The BA class horseboxes seem to have had a relatively uneventful life until the end of the large-scale use of horses after the Second World War.
In 1952 numbers BA1000-1002, 1004 and 1005 were converted to ZBA class brake vans numbered 435-439. BA1003 was not selected for conversion for some reason and was written off in 1954.
ZBA436 and 439 had modified versions of their old plate frame bogies whereas the rest all got the ZJ type. Their subsequent history is as follows:
Photo The late Keith Douglas
