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	Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRCandW) was a railway locomotive and carriage builder, founded in Birmingham, England and, for most of its existence, located at nearby Smethwick, with the factory divided by the boundary between the two places.
		It supplied vehicles to all four of the pre-nationalisation "big four" railway companies (LMS, SR, LNER and GWR), British Rail, Pullman (some of which are still in use) and Wagons Lits, plus railways as diverse as those in Egypt, India, South Africa, Iraq, Malaya and Nigeria, to name but a few.
		Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company - A Century of Achievement, 1855 - 1963, John Hypher, Colin Wheeler and Stephen Wheeler (Runpast, 1996)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birmingham_Railway_Carriage_and_Wagon_Company (324 words)

	THE OLDBURY RAILWAY CARRIAGE & WAGON COMPANY
		The history of this company really commenced at Bromsgrove, a town situated midway between Birmingham and Worcester and was bought into being by Mr Johnson of Bricklehampton Hall nearby and an MP for the City of Worcester.
		When the first railways were built the companies laid down the rails, built the bridges and stations, fitted up the signals and leased the lines to contractors who provided their own rolling stock and worked the railway.
		As it was before the steel age practically all the carriages and wagons with their underframes were of timber and this department formed the major part of the works.
	metcam.co.uk.nstempintl.com /oldbury.htm (4451 words)

	Gloucester Transport History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Two carriages built by The Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company to British Railways specifications were exhibited at a rolling stock exhibition at Battersea Wharf, London, alongside the English Electric "Deltic" diesel and carriages from Cravens, Birmingham RCW and Metro-Cammell.
		Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company and Cravens had both folded by 1964, Metropolitan Cammell diversified and survives into the 21st Century as part of Alsthom while The Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company stayed in business into the 1980s by concentrating on bogies, suspension and rolling stock undergear.
		On 29 December 1961 The Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company was acquired by Wingets Ltd of Rochester, Kent.
	glostransporthistory.softdata.co.uk /grcw.html (3646 words)

	The Railways and Steam Engines Collection
		Goods wagons of the KG type may have been used in coal trains out of the Orissa and Bihar coalfields, but Indian railway history in the 1920s is very complex, so one cannot be sure of this.
		This type of carriage was ordered for East African Railways in 1954, and 34 cars (some day, some sleeping) were bought by the Crown Agents for use on long-distance routes in the then colonies of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika.
		Birmingham Central Library is one of the largest and most important public libraries in Europe.
	www.birmingham.gov.uk /GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=2479&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=260 (781 words)

	British Rail Class 118 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Rail Class 118 diesel multiple units were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRCW) and introduced from 1960.
		Originally allocated to the Western Region, the final vehicles were allocated to Tyseley depot in Birmingham, and were all withdrawn by 1994.
		Like most first generation DMUs they were originally BR Green, then plain blue, and finally blue and grey, with a few receiving Network SouthEast livery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Rail_Class_118 (350 words)

	Bluebell Railway Wagons - LMSR 12 Ton Open (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This wagon is one of 12,200 12 Ton Open Merchandise wagons built to LMSR diagram D1892 between 1934 and 1939.
		This particular wagon was built in 1934 by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company with automatic vacuum brake and "clasp" type brakegear, but its original running number is unknown.
		The frame of this wagon is in poor condition due to corrosion.
	www.bluebell-railway.co.uk /bluebell/wagon/66071.html (305 words)

	GCR Locomotive:33116
		His company was a forerunner of Crompton Parkinson Ltd. Which supplied the electrical equipment for the class 33 locomotives which thus came to be known by the nickname "Crompton".
		All 98 locomotives were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited and were introduced to service between 1960 and 1962.
		For safety reasons a warning bell/light unit is attached to the front coupling for this part of the run and the locomotive proceeds at walking pace accompanied by staff on foot (and sometimes a police car) to ensure that cars are kept clear.
	www.gcrailway.co.uk /locos/d33116.htm (2411 words)

	A brief history of the Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd 1845-1945
		He realised that the era of the stagecoach was drawing to a close and he began in the early 1840s to devote his energies to the manufacture in his London works of railway carriages, utilising to the full the skill and experience of the coach builders already employed by him.
		As the railways grew the demand for rolling stock was such that Joseph Wright decided to build a new factory in the provinces where he would have unlimited space at his disposal.
		Of the companies comprising the Cammell Laird group at that time, the Midland Railway Carriage and Co Ltd was the oldest.
	metcam.co.uk.nstempintl.com /history.htm (1938 words)

	Pahiatua Railcar Society - Rm 133
		The Drewry Car Company had been in business for over 40 years, and was a designer of railway locomotives and railcars.
		The actual construction of equipment was contracted out to railway equipment builders, with these railcars being built by the Birmingham Railway, Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd, Smethwick Works, Birmingham, England.
		This was not to be the end of the story of these railcars as many of them had their motors removed and were modified to serve as passenger carriages until around 1984.
	railcar.netfirms.com /rm133_details.htm (1143 words)

	The Community of Smethwick
		Smethwick was rapidly expanding and the arrival of the railways in 1852 put Smethwick firmly on the map.
		The presence of the canal encouraged Boulton and Watt to build the Soho Foundry on the banks of the canal.
		The Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company operated from Smethwick and Chance's made glass for the famous Crystal Palace exhibition of 1851.
	www.birminghamuk.com /smethwick.htm (501 words)

	Smethwick - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Smethwick (pronounced 'Smethick') is a town adjacent to Birmingham and West Bromwich in England.
		It is now at Thinktank, the new science museum in Birmingham.
		Other former industry included railway rolling stock manufacture, at the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company factory; screws and other fastenings from Guest Keen and Nettlefolds, engines from Tangye, tubing from Evered's, steel pen nibs from British Pens and various products from Chances Glassworks, including lighthouse lenses and the glazing for the Crystal Palace.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Smethwick (1136 words)

	Railways On Line - BRCW Lion Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Prototype Type 4 Locomotive
		Introduced in April 1962, this prototype locomotive was built by a collection of contractors, including BRCW, Sulzer and AEI, in the hope that the design would be adopted as the future standard type 4.
		Permission to use these images in railway society newsletters, etc., can be obtained by e-mailing the Thin Controller.
	www.hmilburn.easynet.co.uk /enthuse/diesel/locos/d0260.htm (170 words)

	Bluebell Railway Carriage Fleet Review 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		BTK 4279was the railway's first Bulleid acquisition, and with No. 4227, were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company to a hybrid design, combining a Bulleid style body with many features, most noticeably aluminium window frames, reminiscent of the last batch of Maunsell coaches.
		Resources are finite and the department could quite easily spend the lion's share of its "restoration time" between now and the millennium restoring and reinstating the status quo of 1990.
		Fixed tables introduced to meet the railway's operational and commercial requirements have been constructed along the same lines as the removable "Southern" version, with specially constructed brackets using the same screw-holes associated with the original loose table arrangement.
	www.bluebell-railway.co.uk /~zhaa009/bb/CarRev6_Bull.html (1475 words)

	Spa Valley Railway
		Built in 1932 by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Ltd. The two cars above made up six car sets of the MW (LT designation "T" Stock) type electric multiple units on the Metropolitan Railway working out of Baker Street, to Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
		They were amongst the last of the type to run on the Metropolitan Railway, with the last running in October 1962.
		The coaches were preserved by the North Downs Steam Railway and moved to the Spa Valley in 1996.
	www.spavalleyrailway.co.uk /tstock_2.htm (269 words)

	Member Groups Forming The Midland Diesel Group
		33201 was built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, at their Smethwick workshops in Birmingham, during the end of 1961 and early part of 1962.
		She was the first of twelve engines with a modified body for working through the restricted tunnels on the Tonbridge to Hastings railway line this requiring the body width to be 9 inches narrower than normal.
		The Peak Locomotive Company is a special interest group established in 1981 by a group of diesel locomotive enthusiasts who admired the British Railways Class 44, 45, and 46 locomotives.
	members.tripod.com /~DGB/groups.htm (2183 words)

	Chris Tolley's "Photo Gallery - Railways 4"
		It is on the former Great Western Railway line between Birmingham and Oxford, near the junction with the line to Stratford-upon-Avon via Henley-in-Arden.
		The "live" railway facilities there now only occupy part of the site, and the rest has been given over to the Birmingham Railway Museum.
		The Class 27 locomotives were built only a few miles from Tyseley depot, at the Smethwick factory of the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /cj.tolley/PG-R004.HTM (678 words)

	Smethwick Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		From the 18th century, three generations of canal were built through Smethwick, carrying coal and goods between the nearby Black Country and Birmingham.
		Other former industry included railway rolling stock manufacture, at the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company factory; screws and other fastenings from Guest Keen and Nettlefold, engines and from Tangye, and various products from Chances Glasswork, incuding lighthouse lenses and the glazing for the Crystal Palace.
		The Ruskin Pottery Studio, named in honour of the artist John Ruskin, was in Oldbury Road.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/s/sm/smethwick.html (360 words)

	Wagons & Coaches
		Bogie Carriages of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway..
		It was not for nothing that the London and North Western Railway was known as the 'Premier Line'.
		This authoritative work is a full history of the Midland Railway carriage, which deservedly enjoyed an international reputation...
	www.saxoncourtbooks.co.uk /railwaybooks/cat16_1.htm (301 words)

	Bulleid Q1 Class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The company's primary traffic was, naturally, that of passengers and this was reflected among the locomotive fleet, which was constituted by a mix of pre and post-Grouping types.
		With the war underway, Bulleid decreed that the SR required a new fleet of specialised freight locomotives to deal with the rapid increase in goods traffic to and from the English Channel ports.
		The Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company had delivered all Type 3 diesels by 1962, all being Hither Green-allocated.
	www.kentrail.co.uk /bulleid_q1_class.htm (600 words)

	Gloucester History Waggon Works (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One of the earliest orders was for 1000 coal wagons for the West Midlands railway company This followed a decision by the company early on to concentrate on coal wagon production.
		This was probably the most luxurious railway carriage ever built and was the largest ever to be constructed in Britain at that time Built to run on 5’6'’ gauge tracks it measured 68' long by 10' wide and weighed over 50 tons.
		By this time Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company had acquired The Gloucester Foundry Ltd, William Gardner and Sons (Gloucester) Ltd, Joseph Kaye and Sons Ltd,Wright and Martin Ltd (renamed GRCW Company in 1961),Hatherley Works Ltd, Gloucester Wagon Hiring Company, and was a major shareholder in Wagon Repairs Ltd
	www.softdata.co.uk /gloucester/wagon.htm (2866 words)

	Watercress Line - Vintage Carriage Group
		This vehicle was built for the Southern Railway by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company to the design of O.V.S.Bulleid in 1947.
		4211 was purchased from Bristol by the Mid-Hants Railway in this condition in 1975, and it arrived at Alresford in 1976.
		We are in negotiation with the Swanage Railway to acquire a corridor connection to instal on the London end of 4367.
	www.watercressline.co.uk /vcg.htm (2021 words)

	Scottish Region Sulzer Type 2 Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The 24s and 25s were of British Railways design whilst the 26s and 27s were designed and built by the Birmingham Railway carriage and Wagon Company of Smethwick.
		This was all part of the 1955 modernisation plan, which involved the replacement of steam locomotives on British Railways.
		Crompton Parkinson supplied the equipment for class 26 and the General Electric Company (GEC), or at least I think that is what GEC stood for!, supplied the equipment for class 27.
	www.6lda28.com /scr1.html (390 words)

	PPS Steam - NDR Carriage Works
		These carriages are models based on the four wheeled vehicles used on the Ffestiniog Railway in the late nineteenth century.
		Cattle wagon based on those in use on both the Vale of Reidol and Welshpool and Llanfair Railways.
		These “Tatty Trucks” are made to the same high standard as other NDR rolling stock, but are painted in grey with fl metalwork and are weathered to appear as they would during their normal working lives.
	www.pps-steam-models.co.uk /ndr.htm (1522 words)

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		His subject matter often entails the industrial city of Birmingham, for which he has been denigrated as “provincial” because concerned with a region other than “London and Oxford and Cambridge, and one or two rather well-to-do spots around that way” (39).
		The bookend, he tells us, was the illegitimate nightwork from the “Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company,” which otherwise specialized in “Churchill tanks” during the war.
		In City, Fisher wrote of Birmingham that “most of it has never been seen.” He has consistently addressed uncharted pockets of perception and experience, which are neither predetermined by the poet before the fact of the poem, nor easily defined afterwards.
	www.nd.edu /~ndr/issues/ndr11/reviews/johnston.html (2427 words)

	Suburban Electric Railway Association - LMS Class 503 Wirral EMUs
		To operate these services new three coach units were built that could only be described as 'State Of The Art' as they had many features that had never been seen on a British suburban railway before, and were a generation removed from the steam hauled coaches they replaced.
		Motor third and the intermediate trailer composite coaches were built by Metropolitan Cammel at their Wednesbury works whilst the driving trailer third vehicles were constructed at the Smethwick works of the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company.
		All units of both batches were required to be modified in the mid seventies to permit them to work in the, then, new deep level loop line tunnel under Liverpool city centre.
	www.emus.co.uk /503.htm (462 words)

	hopper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This wagon was constructed in 1938 as part of a batch of two hundred by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company.
		Later, when iron ore started to be imported from abroad and freight handling methods changed, the days of the unfitted mineral wagon became numbered, and many were withdrawn.
		When the British Sugar Corporation's railway facilities at Bury St. Edmunds were closed, this wagon was amongst several items presented to the East Anglian Railway Museum for preservation.
	www.earm.co.uk /stockfiles/hopper.htm (199 words)

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