LNWR Carriage Diagrams

The information in these pages is derived from David Jenkinson's An Illustrated History of L.N.W.R. Coaches and L&NWR Non-Corridor Carriages by Philip A. Millard and Ian Tattersall. These books in turn used information from the the 1915 Diagram Book. Earlier Diagram Books (1895 and 1903) had different page numbers for the same vehicles (ignoring the considerable further complexities of changes in compartment class designations). Some vehicles disappeared before 1915 and only appear in the earlier books. Relating these earlier books to the 1915 one is not at all easy.

Diagram lists for Bogie Corridor Carriages start with arc roof stock, through cove roofs to elliptical roofs and then toplights.

Diagram lists for Bogie Non-Corridor Carriages again start with arc roof stock, through cove roofs to elliptical roofs and then toplights.

Diagrams are listed in descending order of totals - the most numerous Diagrams therefore appearing at the top. For convenience the BR carriage notation system is used as a convenient shorthand to identify vehicle types though this sytem wasn't of course used by the LNWR. For example TK denotes a Corridor Third, BCK a Corridor Brake Composite, T a non-Corridor Third, and so on.

Where relevant West Coast Joint Stock carriage Diagrams are included in these lists in separate tables.

Lists of LNWR Diagrams by Type have also been prepared.

If you want to identify a particular carriage, typically this would be in a photograph, then you may find the Carriage Identification page useful.