British Rail Departmental Wagons
British Rail departmental wagons are wagons used by British Rail and their successors Railtrack and Network Rail for departmental purposes. Many vehicles are named after aquatic creatures (including fish, mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or ...s, birds and mythical creatures), these names started life as telegraphic codes. List of Codes {, class="wikitable" , + !Name !TOPS Code !Wagon Type !Image !Note , - , Barbel , ZKV , 4 Wheel Open Wagon , , Converted from MSV Iron Ore Tippler , - , Bass (fish), Bass , ZDA , 4 Wheel Open Wagon , , , - , Bream , ZEA / ZEB / ZEX , Runner Wagon , , , - , Brill (fish), Brill , YAA , Bogie Flat wagon, Flat Wagon , , , - , Carp , ZBA , Open wagon, Open Wagon , , , - , Catfish , ZEV , 4 Wheel Hopper car, Ballast Hopper ...
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British Rail
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies, and was privatised in stages between 1994 and 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission, it became an independent statutory corporation in January 1963, when it was formally renamed the British Railways Board. The period of nationalisation saw sweeping changes in the railway. A process of dieselisation and electrification took place, and by 1968 steam locomotives had been entirely replaced by diesel and electric traction, except for the Vale of Rheidol Railway (a narrow-gauge tourist line). Passengers replaced freight as the main source of business, and one-third of the network was closed by the Beeching cuts of the 1960s in an effort to reduce rail subsidies. On privatis ...
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