88 ton Bogie Aggregate Hopper Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE.
Location : Newhaven Town Goods Yard.
Date : 05/06/1987.
Type : Bogie Aggregate Hopper.
Weight : 87.9t GLW / 22.4t Tare.
Number : HALL 13704.
Number Series : HALL 13700 to HALL 13712.
Builder : Standard Wagon Co. Heywood Works.
TOPS Code : PHA (later JGA).
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
Hall Aggregates (South Coast) Ltd had a fleet of 13 PHA wagons that were later coded JGA with a 65 ton capacity. They were built to operate from Newhaven to Crawley and Tolworth carrying sea dredged pea shingle or course sand. The wagons were registered to Hall Aggregates Ltd as can be seen on the yellow private owner wagon plate by the prefix to the wagon number HALL 13xxx, they carried RMC Aggregates branding as RMC was the parent company. Their use out of Newhaven lasted for 12 years (1984-1996). When the traffic ceased they were transferred to the Peak District where RMC had a second fleet of similar wagons working out of Holderness Quarry (Peak Forest) and the wagons became part of a common pool for the local stone traffic.
EWS bought the fleet in 2007 by which time RMC had been bought out by multinational giant 'Cemex' (Cement Mexico Ltd). The practice of buying private owner fleets was usually in an effort to tie the customer to one haulier. That wasn't strictly the case here though as EWS had provided a new fleet of Cemex branded HOA hoppers in 2007 to eliminate remaining 4-wheel hoppers and largely replace the ex RMC fleet, so the acquisition of the ex RMC bogie hopper fleet was part of the same deal (new for old). EWS then started to use the wagons in the South East again but this time on Mendip stone workings and so did DB after they bought out EWS. In more recent years their use has been more in the North West again carrying crushed glass between Tilbury Docks and Ince & Elton glassworks. They have increasingly been getting door reliability issues and are now life expired and starting to be withdrawn for scrap at Warrington.
88 ton Bogie Aggregate Hopper Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE.
Location : Newhaven Town Goods Yard.
Date : 05/06/1987.
Type : Bogie Aggregate Hopper.
Weight : 87.9t GLW / 22.4t Tare.
Number : HALL 13704.
Number Series : HALL 13700 to HALL 13712.
Builder : Standard Wagon Co. Heywood Works.
TOPS Code : PHA (later JGA).
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
Hall Aggregates (South Coast) Ltd had a fleet of 13 PHA wagons that were later coded JGA with a 65 ton capacity. They were built to operate from Newhaven to Crawley and Tolworth carrying sea dredged pea shingle or course sand. The wagons were registered to Hall Aggregates Ltd as can be seen on the yellow private owner wagon plate by the prefix to the wagon number HALL 13xxx, they carried RMC Aggregates branding as RMC was the parent company. Their use out of Newhaven lasted for 12 years (1984-1996). When the traffic ceased they were transferred to the Peak District where RMC had a second fleet of similar wagons working out of Holderness Quarry (Peak Forest) and the wagons became part of a common pool for the local stone traffic.
EWS bought the fleet in 2007 by which time RMC had been bought out by multinational giant 'Cemex' (Cement Mexico Ltd). The practice of buying private owner fleets was usually in an effort to tie the customer to one haulier. That wasn't strictly the case here though as EWS had provided a new fleet of Cemex branded HOA hoppers in 2007 to eliminate remaining 4-wheel hoppers and largely replace the ex RMC fleet, so the acquisition of the ex RMC bogie hopper fleet was part of the same deal (new for old). EWS then started to use the wagons in the South East again but this time on Mendip stone workings and so did DB after they bought out EWS. In more recent years their use has been more in the North West again carrying crushed glass between Tilbury Docks and Ince & Elton glassworks. They have increasingly been getting door reliability issues and are now life expired and starting to be withdrawn for scrap at Warrington.