38-145A BR VDA Van BR Freight Brown (Railfreight) No.200659 graham-farish Gas Cylinders

Gas Cylinders

Usually comprising several underground ‘magazines’

and smokebox

Weathered BR Railfreight Red & Grey livery

38-145A BR VDA Van BR Freight Brown (Railfreight) No.200659 graham-farish Gas CylindersThe VDA van was a development of British Rails Cov AB air braked van which was first introduced in the late 1960s, with the VDAs entering traffic from 1975. Sharing the same 20ft 9in wheelbase as the original Cov ABs, the VDAs not only had sliding doors to allow the sides to be fully opened for loading unloading but these doors could also be opened individually as cupboard doors to allow quicker access to just one internal area. The vans entered