No 2862 - 'Fruit C' Passenger Fruit Van

‘Fruit’ is the GWR telegraphic code for fruit vans - an uncharacteristically obvious code. The ‘C’ in this instance indicates that the wagon was vacuum braked and therefore suitable for inclusion in a passenger train, hence the brown livery carried.

2862 is one of 50 such fruit vans built to diagram Y9 under lots 1601/34 in 1937-9. As built they were fitted with gas lighting and with removable galvanised wire trays to carry the fruit boxes. The van was later used by British Rail for internal traffic, carrying ‘Enparts’ livery. it was preserved in 1980, initially at Bitton, near Bristol, before coming to Didcot in 1996.

Now used by the locomotive department for storage, the vehicle was repainted in Spring 2021.

Build date

1939

Built at

GWR Swindon

Lot Number

1634

Diag No

Y.9

Date Preserved

1980

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