Coaches of the GER. The GER was slow to convert its rolling stock to bogie vehicles. Right up to the end of the GER's independent existence there were still many 6-wheeled non-corridor coaches in use on mainline trains. The suburban trains used 4-wheel coaches for much longer than most other contemporary companies.

The new set incorporated a 50ft bogie restaurant car flanked by first and third class compartment 6 wheel coaches with lavatory accommodation and corridor gangways to the restaurant. All three carriages had clerestory roofs, an expensive feature which was apparently now being employed to distinguish the best that Stratford could provide from ...

2023年11月23日 · Media in category "Great Eastern Railway coaches" The following 43 files are in this category, out of 43 total. ... GER coach number 553 east anglian railway museum.jpg 1,280 × 960; 148 KB. GER Third 1380 2019.jpg 4,160 × 3,120; 3.71 MB. GER Third 1380.jpg 591 × …

The GER's Definition of a Carriage. For the purpose of the half yearly returns of working stock the ECR, and later the GER, divided its rolling stock into three categories - coaching, merchandise and mineral and ballast.

The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.

LNER teak coaches and livery. A collection of colour slides that I have restored to show what teak coaches actually looked like in LNER days. The sequence is: 1 - Gangwayed (from pre-Grouping days, some of which served deep into BR days, through LNER and BR days.) 2 - Secondary 3 - White roofs 4 - Details and fittings 5 - Non-passenger coaching ...

They are former Great Eastern four-wheeled wooden-bodied coaches and between them provide for first and third class passengers as well as a guard. Both coaches are very similar to those originally used by the MSLR – in fact No. 12 is the sister vehicle to …

Coach roofs were white or various shades of grey, throughout the GER's existence. Grey dominated after 1918. The photos are of Stephen Middleton's six wheel GER coaches, with a "painted teak" finish. No. 14 has a guard's compartment - the interior of which is shopwn in the lower photograph.

2018年2月20日 · These are Holden type 5 coaches, built in the 1886-1896 period (the types are these defined by John Watling in a series of excellent articles available on the GERS website: https://www.gersociety.org.uk/index.php/rolling-stock/carriages/types-5-8). Holden Type 5s were built to standardised lengths.

2018年10月22日 · NORFOLK has always been known as fertile ground for discovering grounded pre-Grouping wooden coach bodies, with many examples still surviving on farms and in a variety of other locations. Further coaches are regularly being discovered, but a surprising twist is that no less than four GER coach bodies have arrived at one of the county’s ...