972006 GER Dia.17 5-Plank Open Wagon LDEC No.913 Planes LENGTH 420mm

LENGTH 420mm

leaving the works on 23 April 1953

Penzance and Scotland

(Please do not twist this wire and the other dropper wire together)

972006 GER Dia.17 5-Plank Open Wagon LDEC No.913 Planes LENGTH 420mmDesigned 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