Pre-NCB tar tank

NO doubt other readers will point out that the tar tank (No. 48307) featured in Heritage Wagons Track Record for October cannot have been built for the National Coal Board in 1939, as the NCB was not formed until 1946.

Roger Chapman

By email Roger is correct, the wagon entered service for the GWR, passing to British Railways in 1948 before moving to industrial use with the NCB – Ed