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The Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust - Washford Rolling Stock List

LOH - length over headstocks
WB - wheelbase

Motive Power
	The Trust's SDJR 7F 2-8-0 No. 88
	Ruston & Hornsby 0-4-0 diesel-mechanical locomotive. Painted orange, this little diesel was built in 1942 for Cadbury's. It later moved to Bath Gas works. In full working order, it is used for shunting. Pic © Chris Nevard
	Peckett 0-4-0ST Kilmersdon. Built 1929, this was the last steam locomotive to work the Somerset Coalfield. This locomotive is regularly steamed up to shunt the trucks in the yard. Pic © Paul Guppy
Crane
	Stothert & Pitt Steam Crane No. 312. Built in about 1908 and still working well, this crane can lift up to 10 ton and is self-propelled. The crane spent its working life at the makers in Bath, adjacent to the S & D line. Pic © Gerry Leyman
Carriages
	S & D Third class 5-compartment 6-wheel carriage No 114. Built Highbridge 1890, retired by the SR (as 1423) in 1930 and converted to form a bungalow in Sussex (with No 98 under the tarpaulin at the end of the sidings; not on display). Recovered by the Trust in 1996. Pic © Neil Pankhurst
	S & D First class 4-compartment 6-wheel carriage No 4. Built Highbridge 1886, taken out of use 1930, and converted for use as a cricket pavillion at Templecombe. Rescued by the Trust in 1986, it is in its eighteenth year of painstaking restoration. Pic © Neil Pankhurst
S&DJR six wheeled third No.98, built by Cravens in 1894, is virtually identical to coaches built at Highbridge and very similar to many built for the Midland Railway around that time. It has carried a blue livery throughout its life and was last repainted in 1928. Around 1930 the Southern railway took it over. They re-lettered it SR, and re-numbered it 1419,over the original markings, but left it in blue livery. It is thought to have run in SR set No. 705. When No. 1419 was withdrawn from use in August 1939, its body was retained and sold. Together with Highbridge-built No.114 (SR No.1423) it became part of a bungalow at Aldingbourne, near Chichester. An overhanging roof covered both bodies, and asbestos sheets gave some protection to the sides , allowing the livery to survive. The Trust learned about these bodies in 1991 . By 1993 the owner had built a new dwelling on the same plot , and allowed Trust volunteers to demolish the roof and remove the coach bodies. No. 98's interior had been much altered and many parts were missing but when it arrived at Washford the body carried the best preserved example of the 1920's style of S&DJR blue livery. In 1994, parts of this were cleaned and conserved with resin or varnish. The most superficial layers may have been weathered or rubbed away , so there is still doubt about its appearance when new. Some of the interior panels carry pencilled inscriptions by Highbridge carriage shop staff, who went on to serve in the forces in the First World War. After some time in the 1990's on a temporary short underframe, the body now sits on an ex-LMS six wheeled fish van underframe (built 1947 to 49). It hides from the weather under a tarpaulin , waiting to be better appreciated. Words, Dr. Peter Trenchard Pic © Graham Bendell
Brakevan
	London & South-Western Brakevan (Road Van) (12424) At present in SR livery numbered 54885. Built ca. 1902, rebuilt late 1990s by SDRT volunteers. Pic © John Cannon
Vans
	London & South-Western Ventilated Van The brown van (42106) with the sliding doors intact is from 1901. Mansell wheels (steel & wood construction). Pic © John Cannon
Image awaited	London & South-Western Ventilated Van RNAD 304, given number 51171 LOH 18ft WB 11ft LSWR mixed Panter and Shepherd axleboxes, Mansell wheels, long springs, LSWR plain buffer casings. 1898 wheelsets.
Image awaited	Southern Railway - style Parcels & Miscellaneous Van S1633S.
Image awaited	London Midland & Scottish Van 37103 CCTBuilt by Metro-Cammell in 1938 under Lot No. 1154, and known by the LMS as a Covered Motor Car Van.
	British Railways Fruit D (W3450W) Built to a GWR design (Y14 diagram) in 1955. Condemned in 1976 at Reading, purchased privately, then transferred to the SDRT. Pic © John Cannon
	Southern Railway Box Van S48949 built to a standard pattern between 1935 and 1949. Pic © John Cannon
Image awaited	GWR 8 ton van 11451 ca. 1905. WB 9ft LOH 16ft, height 11ft. GWR diagram V12
	London Midland & Scottish 12 ton Steel Van (LMS 179162). ca. 1930. Pic © John Cannon
	Shell/BP Tank Wagon Built in 1902 as No. 231. WB 10ft, wooden headstocks, to carry 20 ton. Pic © John Cannon
Image awaited	BR(S) 12 Ton Box Van No B752355 The first vehicle to arrive on the WSR. Now in use as a stores van by Locomotive 5542 Ltd.
	London & North Western Railway Covered Van Acquired from the RNAD Gosport in 1993 as No. 335.
	Military Van RNAD 229 SWR affiliations wheelset marked "LSWR Co 1886". LOH 15ft 4in WB 9ft 2in. Mixed axleboxes, all LSWR: one Shepherd's dated 1927, another Warner's Box B 9in x 4in. Pic © John Cannon
Image awaited	LNWR CCT body Now a visitor centre.
Open & Flat Wagons
	LMS D1671 Some 31,000 of these wagons were built by the LMS at Earlestown and Derby, and for the LMS by private builders, between 1924 and 1940. They were very similar to the RCH 1923 Standard 12 ton mineral wagon design. As well as the LMS, the LNER also adopted the design as the standard mineral wagon - number built unknown, but at least 6,000. In addition, an estimated 234,000 of the RCH 1923 Standard design were built by the trade for private owners between 1923 and 1940. Click here for more info. Pic © Chris Nevard
	NE 10 ton 424023 (RNAD 184) LOH 15ft 10in WB 9ft 4in. LMS and LNEC 8x4 axleboxes. Self contained buffers. Pic © John Cannon
	NE 13 ton 145741 (RNAD 194) LOH 19ft 4-plank WB 10ft LNE-N and GNR axleboxes. Buffer casings LNE. Pic © John Cannon
Image awaited	RNAD 108 flat wagon 5ft 1in LOH. Fox patent pressed steel underframe. LSWR plain round buffer castings. Four LSWR Panter axleboxes. Wrought-iron open-spoke cast into hubs "Patent Shaft & Axletree Co 1877" . Panter's cross-lever brakes on double V-hanger both sides. Superstructure rebuilt with evidence of former uprights and fittings fixed to frame in positions consistent with an open wagon or drop-side ballast of 1893-7.
	AD 119 Open 4-plank LOH 15ft 5in WB 9ft 2in. Three SR(E) and one SR(B) No 7 axleboxes. Ironwork consistent with LBSCR. Pic © John Cannon
	LMS Open 4 Plank P61045 Ex-Port of Bristol Authority wagon built by the LMS in 1932. 5-planks; steel frame; full height door. Currently masquerades as S C Ruffey's wagon based at Sodor. Pic © George Moon
	Narrow gauge track, locomotive & stock From the Ashcott Peat Works Railway, which crossed the S & D on the level. Pic © Andrew Marsh

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