Carriage Shed

The carriage shed is where the Carriage and Wagon (C&W) do most of their work and houses the Society's collection of carriages. Within the carriage shed there is a raised platform to enable visitors to view the inside of some of the vehicles and see the progress being made on some of them. To enable work to be done on the vehicles there is also a fully equiped wood working shop, which acan mack most things, including the new locomotive shed doors. Also being added to the shed is a set of carriage lifting jacks, these were bought from Swindon, this will enable C&W to remove bogies for overhaul much easier.

Work to restore both carriages and wagons can involve the vehicle being completely stripped down to the frames and rebuilt. The 2 pictures show GWR SUper Saloons, Prince of Wales stripped down, and Queen Mary OK to use.

All photographs ©Mark Baldry