Diagram 64C 18ft Loco Coal Wagon to carry 10tons

This design is an 18ft version of Diagram 64, that is to say, it has no side, end or bottom doors so could only have been unloaded by hand or more likely by means of a wagon tippler such as the one installed at the Crewe mechanical coaling plant.

They were built as replacements for withdrawn D64 wagons from about 1909 onwards. This assertion is based on the 266 wagons of the 10ton type that were recorded in the 1919 table and counting backwards from that year which suggests that the change took place in 1909, shortly after the introduction of the 18ft goods wagons (D84) in 1907. However, the change may not have been clear-cut. In the 1909 WSABk, Folio 89, an annotation to the 1915 total of 44 off 10ton Loco Coal wagons built records, 23 of 18ft and 21 of 16ft. This is an isolated annotation, but if it were also to have occurred in adjacent years it suggests a period of mixed building, possibly to use up stocks of components, which would have had the effect of moving the start of 18ft construction a few years earlier. By the time of the LMS 1937 reference only 73 off D64C wagons were still in service.

Numbers are not known at present, but it is reasonable to assume that ex-D64 numbers were re-used

With no known photograph the above drawing reproduced from Earlestown drawing no. 939 dated 26.5.1915 [HMRS No. 1119] is the only means available to us of depicting a D64C wagon. In essence it is an 18ft version of the original loco coal wagon design, D64.