Great Western Railway Telegraphic Codes - Wagons

Wagons

Note: many of these codes could have an extra letter to identify variations, such as Mink A (a 16 ft (4.9 m) ventilated van), or Mink G (a 21 ft (6.4 m) ordinary van). Most of these codes were painted onto the wagons for easy identification.

• Aero – airscrew wagon (from 1941)
• Ale – cattle wagon converted for beer barrels (from 1940)
• Asmo – covered motor car truck
• Beaver – flat truck
• Bocar – covered truck for car bodies
• Cone – gunpowder van
• Conflat – flat wagon for containers
• Coral – glass wagon
• Cordon – gas reservoir truck
• Covcar – covered carriage truck
• Crocodile – well trolley

• Damo – covered motor car truck
• Fruit – fruit van
• Gadfly – aeroplane truck
• Gane – engineers rail truck
• Grano – covered grain hopper
• Loriot – machine truck
• Macaw – timber truck
• Mayfly – transformer truck

• Mica – meat van
• Mink – covered goods van
• Milta – milk tank
• Mite – twin timber trucks
• Mogo – covered motor car wagon
• Morel – propeller truck
• Open – open wagon
• Parto – covered van with movable partitions

• Pollen – girder or boiler truck
• Rectank – trolley for steam rollers, etc.
• Roder – flat truck for road vehicles (to 1935)
• Rotruck – road-rail truck for milk tanks
• Serpent – carriage truck
• Tevan – converted Mica for special traffic
• Toad – goods brake van, which became the standard designs nickname
• Totem – armour plate and girder wagon
• Tourn – eight-wheeled open (to 1934)