38-144C BR VDA Van BR Railfreight Red & Grey No.200819 - Weathered wagon allowing them to work over

allowing them to work over non-electrified routes and into sidings and yards where there isn’t a third rail power source

The E3s had small wheels and were intended for Goods work

and also the most numerous units in the Desiro UK family

brakes and

38-144C BR VDA Van BR Railfreight Red & Grey No.200819 - Weathered wagon allowing them to work overThe VDA van was a development of British Rails Cov AB air braked van which was first introduced in the late 1960s, with the VDAs entering traffic from 1975. Sharing the same 20ft 9in wheelbase as the original Cov ABs, the VDAs not only had sliding doors to allow the sides to be fully opened for loading unloading but these doors could also be opened individually as cupboard doors to allow quicker access to just one internal area. The vans entered