972006 GER Dia.17 5-Plank Open Wagon LDEC No.913 Planes Item Number 22-081

Item Number    22-081

leaving the works on 23 April 1953

Penzance and Scotland

Chairman of the Bala Lake Railway Trust

F14 - AWS Bell

972006 GER Dia.17 5-Plank Open Wagon LDEC No.913 Planes Item Number 22-081Designed to replace the ageing 8 ton and 9 ton timber framed wagons of the 1870s and 1880s, the Diagram 17s were a robust steel framed 5 plank wagon with a 9ft wheelbase, a set of doors on either side and an improved 10 ton load capacity. 12,050 examples were constructed between 1893 and 1903, accounting for 65% of the companys wagons built during this period, and by the time the last one rolled off the production line they constituted 45% of the