page_title: Royal Arsenal Railway
section_title: Rolling stock
hierarchical_section_title: Royal Arsenal Railway / The 18 in gauge railway / Rolling stock
caption_attribution_description: A former explosives wagon of the Royal Arsenal Railway, previously on display at North Woolwich Old Station Museum, now back at the Royal Arsenal site near the Heritage Centre, standing on some ex Chatham cast track plates.
context_page_description: The Royal Arsenal Railway was a private military railway which operated inside the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, southeast London.
context_section_description: By the 1890s, the goods rolling stock on the narrow gauge part of the RAR consisted mainly of (1) a four-wheeled wagon utilising a standard wooden underframe with a cast iron double bearing assembly attached under each side to accommodate the wheelsets; and (2) a channel framed bogie wagon with cast iron bogie frames. There were at least three designs of bogie carriage in use at this time, namely the original 'knifeboard' open pattern, a closed 1st/2nd class composite with diagonal body planking and a 'curly roofed' suprintendent saloon. There were also a number of Bagnall and Fowler bogie wagons left over from the abortive Suakin-Berber campaign. By World War One, the closed seven plank bogie wagon using the type (2) chassis above was the most ubiquitous item of rolling stock and a small number of these even remained on site after the closure of the railway system. There were also seven narrow gauge passenger coaches supplied by Bristol Carriage & Wagon Co. in 1917 but these, along with all other narrow gauge passenger stock, are thought to have been disposed of in 1923.
caption: Explosives wagon of the Royal Arsenal Railway, previously on display at North Woolwich Old Station Museum,[2] at the Royal Arsenal site near the Heritage Centre in 2009, standing on some ex Chatham cast track plates
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