Rail Album - Military Wagons - World War Two

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An official photograph of a train of 50-ton 'Warwell' wagons carrying Sherman tanks. The nearest wagon is labelled as on loan to the LMS, which is consistent with the LMS brake van to the right of the photo.

MoD's remaining fleet of 50-ton 'Warwell' private owner wagons were given new bogies and were issued design code PF 041B in wagon number series MODA 95500 to MODA 95583. The vacuum braked wagons were issued TOPS code PFV and those with vacuum brake and through air pipe were PFB. Later, when air braking became standard the wagons became TOPS type KWA.

Here PFA wagon number MODA 95506 is seen carrying a road trailer at Bevois Park Yard, Southampton, on 4th February 1990. The wagon carried a maker's plate indicating it was built by the Southern Railway at their Lancing Works in 1942.

US Army Transportation Corps, Military Railways, European Theater of Operations diagram 19.
British 50-ton 'Warwell' wagon.

Detail of Steel, Peech & Tozer 50-ton 'Warwell' wagon number BRE 12 in preservation at the South Yorkshire Railway on 30th July 1994.

An The Head Wrightson maker's plate on 50-ton 'Warwell' wagon DM 721211 at Exeter Riverside Yard on 9th October 1989. Another maker's plate identified that the wagon was re-built at Wolverton Works in 1948 as part of lot 1547.

This wagon was one of 100 purchased by the LMS after the war. These were used as follows:
12 wagons numbered LMS 360329 to 360340 to diagram 133F were designated 50 Ton Warwell Trolley.
38 wagons numbered LMS 721200 to 721237 to diagram 5B were designated Bogie Bolster B as lot 1547.
50 wagons numbered LMS 748300 to 748349 to diagram 11D were designated 30 Ton Bogie Rail Wagon as lot 1497.


	BR bought further forty 50-ton 'Warwell' wagons and numbered them into their Western Region series as W 160800 to W 160839. These were identical to the conversion to LMS diagram 5B and were designated as 30 Ton Bogie Bolster B. They were converted to diagram J33 at Swindon Works in July 1949, which later became known as diagram 1/486. The conversion work was allocated lot number 3415.

MoD 50-ton 'Warwell' wagon MODA 95515 carried TOPS code PFB when photographed at Hoo Junction on 28th May 1989. This wagon was built by the SR in 1942.

BR 50-ton 'Warwell' private owner wagon diagram PF 002B and re-designated PF041B.

The data panel shows the then present running numbers as MODA 95506 to MODA 95583 and the former running numbers of these wagons were WD 83008 to WD 83122.

Another view of unidentified 50-ton 'Warwell' wagon in industrial use at British Steel Corporation's Teesside Works 1st June 1991. It carried a Gloucester C&W maker's plate and LMS private owner registration number 1081 of 1944.

The Gloucester Carriage & Wagon Co Ltd maker's plate on 50-ton 'Warwell' KWA private owner wagon MODA 95526..

BR 50 ton 'Warwell' wagon DM 748343 carrying TOPS code YSO in Bescot Yard on 9th October 1988. It carried a plate showing the conversion was carried out at Derby Works in 1947

This BR also modified some 50-ton 'Warwell' wagons to have a small crane at each end.

Loaded TOPS type KWA 50-ton 'Warwell' wagon number MODA 95536 of TOPS type KWA was built by Gloucester Carriage & Wagon. It is seen here at Old Oak Common on 5th August 2000.

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