The GWR Toad is a class of railway brake van, designed by and built for the Great Western Railway. Used by the GWR from 1894, and post-1947 by the Western Region of British Railways, its role was a safety brake on goods trains in the West of England, the Midlands and Wales.

A 'Road Van' was a brake van fitted with Mink-style wooden doors in each side which converted the cabin or part of it into a goods/parcels compartment. Only five Road Vans were thought to be built: 8804, 8864 and 12022 (from AA16) and 17600 and 56448 (from AA3).

The GWR 16/25 Ton Brake Vans are a type of goods brake van. The North Western Railway owns a limited supply of these vans. These are added to the back of a goods train and a guard rides in it. Each brake van is equipped with a strong brake to …

2017年8月2日 · I've done a revamp of the gwr.org page on goods brake vans, including updating the list of lot and running numbers (backdated to 1882), included some diagrams and visuals, and done a minor update to the brake vans allocations Word document. Comments, brickbats and corrections welcome. http://www....

The Great Western Railway (UK) commonly used the TOAD or AA Class brake vans on the end of their trains. There where many different types of GWR TOAD brake vans all with minor changes on them to the original model. The standard TOAD weighed in a 20 tons and was normally used for the back of goods trains.

2011年2月5日 · I would like to hear from anyone who knows whether GWR (in the steam days) ever ran goods trains with a Brake Van (i.e. a "Toad") at both ends of a goods train (e.g. a coal train) to allow for quick turn around.

So 12 special short brake vans (16'0" over head stocks) were built to work between Acton and Smithfield, these were allocated diagram AA7. While reading up on the Hammersmith & City Railway on the internet, I came across these quite attractive short vans.

British Railways inherited a variety of brake vans from each of the Big Four: GWR, LNER, Southern Railway and LMS due to the nationalisation of the railways in 1948. A brake van, on a train, is a wagon at the rear of a goods train where a guard would sit with a hand brake.

Most of the footbaords have been removed and brakes converted to a Dean-Churchward type. Visually very similar to V13 except there are droplights in all of the doors, but notice that all the dimensions are slightly different. As V13 except both internal partitions removed. There were extra ventillators in roof that are not shewn on the drawing.

The GWR built these special brake vans between 1890 and 1900, for use on track maintenance trains. They have end windows instead of the usuall verandah. Easy to assemble from the correctly coloured injection moulded components (no painting necessary). Kits include Transfers. Buffers are sprung and 3-link couplings are