Back on Duty

After a bit of a break due to some health problems, I'm pleased to say that the EALR is now happily running it's summer schedules. Today Bert and Walter, between passenger traffic, are seen posing with the latest wagon to be produced by the EALR's wagon works, shown here in ex-works condition. It's anticipated that it won't be staying this clean for long, once it's put into service running livestock from the moors to the Quay for market.

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This wagon follows the normal build methods of the EALR and is loosely based on the early cattle wagons used by the W&L in the 1900s before they stopped using oak chassis and uprights. As usual I.P Engineering wheelsets, axleboxes and couplings were incorporated, the wagon itself being made form pine and mahogany stripwood.