Paul Bartlett's Photographs: Recently Added Galleries and Collections

LNER Dolphin rail, ballast and sleeper wagon YAO

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:58:20 GMT

]]>The LNER appears to have been the first railway Company to introduce a multi-purpose engineers wagon capable of carrying 60ft. rails, ballast and sleepers. They were 64ft. 6in over headstocks with 5ft. 6in, wheelbase bogies at 46ft centres. The underframing had several styles and BR converted some to have the ends partly or completely cut down, all sides removed etc as well as to the Morris tracklaying train.

Britain's railway wagons

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:58:19 GMT

]]>PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS. IT IS WERE ALL PHOTOGRAPHS RESIDE, INSTEAD USE THE SORTED COLLECTIONS.
Railway wagons operating in Great Britain, many owned by British Railways (BR) and others by private and nationalised companies.

LNER Brake vans; GER, NER

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:57:06 GMT

]]>Some early pre-group designs and the main LNER designs, the final one leading to the standard BR van design.

Overhead line maintenance & S&T cable wagons and coaches etc.

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:30:41 GMT

]]>A varied selection of photographs of maintenance and construction of overhead line electrification and the rolling stock converted for this maintenance. This includes many ex LMS and LNER coaches, and the later conversions of BR Mark 1 coaches to this use. It also includes cable drum wagons from ex GWR Open C.

Staines Central SR, road trailers & wagons

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:24:44 GMT

]]>A few photographs around Staines Central including road vehicle trailers, Maunsell coach as office, goods shed, signals, BRCW type 3.
I have added some of the photographs of wagons in the yards - quite an interesting variety - some of my earliest photographs.Bob Essery had written about going to your local yard and studying the wagons, so I did.
Staines had 3 different freight yards. On the north side of the approach from London was a mileage yard - see the Rectanks. (Converted to carriage sidings in 1974) Connected to it by its own line beneath the bridge and behind the up platform was the large wood goods shed and coach as an office. On the down side and inside the curve towards Ascot was the larger open yard, in the 1960s largely used for steel and containers. No coal traffic in my days, this was handled at Ashford, the next station down the line.

BR 4 wheel Trestle AA Diag 2/492

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:18:58 GMT

]]>British Railways built 16 4 wheel Trestles for carrying large plates of steel. Introduced in 1958 they were similar to earlier wagons converted from Plate wagons. They were vacuum braked with clasp brakes.
NOTE – These photographs are low quality scans and may not print well. Do not order larger prints.

Forth Ports Authority Grangemouth Docks

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:16:34 GMT

]]>Grangemouth harbour and docks consists of an Eastern Channel, Western Channel, Grange Dock and Carron Dock, in addition to oil depots at the north-east end. Numerous warehouses are situated throughout area.

09XXXX ScR internal user series

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:16:33 GMT

]]>The Internal use wagons numbered in the series from 09thousand, introduced by the Scottish Region.

LNER Open Merchandise wagons - wooden bodied OWV ZGV KSV ZGO ZRV

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:16:33 GMT

]]>The LNER number series had a selection of different designs of wooden open merchandise, and were built either vacuum brake or unbraked - which BR usually converted to VB in the later 1950s. Several internal user. Includes LOWFITs and bogie BRICK.

BR Internal user ex revenue wagons

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:16:33 GMT

]]>A collection of the numerous wagons which were condemned from revenue use and transferred to work within one location. In addition to BR sites - workshops etc. BR provide internal use wagons at many docks, some steelworks etc. Each region had its own number series, and a few date from earlier series used by the pre-nationalisation Companies.

Tony Dyer Collection

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:58:45 GMT

]]>Photographs by Tony Dyer whom, with John Senior, in the early 1970s formed the model kit manufacturers Mopok and Kemilway (with George Allen). They are all now my copyright

BR livestock rolling stock - cattle, special cattle, horse

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:58:06 GMT

]]>BR stopped carrying livestock in 1972. However, during the 1950s it had built a considerable fleet of cattle wagons and horse boxes just a few of which are illustrated here. Includes some converted for the Dunkirk ferry.

RECENTLY ADDED RAILWAY

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:57:32 GMT

]]>Simply a collection in the order in which new scans are added to the site, so newest are first and therefore in reverse order. I will keep it at 500-600 images. The images are also in named collections, in more logical orders.

BR period Inspection Saloons - mixed origins

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:12:45 GMT

]]>A collection of various inspection saloons used by the engineers - some for Civil engineers and others for Tunnel inspection etc. Includes BR, LMS, LNER, SR and GWR. NOTE these are low quality scans and will not print well at larger formats.
More recent inspection train rolling stock in https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/departmentalcoachprivate
and https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/departmental977500
https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/nmrtrain
https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/nrultrasonic
https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/nrohltrain

GWR Departmental coaches, Pilot vans, Cranes, DW150xxx etc

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:12:45 GMT

]]>Mostly ex GWR coaches in the DW150xxx series, but includes some small cranes, other coaches etc.
The low numbers were the GWR Pilot van series.

Western series DW

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:12:45 GMT

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LMS Departmental coaches

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:11:52 GMT

]]>A collection of some of the many different coaches converted by the LMS and later BR and BR(M) and numbered into a variety of series used for this stock.

LNER Departmental coaches and others

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:10:25 GMT

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Eastern series DE

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:10:25 GMT

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BR series DB Coaches and other stock transferred to engineers

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:10:04 GMT

]]>The Engineers built a considerable fleet of vehicles, mostly using redundant coaching stock, but also some freight vehicles. They had number series starting at 975xxx and 977xx with other series in 965xxx and 999xxx

York Wagon repair works Demolished by 22 May 2021 & York Central Redevelopment

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:08:12 GMT

]]>The North Eastern Railway Wagon works at York is now closed, The development of York Central will see it removed with the rail access destroyed during April 2021 and destruction of the main building starting 2nd week of May concluded by 22 May 2021.
The final user was Freightliner, who installed a new locomotive fuelling point earlier in 2012 and stored many redundant bogie hopper wagons there until April.
Jarvis had operated the works during the mid 2000s. The works is easily viewed from the footbridge across the freight avoiding lines on Cinder Lane. The smaller building in the foreground was destroyed during 2012.
Now to see the redevelopment of 'York Central'.

04XXXX ER internal user series

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:08:12 GMT

]]>The Internal use wagons numbered in the series from 04thousand, introduced by the Eastern Region,
045000 to 048999 were allocated to Grimsby and Immingham
Docks

Midland series DM

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:08:12 GMT

]]>A collection of M prefixed departmental coaches, mostly converdions from ex LMS and their pre-grouping constituent companies. There is a list of many of the departmental coaches at http://lmsca.org.uk/lms-coaches/br-departmental-coach-list/ There are other Ex LMS coaches in departmental use in the DS and DB series.

LMS Milk tank wagons

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:06:18 GMT

]]>The LMS had a large fleet of Milk tank wagons. Unlike other Companies they had two different sizes, for 2000 and 3000 gallons. In the 1960s many of the smaller ones were painted in an attractive livery for St. Ivel. As milk tank wagons were considered to be non passenger coaching stock they were allocated to regions, so a number are shown with a W prefix because of relocation to the Western Region.

Milk tank wagons BR, GWR, LNER, SR, LMS, MMB

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:06:18 GMT

]]>Milk carrying tank wagons used on British Railways in the 1970s and 1980s. BR, GWR, LNER, SR, LMS, and more recently MMB. Chassis used for roll on roll off milk trailers are included. Milk wagons were unusual as the barrels were owned by the milk companies and the frames by the railway companies. This collection includes all of the milk wagon photographs on the site. For a history of milk tank traffic see Milk on the Rails by M. Pinto pub Wild Swan 2024

06XXXX WR internal user series

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:57:05 GMT

]]>The Internal use wagons numbered in the series from 06thousand, introduced by the Western Region.
Grimsby Docks had some from 060025-062569, 062680-062749, 062770-063389

SR Milk tank wagons

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:55:48 GMT

]]>Despite serving the large dairy areas of south west England the SR had a relatively small fleet of milk carrying tank wagons. They were distinctive because they had unusually large auxilliary suspension. The St. Ivel vinyl was only applied after purchase for preservation.

BR DB975400 - 499 series

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:53:13 GMT

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GWR & BR Milk tank wagons

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:47:47 GMT

]]>Milk tank wagons on British Railways built by the Great Western Railway or to their design. A selection of photographs which includes some as later used by railway engineers.
Building details are largely taken from Jack Slinn's article in the HMRS Journal vol 12 part 3 1985 pages 87 - 92.

North Yorkshire Moors Railway NYMR

(Paul Bartlett's Photographs) — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:14:09 GMT

]]>The Heritage Railway runs from Pickering through Goathland and Grosmont to access Whitby on Network Rail line. Visited occasionally from August 1973.