Grounded wagons at Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway

Does anyone know the identities of the two grounded wagons that form the station "buildings" at Furnace Sidings and Whistle Inn Halt?

The red/cream one at Furnace looks a bit like a fish van body, whilst the bauxite one at Whistle Inn looks like a pre-nationalisation design.

I can post pictures if this will help.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Neither of these wagons are detailed on the P&BR's excellent website

 

Photos attached. May help jog someone's memory...

 

The red and cream one is a bog standard BR 12 ton van body. The other one I'm not 100% on without consulting the scriptures, definitely fairly modern though with those ply wood sides - don't think it's a fish van though with those ventilators.

 

Is there anyone on this forum who volunteers at the Pontypool & Blaenavon, who could help identify the vehicle numbers?

There was also another unidentified 12t Vanfit type-body which was sat on top of a Conflat wagon.

thanks

 

The plywood van with twin end vents is a late GWR design. Quite a few of these were also built by BR after nationalisation to several different Diagram nos eg 1/203 and 1/205 with nos around B753xxx. There were also some quite similar Shock Vans in this style.

The red and cream van with no end vents is almost certainly a BR Banana Van, probably Diagram 1/246 built around 1959 or 1960 and numbered B882xxx

David

 

I'd agree with that. The GWR V36 and V39 Van fits, allong with the V37 and V38 vans were simular to the plywood one, all with plywood sides and with a mix of plywood or planked ends, and the Wriggly tin van could be one of any number of BR standerd diagrams.

 

Thanks for all the replies. I have heard that the red/cream van is no longer on the platform... Can anyone confirm this please?

 

the van body is still there and will be present for at least this year until we start on the station building

I think you're referring to the old metal ticket office which was "reallocated" at the start of last year

http://www.aligrieve.fotopic.net/p32301110.html

having done a spell as the jail

http://www.aligrieve.fotopic.net/p51989434.html

it's now a barbecue pit