Adrodd fel Amhriodol
Testun Gwreiddiol (Anodiad: WPW038270 / 433873)
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A large collection of open wagons. Many of these seem to be rather clean inside for the some of the expected traffic in the area. Coal to Butt Town Basin and the raw materials for the Iron and steel works would soon dirty the often unpainted insides of these wooden bodied wagons. Some may have been there after carrying relatively clean timber.
On a number of maps various wagon works are noted in the immediate area to the right of the picture on both sides of the steel works. While these might be repair works for the various building and wagon leasing companies with their main works elsewhere (Gloucester for example) they may also have built new wagons, thus providing at least some of the cleaner wagons!
Others are clearly in service but other than some LMS and a large proportion of PO wagons with a white diagonal cross on their doors most of the writing is not decipherable.
Such a stock of wagons suggests fluctuations in traffic .... which may well have been the case in 1932 in the steel and timber industries. '