Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
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Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (GRC&W) was a railway rolling stock manufacturer based at Gloucester, England; from 1860 until 1986. The company supplied the original fleet of red trains for the Toronto Subway, which were based upon similar vehicles for the London Underground.
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[edit] Products
Rolling stock manufactured by the company is listed below:
Railcars
- Goods all-iron wagons 1862
- steel welded carriages 1933
- L-types cement wagons 1950s
- Pressure Discharge Bulk Powder Wagon ("Presflo") 1955-1963
- "Twin-Tub" Prestwin Silo wagons 1960-1962
- Cemflo Cement tanker wagon
Diesel multiple units
- British Rail Class 100 1956-1958
- British Rail Class 119 1958
- British Rail Class 122 1958
- British Rail Class 156 1987
Electrical multiple units
- London Underground E Stock 1914
- London Underground G Stock 1924-1925[1]
- London Underground O / P Stock 1937-1941[1]
- London Underground Q38 Stock 1938-1940
- London Underground R38/1 & R38/2 Stock rebuilt 1948-1953[2]
- London Underground R47 Stock built 1949-1950[2]
- London Underground 1956 Stock 1957-1959
- Melbourne (Australia) "Harris" trains 1956-1971
- Toronto Subway G-series built 1953-1959
Special orders
- Pioneer - an amphibious railcar used by Magnus Volk’s Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway 1894; scrapped 1910[3]
- 14 68 ft Palace on Wheels coaches (Rajasthan- Jaipur, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Bikaner, Alwar, Udaipur, Bundi, Kota, Jhalawar, Dungarpur, Dholpur, Bharatpur, Sirohi, and Kishangarh)- for Indian Maharajah 1936; now opearted by Indian Railways as tourist train[4]
Military
- pivoting sections for the Mulberry Harbour for the British War Office 1944
[edit] People associated with the company
- James Platt of Fielding & Platt (Director)[5]
- Robert Blinkhorn Gloucester businessman. (Director)[5]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Hardy, Brian (2002). Surface Stock 1933-1959. Underground Train File. Harrow Weald: Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-247-X.
- ^ a b Connor, Piers (1983). The 'R' Stock Story. Hemel Hempstead: London Underground Railway Society. ISBN 0 9508793 0 4.
- ^ http://www.volkselectricrailway.co.uk/
- ^ http://www.irfca.org/faq/faq-seltrain.html
- ^ a b "GLOUCESTER RAILWAY CARRIAGE AND WAGON COMPANY" in The Birmingham Daily Post, 17 August 1889, Issue 9718, p. 6.
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