vans
		C-01	1855	timber	1 - 6	Low height van with iron cladding and opening hatch in the roof, no brakes.
		C-02	1855	timber	na	As above without the roof hatch, Lever operated wood brake on one wheel only.
		C-03	1879	timber	na	Lever operated wood brakes on two wheels.
		C-05	1887	timber	na	As 1879 design, with diag bracing. Outside iron brakes operating on all 4 wheelsare shown on GA. Photo shows lever operated iron brakes to two wheels..

	CL Covered Louvred Goods Vans
		C-04	1885	timber	na	Lever operated iron brakes to two wheels..
		C-06	1891	iron	na	Outside iron brakes operating on all 4 wheels.

	PV Powder Vans
		C-07	1879	timber	na	Lever operated wood brakes on two wheels.
		C-08	1884	timber	na	Lever operated wood brakes on two wheels.

	TN Bogie Covered Vans
		T-01	1892	iron, tubular	na

	D Medium Sided Wagons
		D-01	1860	timber	na	Dropsided wagon with lever operated wood brakes on one wheel.
		D-02	1875	timber	na	Dropsided wagon with lever operated wood brakes on two wheels.
		D-03	1878	timber	na	Lever operated wood brakes on two wheels.
		D-04	-	timber	na	High sided and clasp brakes variations on the 1878 design.
		D-05	1886	timber	na	Lever operated iron brakes on two wheels.
		D-06	1888	timber	na	High sided (5 plank) wagons, outside (clasp) brakes operating on all 4 wheels.
		D-07	1890	iron	na	Medium sided (4 plank) wagons, outside (clasp) brakes operating on all 4 wheels.
		D-08	1891	timber	na	Rebuilt wagons with Westinghouse brakes
		D-09	1893	pressed steel	na	Medium sided (4 plank) wagons with Westinghouse brakes
		D-10	1898	timber	na	Medium sided (4 plank) wagons with Westinghouse brakes
		D-11	189?	iron truss composite	na	Medium sided (4 plank) wagons with Westinghouse brakes
		D-12	189?	timber	na	Dropsided wagons with Westinghouse brakes

	I Medium Sided Wagons - 'Browns' or 'Glassons'
		D-13	1888	iron truss composite	na	Medium sided (4 plank) wagons with lever operated wood brakes on two wheels, coil springs.

	L Medium Sided Wagons - 'Browns' or 'Glassons'
		D-14	1893	iron truss composite	na	Medium sided (4 plank) dropsided wagons with Westinghouse brakes, converted from I Wagons.

	Cane Wagons
		D-15	1880	iron truss composite	na	Flat wagons with Westinghouse brakes, converted from I Wagons.

	G Medium Sided Wagons - 6 wheel & bogie
		D-16	1880	timber	1 - 3	Medium sided (3 plank) wagons with 6 wheel Cleminson articulated u/frame
		D-17	1883	timber	1 - 194	Medium sided (3 plank) bogie wagons, new and converted from 1880 6 wheeled vehicles
		D-18	1887	timber	195 - 354	Medium sided (3 plank) bogie wagons with vertical h/brake wheels on end platforms

	BD Medium Sided Bogie Wagons
		D-19	1892	composite	na	Medium sided (3 plank) bogie wagons with Westinghouse brakes.

	TM Medium Sided Bogie Wagons
		T-02	1892	iron tubular	na

	F Flat Bolster Trucks
		E-01	1887	timber	na	Early (15')) wagons with wooden brake operating on one wheel, later (13'4") wagons with outside (clasp) iron brakes operating on all 4 wheels.

	F Flat Bolster Wagons - 6 wheel & bogie
		E-02	1880	timber	1 - 3	Flat wagons with 6 wheel Cleminson articulated u/frame
		E-03	1886	timber	4N - 11N	Bogie F wagons.
		E-04	1891	composite	na	Bogie 'Bolster Wagons'.
		E-05	1897	timber	na	Bogie F wagons.
		E-06	1897	timber	na	Bogie F wagons converted from 1887 G wagons.

	TF Flat Bolster Wagons
		T-03	1892	iron tubular	na

	CW Cattle Wagons
		CW-01	1862, 1869	timber	1 - 14 15 - 61	Lever operated wood brake on one wheel only.
		CW-02	1878	timber	62 - 131 24N - 32N 34N - 42N 44N - 53N	Lever operated wood brake on two wheels.
		CW-03	1879	timber	132 - 181 54N - 64N	Lever operated wooden brake on two wheels.
		CW-04	1881	timber	182 - 270 65N - 112N 271, 273 - 304 113N - 127N	Lever operated iron brake on two wheels.
		CW-05	1885	timber	128N - 137N	Lever operated iron brake on two wheels
		CW-08	1889	timber	442 - 541	Outside (clasp) brakes operating on all 4 wheels.
		CW-10	1885	timber	1 - 14	'Combination Truck'.

	BCW Bogie Cattle Wagons
		CW-06	1886	timber	305	'Burton' Cattle Car.
		CW-07	1887	timber	na
		CW-09	1895	timber	na	'

	SV Sheep Vans
		SV-01	1855, 1862	timber	1 2 - 7	1 - no diagonal bracing, no brakes 2 - 7 - diagonal bracing, lever operated brake on one wheel.
		SV-02	1871	timber	na	Lever operated wood brake on one wheel only.
		SV-03	1878	timber	na	'Lever operated wood brake on two wheels.
		SV-04	1885	timber	256 - 275	Lever operated iron brake on two wheels.
		SV-05	1887	timber	278 - 307 468 - 592	Outside (clasp) brakes operating on all 4 wheels.

	BSV Bogie Sheep Vans
		SV-06	1887	timber	277	''Humanity' sheep van.
		SV-07	1891	timber	8954
		SV-08	1887	timber	na

	MV Meat Vans
		MV-01	1858	timber	1 - 10	Lever operated wood brake on one wheel only
		MV-02	1883	timber	na	Lever operated iron brake on two wheels.
		MV-03	1896	timber	na	Outside (clasp) brakes operating on all 4 wheels.
		MV-04	1890	timber	1	Lever operated iron brake on two wheels. 'Dead Meat Van'.

	RB Refrigerated Vans
		MV-05	1881	timber	2	'Tiffany's Summer & Winter Car'.
		MV-06	1890	timber	9461, 9465 - 9472, 9475, 10701 - 10712
		MV-08	1891	timber	8970	'Howlin' Refrigerator Car.
		MV-09	1895	timber	na	Coding given as BRC.

	Coal Hopper
		CH-01	1890	iron	na

	Brake Vans
		BV-01	1855	timber	1 - 5	Assumed to be similar to passenger brake van shown in book by Colburn*..
		BV-02	1867	timber	na	Six wheeled van with roof lookout.
		BV-03	1886	timber	na	Six wheeled van with side ducket.
		BV-04	1890	iron	na	Bogie Brake Van.
		BV-05	1893	timber	na	Later classed CHG, no roof over end platforms.
		BV-06	1892	timber	na	Later classed CHG, end platforms roofed. 3'6" wheels.
		BV-07		timber	na	'Later classed CHG, end platforms roofed. 3'6" wheels.

	H Bogie Dump Wagons
		N-01	1883	timber	1 - 101	Vertical brake wheel on end of wagon.
		N-02	1885	timber	102 - 201	Vertical brake wheel on end platform.

	BW Ballast Wagons
		N-03	1884	timber	43, 44	Dropsides, brake systen shown may not have been fitted.
		N-04	1885	timber	45 - 192	Dropsides.
		N-05	1891	timber	na	'Rough Ballast Wagon' with dumb buffers, may not have been built.
		N-06	1891	timber	na	Hopper Ballast Wagon with dumb buffers.
		N-07		timber	na	Dropsides, converted from D wagons.

	Ballast Ploughs
		N-08	1890	timber	na	'Goods Brake Van with Ballast Plough'.

	WT Water Tank Wagons
		N-09	1882	timber	1 - 12	Half round tank.
		N-10	1884	timber	13 - 54	Rectangular tank on six wheeled underframe.

	WV Workmen's Vans
		N-11	1882	timber	5 - 22

	AV Accident Vans
		N-12	1882	timber	1 - 7	Six wheeled underframe.

	Accident Cranes
		N-13	1884	iron	1326, 1327, 1691 - 1693	Crane on six wheeled underframe, dimensions of tumbrels vary, as detailed on the drawing.

* Note - Reference to Zerah Colburn is a book published by him; ‘Locomotive Engineering and the Mechanism of Railways’ 1870. This collection of drawings was produced in 1991 - 92 from information then available to me. Since that time additional information and photographic evidence has been uncovered during research for a book on the subject of early goods rolling stock. This additional information will augment the information included on these drawings, and may uncover more accurate data. There is not a great deal of information extant regarding some early vehicles, and for a few only photographs exist. Generally these drawings have been prepared using the NSWR General Arrangement drawings, although it should be noted that General Arrangement drawings were usually prepared as tender documents and the actual construction of the vehicles by the contractors may have varied from these tender drawings, and the designs of the wagons have been cross referenced with photographs where possible. Reference has also been made to the NSWR vehicle diagrams, the existence of which generally indicates that the vehicle shown did operate on the railways.