S&DJR 4-wheeled fruit & milk van no 11

This van was fitted with brake pipes and screw couplings and painted in lined blue livery as part of the passenger train rolling stock. The S&D had little or no other stock* with this style of panelling introduced on the Midland Railway around the turn of the century. Perhaps this van was bought in from Derby. I can only remember seeing one other picture of 'square' panelled S&D stock and that was an old workman's train carriage.
* I have now spotted a proper scale drawing of this vehicle which was a 5 ton 25 ft Fruit & Milk Van, in Peter Tatlow's Historic Carriage Drawings - Volume Three - Non-passenger Coaching Stock - page 106. It appears that the S&D had 12 - nos. 7 -18. The Midland Railway had approximately 90 virtually identical.
Although this looks unlined, looking closely at the original print, it seems likely that the paintwork was well weathered and the lining had dulled down, so as to be inconspicuous against the more obvious light and shade of the panelling. After all the S&DJR and 11 are almost invisible.

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