For those of you who visited the Signal box 4 or 5 years
ago, you may remember that we used to have a structure in the place where the
Cowley Bridge building now stands. This was, at the time, our visitor center
and it was an old 'meat waggon' that used to be used to transport meat
(unsurprisingly) on the rail network. When it was no longer fit for use by us,
the Watercress Line very kindly took it off our hands (and may have regretted
doing this very quickly as it near fell apart in transit). However, a couple of
years later and it has been superbly restored to working order and is now used
in their demonstration freight trains (and it was out in their steam gala last
weekend). Next time you pay a visit to the Mid Hants railway, keep a lookout
for Container S 749.
It is believed to be one of the last (if not THE last) remaining containers of its kind so it is a unique piece of history with a sad background because we at the signal box did really look after it as we should have and we didn't have anything to put it on (we only had the container no wheels/wagon) so it was sat on the ground. I think we can all agree it looks much more at home on the rails. There will be a full article about this in the next edition of the signal.
It is believed to be one of the last (if not THE last) remaining containers of its kind so it is a unique piece of history with a sad background because we at the signal box did really look after it as we should have and we didn't have anything to put it on (we only had the container no wheels/wagon) so it was sat on the ground. I think we can all agree it looks much more at home on the rails. There will be a full article about this in the next edition of the signal.
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