page_title: Great Western Railway telegraphic codes
section_title: Wagons
hierarchical_section_title: Great Western Railway telegraphic codes / Wagons
caption_attribution_description: GWR Gunpowder Van No. 105777 at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. Built: 1939, Number: 105777, Tare Weight: 11 ton, Type: Gunpowder Van, Builder: GWR Swindon, Wheelbase: 9' 0"
context_page_description: Great Western Railway telegraphic codes were a commercial telegraph code used to shorten the telegraphic messages sent between the stations and offices of the railway.
  The codes listed below are taken from the 1939 edition of the Telegraph Message Code book unless stated otherwise.
context_section_description: 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
  Beetle – prize cattle wagon.
  Bloater – large fish van
  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
  Hydra – passenger rated well truck
  Loriot – machine truck
  Macaw – timber truck
  Mayfly – transformer truck
  Mex – ordinary cattle wagon
  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 machinery.
  Roder – flat truck for road vehicles (to 1935)
  Rotruck – road-rail truck for milk tanks
  Serpent – carriage truck
  Tadpole – open fish wagon
  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)
caption: Cone
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