Carriages and Wagons Gallery

First Class broad gauge carriage

Built by Wright and Sons, 1854. Originally built for the Chester and Birkenhead Railway

Broad Gauge, First Class

Passenger Brake, Ocean Mails Van, No. 1174

Built in 1926 to diagram K38, Lot 1346. Seen here with Ocean mails lettering

1174, K38, Ocean Mails Van, Passenger Brake

Female stewardess, 1917

A Dining Car Waitress in her crisp white apron stands in the doorway of dining car No. 9546 on Platform 2, Paddington Station in 1917. Rail travel during the war was not just restricted to essential journeys. Travel for pleasure continued according to Mr Guy Calthrop, General Manager of the London and North Western Railway, who was asked to represent all of the railway companies before the Man Power Distribution Board. In his report of October 1916 Mr Calthrop stated that there is an enormous amount of "joy-riding" on railways at the present time'; and facilities such as on-board dining for long journeys were as integral to the service the GWR offered its customers as before the war began

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