C V Buchan 14 ton flat wagons nos 4 and 5, ex tank wagons

Like CEGB flat wagons numbers 1,2 and 3, these two useful flats also started life as private owner tank wagons.  In this case they were shorter wagons built to the RCH 14 ton specification, measuring 17'6" in length over headstocks, with a wheelbase of 10'0".  Number 4 was originally built as a tank wagon by Hurst Nelson of Motherwell in 1937 and registered by the LMS as number 151245, while number 5 was built by G R Turner of Langley Mill in 1942 and registered as LMS number 162588.  No details of their former owners or the type of liquids they carried are known, but they were unfitted and probably carried either oil or petrol. In appearance they would have been similar to Birchenwood tank wagon No30 and Crosfields tank wagon No1 that are preserved complete at Foxfield. 

After removal of the tanks, probably in the late 1960s, and replacement by a simple wooden floor, the two flat wagons were used by C V Buchan (Concrete) Ltd of Swynnerton to transport materials within its concrete works.  They carried a black livery with the company name on the solebars, plus a liberal smattering of concrete!  Both were donated to the Foxfield Railway and moved by road on 20 March 1990.  By co-incidence, their internal user numbers, 4 and 5, followed on from the CEGB flat wagons numbered 1 to 3. They remain in the condition they arrived and have seen a great deal of use carrying track materials, one being fitted with simple sleeper sides to retain a loose load.
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