The "workmen's mail" arriving at Brimstone Bottom about 1904. MSWJR goods brake van No.9 is being employed on the train. These vehicles were rather basic, having been obtained in a hurry in 1896, and had been phased out of main line service as soon as better brake vans could be afforded. When the Tidworth work was completed, the old brakes were converted into ordinary goods wagons.
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