90 ton Bogie Aggregate Hopper Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE.
Location : Carlisle Kingmoor Yard.
Date : 10/10/2010.
Type : Bogie Aggregate Hopper Wagon.
Weight : 90t GLW / 22.2t Tare.
Number : FLHH 17316.
Number Series : FLHH 17302 to FLHH 17324.
Builder : 1987 by W.H. Davis Ltd, Langwith Jn. Works.
TOPS Code : JGA.
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
Taken 20 years after the previous image, almost to the day (see previous image for details or below to compare).
Former RH Roadstone JGA hopper no.17316 was one of 23 from the original build of 27 to be sold to Freightliner Heavy Haul in 2006. The wagons were overhauled and repainted into Freightliner's green livery and I was under the impression they were never lettered with the company name (since proved otherwise see comments and linked image below). They were obtained for a new flow of clay sand which is a waste product from the china clay industry. The initial flows ran from Burngullow in Cornwall to Bow in East London but FLHH won further contracts for sand to Neasden in West London and the Bow traffic later switched to Angerstein Wharf in South London. When this traffic ceased the wagons found further use with FLHH in South Wales working out of Neath Abbey Wharf to destinations around London.
When I took this picture in Kingmoor Yard I never noted why they had arrived so far north, I suspect they were for a trial load of lime or gritstone out of either Shap Blue Quarry or Shap Beck Quarry but equally could have been used as brake force runners. To my knowledge the remaining vehicles are now stored or scrapped.
90 ton Bogie Aggregate Hopper Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE.
Location : Carlisle Kingmoor Yard.
Date : 10/10/2010.
Type : Bogie Aggregate Hopper Wagon.
Weight : 90t GLW / 22.2t Tare.
Number : FLHH 17316.
Number Series : FLHH 17302 to FLHH 17324.
Builder : 1987 by W.H. Davis Ltd, Langwith Jn. Works.
TOPS Code : JGA.
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
Taken 20 years after the previous image, almost to the day (see previous image for details or below to compare).
Former RH Roadstone JGA hopper no.17316 was one of 23 from the original build of 27 to be sold to Freightliner Heavy Haul in 2006. The wagons were overhauled and repainted into Freightliner's green livery and I was under the impression they were never lettered with the company name (since proved otherwise see comments and linked image below). They were obtained for a new flow of clay sand which is a waste product from the china clay industry. The initial flows ran from Burngullow in Cornwall to Bow in East London but FLHH won further contracts for sand to Neasden in West London and the Bow traffic later switched to Angerstein Wharf in South London. When this traffic ceased the wagons found further use with FLHH in South Wales working out of Neath Abbey Wharf to destinations around London.
When I took this picture in Kingmoor Yard I never noted why they had arrived so far north, I suspect they were for a trial load of lime or gritstone out of either Shap Blue Quarry or Shap Beck Quarry but equally could have been used as brake force runners. To my knowledge the remaining vehicles are now stored or scrapped.