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but were built with a tilting mechanism enabling up to six degrees of tilt to allow higher speeds on curved tracks

Twenty single car driving units or bubble cars and ten trailer vehicles were built by Gloucester RC&W in 1958 and six survive into preservation

Opened in 1898

many were privately owned and carried on in use post nationalisation right into the 1960’s

Sliding luggage doors

7F-300-009 O Gauge GWR Toad Brake Van Bauxite W17390 Diagram AA21 GW Fruit A Van but were built with aAfter World War One in 1918, more 20 ton vans to the improved design were built with G W R self contained buffers and given Diagram AA15. A total of 378 were built between 1918 and 1927. The next development was the AA19 which were built between 1927 and 1931 incorporating many RCH parts such as buffers and axleboxes but utilising the same body. The total constructed was 221 vans. Diagram AA 20 followed which was externally identical to the AA19 vans