Swindon Works was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1843 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It served as the principal west England maintenance centre...
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A carriage is a two- or four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for passengers. In Europe they were a common mode of transport for the wealthy during the Roman...
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independent companies, but in 1844 the railway started to build carriages at Swindon Works, which eventually provided most of the railway's stock. Special...
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The former Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Works is located in Caton Road, Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The works produced railway rolling stock and trams...
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Derby Litchurch Lane Works, formerly Derby Carriage and Wagon Works, is a railway rolling stock factory in Derby, England. It is presently owned by the...
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its Carriage department. Reid had already started to introduce more efficient carriage building practices at the Derby Carriage and Wagon Works of the...
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Train Service is with Network Rail. The carriage maintenance works consolidated its operations in the western end of the site. In July 2013, the then...
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List of British Rail TOPS depot codes (section List of TMD, Servicing Depot, SP and other non-works codes)
each locomotive allocated there. Later this was extended to cover each carriage of diesel multiple units (DMUs), and even some coaching stock; at this...
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of Hampshire in England. The London and South Western Railway (LSWR) opened a carriage and wagon works at Eastleigh in 1891. In 1903, the Chief Mechanical...
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Flavel House Museum (/flʌvɛl/) known also as Capt. George Flavel House and Carriage House or the Flavel Mansion, is now a house museum in Astoria, Oregon,...
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manufacturing of new rolling stock, such as the InterCity 125 trainset, the Mark 3 carriage, and the British Rail Class 58 freight locomotive. Both domestic and international...
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made by Flint Wagon Works. Durant's friend, Sam McLaughlin of Canada's McLaughlin Motor Car Company, offshoot of another major carriage manufacturer, was...
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Night Riviera (redirect from First Great Western Sleeper)
the Great Western Railway was introduced at the end of 1877 from London Paddington to Plymouth. This had 7 ft (2,134 mm) broad gauge carriages with two...
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Alstom Aventra (section South Western Railway)
Structurally, the Aventra is relatively lightweight, the body of each carriage having been redeveloped from the Electrostar. It comprises various welded...
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locomotive leaving the works. This record still stands. However a need to find extra capacity for carriage painting led to some 200 carriages per year being repainted...
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Metrovagonmash Kolomna Locomotive Works Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant Demikhovo Machinebuilding Plant Tver Carriage Works JSC ZMK (Saratov region, Engels)...
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Newton Abbot. Worcester Carriage Works was created by flattening land north of Worcester Shrub Hill Station, Reading Signal Works was established in buildings...
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name Western Toy Company. The factory burned down in 1866. In 1866 Western toy Works took over another factory which produced toy and baby carriages. The...
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Royal Arsenal (section The carriage works)
(when it was converted into a wheel factory for the adjacent Royal Carriage Works). Also in 1803, the Royal Military Artificers were provided with new...
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Henry Ivatt (section London and North Western Railway)
Ivatt was apprenticed to John Ramsbottom at the Crewe Works of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). He worked as a fireman for six months and...
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manufacture, with rolling stock work transferred to a new facility, Derby Carriage & Wagon Works. From its earliest days, it had carried out research and development...
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railway station. The original locomotive, carriage and wagon workshops were built by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) adjoining their original...
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locomotive work was transferred from Wolverton. Wolverton became the carriage works, while wagon building was concentrated at Earlestown. In 1853, Crewe...
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first-class carriages in 2014 included interiors that featured a new GWR logo, with no First branding. The whole company was rebranded Great Western Railway...
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suburban carriages. Following this program ceasing the works closed in September 1989 after which it was used to store redundant carriages and to remove...
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introduced by the Southern Railway. Both departmental locomotives and carriages were numbered in a series commencing at 1S. The series was retained by...
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1923, SR had continued to build carriages to the designs of the previous three main companies (the London and South Western Railway, London, Brighton and...
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Taken over by the Great Western Railway, after nationalisation under British Railways they sold off the carriage and wagon works to the Pullman Company...
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British Rail Mark 3 (section Entertainment carriages)
The British Rail Mark 3 is a type of passenger carriage developed in response to growing competition from airlines and the car in the 1970s. A variant...
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Baby transport (redirect from Baby carriage)
been used in different cultures and times. These methods include baby carriages (prams in British English), infant car seats, portable bassinets (carrycots)...
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