Preserved rolling stock
![[Railway coach]](hbrimages/coach-restoration-ladder.jpg "H&BRSF members restoring an historic railway coach")
Most of the Hull & Barnsley Railway Stock Fund's historic rolling stock is located at Goathland on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, which runs from Pickering to Grosmont in North Yorkshire.
Regular working parties are arranged for members to carry out restoration activities; get in touch if you would like to join in.
Coach 58
![[Coach 58 at Goathland]](hbrimages/coach58.jpg "Coach 58 at Goathland")
A six-compartment corridor lavatory brake third, built by the Birmingham Carriage & Wagon Co in 1909. Originally number 5, it later became 58, 5058, 25058 and DE320362.
Coach 58 was bought from Springhead works in Hull by the H&BRSF in 1968.
Coach 40
This coach has been a star of several film and television productions, including 'South Riding', 'When the Boat comes in', 'Secret Garden', 'Carrington' and 'A Month in the Country'. However, its most famous role was in 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', starring Jeremy Brett. The carriage appears several times in the drama, but is centre stage for the scene in which Holmes and Watson step into the coach at Levisham station, only to step out onto the track at the other side.
It is a six-compartment brake third, built in 1907 by RY Pickering & Co. Originally number 2, it later carried the numbers 40, 5040, 25040, 23660, and DE320292.
The coach was in departmental use at York before being purchased by the H&BRSF in 1969.
Engineers' tool van No.2
![[Van 2 at Goathland]](hbrimages/hbr-van2-end.jpg "The tool van at Goathland")
This four-wheel van was built by the Metropolitan Carriage & Wagon Company in 1885, for use with the H&BR's breakdown train. It has also carried the numbers 8, 5008 and 901622.
The van was bought by the H&BRSF in 1974, at which time it was oldest vehicle still at work on British Rail.
Wagons
The H&BRSF owns two wagons which were used for many years to carry coal from South Yorkshire to Hull docks. Imported timber and general cargo were carried on the return journey. The wagons were purchased by the H&BRSF from Tyne Commission Quay in Newcastle in 1969 and brought to the North York Moors Railway for use on works trains.
In 1999 their wooden superstructures were rebuilt, with the wheels and all the original ironwork were retained. Both wagons are now housed in the goods shed at Goathland, where they contain seating for the station cafe.
Open wagon 3697
![[Wagon 3697]](hbrimages/hbr-wagon-3697.jpg "Wagon 3697 in use as cafe seating in the goods shed at Goathland")
This four-wheel wagon was built in 1905 by Charles Roberts & Co of Wakefield. It has been fully restored for diplay in Goathland goods shed, and now carries the H&BR's Continental route via Hull marketing slogan.
Open wagon 577
A four-wheel wagon built in 1886 by the Ashbury Railway Carriage & Wagon Co in Manchester.
Timber bolster
![[Bolster wagon]](hbrimages/hbr-timber-bogie.jpg "Timber bolster on display in Hull")
This timber bogie is the last survivor of several hundred built for use in Hull's docks between 1870 and 1939. By the 1950s they were concentrated at Victoria Dock, the centre of the city's timber trade.
The bogies were designed to carry 7 tons of timber each, stacked on three cross-members and roped down to the hooks on either side. The iron-bound dumb buffers are not normal railway standard height or width. To assist in moving the bogies around around small shunting locomtives were fitted with additional dead buffers or deeper buffer beams. The London & North Eastern Railway later introduced road tractors fitted with steel buffer beams and chain links at either end.
The timber bogie is now on loan to the Streetlife transport museum in Hull, where it is on display.
Coach 1
![[Coach 1 in storage in Wales]](hbrimages/coach1.jpg "Hull & Barnsley Railway coach number 1")
This coach does not belong to the Stock Fund, but is currently stored in South Wales. It is planned that it will return to Hull when the Streetlife Museum has space for it.
There is also a 10-ton five-plank 11' wheelbase H&BR wagon at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. Number 6 was built in 1895, rebuilt in 1922, and later sold to Foster Mills in Cambridge.
Get in touch if you would like to join in with restoring these historic vehicles.