973001 GER Dia.48 7-Plank Open Wagon GER No.9853 Toys 7 Class 56’s are currently

7 Class 56’s are currently preserved including Frank Hornby at Barrow Hill

3 suffered the same fate at the dawn of the preservation-era Ffestiniog Railway in 1955

been ordered by the Great Western Railway in 1946

This would turn out to just be the start of their engineering life as some would be cut down in height

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973001 GER Dia.48 7-Plank Open Wagon GER No.9853 Toys 7 Class 56’s are currentlyIn early 1903 while wagons of the final order of Diagram 17 were under construction, the GER was busy preparing a new 7 plank design with both an increased carrying capacity and an improved load retention for low weight but high volume goods. Within two months a prototype of the new 7 plank design had been completed by converting an existing 5 plank Diagram 17 wagon originally built in 1898. Trials of the wagon were successful, although the oil axle