Date: 09/03/2021

Updates to rail freight operating instructions have seen the final removal of the requirement to provide brake vans in some circumstances.

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Brake van requirements removed from railway operating rules

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UK: Updates to rail freight operating instructions have seen the final removal of the requirement to provide brake vans in some circumstances.

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Now that's what I call a wheel. It is fitted to a Shark brake van (DB993895 - formerly allocated to Tavistock Junction), also useable as a ballast plough - but looks as though it was formerly fitted to a schooner. See image [[38655]]
Location: Bodmin Parkway
Company: Cornwall Railway
29/11/2014 Ken Strachan

G&SW Brake van No.122 from 1901 basks in the sun while being shunted from its restoration point to the museum of Scottish railways at Bo'ness on 16th September 2019.
Location: Bo^ness
Company: Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway
16/09/2019 Douglas McPherson

An ex-LMS brake van brings up the rear of a train on the NCB mineral line from Comrie Colliery to Oakley Yard, Fife, in May 1976. The train is crossing the A907 at a location still referred to locally as the 'White Gates'. See image [[22451]]
Location: Comrie (Fife) LC
Company: Forth Ironworks Railway
17/05/1976 Bill Roberton

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