Chaldron Wagon Throckley Colliery - Pack N Livery_Regional RailwaysThree wagon multi pack, NER 4T Chaldron Pack N: The Throckley Coal Company Formed in 1867, the Throckley Coal Company owned a number of pits to the west of Newcastle, on the north bank of the River Tyne, and were linked to Staiths situated at Leamington by two separate railway branches. Throckleys fleet of Chaldrons were in use right up to 1947, when they were scrapped by burning, and the company was one of the few that fitted their ex NER P1
Pack of three wagons with container loads
Club coach 15107
Containing ONE wagon
Standard sleeper coach 15310
MDWs remained in service until 1992
and was recorded in this livery variation - still with D-prefixed number - in the second half of 1969
1 mm polypropylene-composite inverted dome driver
SK and SO (declassified from first class)
Smokebox and chimney correctly represents as-built GWR condition or post-1952 BR redraughting
Happily it was acquired for preservation in 2007 by the Dean Forest Diesel Association and soon put back into service
BR J69 68535 was from the same 1892 batch as No
Used to supply coal for the boilers at Stargate and Emma