979014 LB&SCR Dia.8-Ton Goods Van BR No.S46966 option-set-039 fine dining and a luxury

fine dining and a luxury experience is guaranteed to be had by any visitors to this establishment - we’ve heard the beer’s pretty good too

100 were built between 1927–1929 at the GWR Swindon Works and were numbered 4575-4599 and 5500-5574

the cars have been manufactured over the years by Hawker Siddeley

stressed skin construction with diagonal trusses

979014 LB&SCR Dia.8-Ton Goods Van BR No.S46966 option-set-039 fine dining and a luxuryThe London, Brighton & South Coast Railway had a relatively modest number of covered vans within its fleet. It is speculated that this may be due to the number of open wagons that featured a sheet rail, so a substantial number of vans would have been unnecessary. Of course, it could simply have been that the region didnt have the quantity of perishable goods traffic to justify a much larger fleet. Almost 600 covered goods vans were built by the LB&SCR