Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Co.
About
The Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (GRCW) was a British carriage and wagon builder operating from a large works in Gloucester from 1860 until 1986. Founded as the Gloucester Wagon Company by John Pearce, the firm specialised in goods wagons but also built passenger carriages for many of the smaller and overseas railways that lacked their own carriage works.
For British Railways the firm built large numbers of mineral wagons in the 1950s and 1960s and several BR-era diesel multiple-unit (DMU) classes, including elements of the Class 100 and Class 119 'Cross-Country' three-car DMUs. GRCW closed in 1986 in the post-Beeching collapse of the British wagon market; the Gloucester site is now a retail park.