Class BS Cattle trucks.
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The rise of the motor car between the wars meant that the demand for the old A class horseboxes declined and so numbers A5105/8/9, 5110/2/4, 5122-4, 5127, 5131/3/4/8, 5142 were converted to BS class cattle wagons. This conversion programme involved horseboxes of three different types. The oldest vehicles (5105/8/9, 5110/2/4) predated the N.Z.R. type underframe. The last wagon (5142) was an ex G.S.R. 14'-0" vehicle whilst the rest were all N.Z.R. type. This wagon was also the first converted (in 1936) with the rest following in 1937. |
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The advent of the new BE class cattle wagons meant that the old BS class could be withdrawn and they all went during the 1950's as follows:
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1952 |
5127, 5134 written off |
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1953 |
5124 written off |
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1954 |
5109, 5123, 5133, 5138 written off |
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1955 |
5105, 5112, 5114,5122 written off |
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1956 |
5108 written off |
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1957 |
5110, 5131, 5142 written off |
Other Cattle trucks
The W.A.G.R.'s other cattle trucks were classes
B, BD, BE, and the bogie vehicles in Classes T, TA and TAD.|
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