Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Seven plank open mineral wagon to 1923 Railway Clearing House specification, builder and former owners unknown. Obtained 1988 from the National Coal Board’s Cwm Coke Works where it had been in internal use without any painted livery. Rebuilt by the Museum in 1989 and again in 2004, on the latter rebuild being painted with two different replica Welsh colliery private owner coal wagon liveries: “Ocean Coal Co Ltd” on one side, and “Cwmgwrach Colliery (Caerbryn & Empire Collieries Ltd)” on the other side.

The two liveries applied to this wagon in 2005 following rebuilding in 2004-05 are based on the following - "Ocean” (a 1904 record photograph taken by a railway wagon building company, published in A.J.Watts “Private owner wagons from the Ince Waggon & Ironworks Co.”, Historical Model Railway Society, 1998, p.162) and "Cwmgwrach” (a 1909 record photograph taken by railway a wagon building company, published in “K.Montague “Private owner wagons from the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd”, Oxford publishing Co, 1981, p.71.).