London Underground Bogie Rail Bolster wagon 531006

Above: LUL bogie rail bolster wagon as delivered to Caverswall Road

This large modern wagon is with small wheeled diamond framed bogies and a low steel floor for ease of handling 60 foot rails. It has small winch arms fitted, with ends that flip out beyond the loading gauge to enable individual rails to be picked up and set down alongside the track.Small stanchions ensure the rails stay on the bolsters. Number 531006 was built by the Gloucestershire Railway Carriage & Wagon Co for use on track renewal on London Underground, and is a good example of the equipment now available for permanent way work. Despite its relatively modern design it was rendered redundant with several others and was purchased by a member to improve rail handling at Foxfield, in place of the miscellaneous flat wagon conversions currently employed. 

Parts from an identical wagon were also acquired when it was cut up for scrap, to equip the example now at Foxfield with additional side stanchions, but these have yet to be fitted. It carries a yellow livery with black bogies.

Identical wagons are also preserved on the Severn Valley Railway and at the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway - for a photo see http://www.pogo.org.uk/railway/photos/jp02.jpg