British Railways 24.5T HOP24/HUO Hopper Wagon

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£49.9

Originally produced in 1954 in a series of twelve separate manufacturing batches, some 5,263 24.5 ton capacity hoppers were built up until 1965. When coal was still king, they were tasked predominantly with coal traffic movements hauling coal and coke from collieries and coke plants to power stations and ports throughout Britain. Originally produced in 1954 in a series of twelve separate manufacturing batches, some 5,263 24.5 ton capacity hoppers were built up until 1965. Eleven of these batches were built at British Railway’s Shildon wagon works with the final batch constructed by outside sup

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British Railways 24.5T HOP24/HUO Hopper Wagon

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