90 to Bogie Aggregate Hopper Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE.
Location : Radyr Wagon Works, PD Engineering Ltd.
Date : 11/10/1990.
Type : Bogie Aggregate Hopper Wagon.
Weight : 90t GLW / 22.2t Tare.
Number : RHR 17316.
Number Series : RHR 17301 to RHR 17327.
Builder : 1987 by W.H. Davis Ltd, Langwith Jn. Works.
TOPS Code : PHA (later JGA).
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
27 of these high set discharge bogie aggregate wagons were built in 1987 for RH Roadstone Ltd. They copied a design first used by the builder W.H. Davis in 1983 for Murphy Aggregates Ltd. The similar 'Marcon' wagons were used for sand and gravel traffic in South East London and Kent and the high set discharge could permit a lorry mounted conveyor to be placed under the doors to offload to a stockpile rather than build expensive bottom discharge pits.
RH Roadstone was a joint venture company formed in 1973 between Redland Roadstone Ltd and Hoveringham Stone Ltd. They had extensive limestone quarries in the Mendip Hills with two, Asham and Westdown but neither were rail connected so all product to rail had to go by road to Whatley. By the time these wagons were built RH Roadstone had been sold to Tarmac so a strange choice to letter the wagons as they did. Their initial use was on a convoluted circuit working carrying different products on each leg or each direction. These were limestone dust (often referred to as Meldon Dust), fine chippings or sand. It's unusual for wagons of this type to carry different products in either direction as there is always a risk of contamination. From what I gather the circuit was Cliffe Hill - Marks Tey / Marks Tey - Whatley / Whatley - Marks Tey / Marks Tey - Cliffe Hill. Enough were built for two sets to operate at one time but I've not been able to confirm any of these trains in the relevant working timetables so they might have been short term or as required trains. The fact they weren't designed to carry bulk stone and were intended for finer grade aggregates is probably the reason that within 3 years most of the fleet was stored out of use. They did make a return to service working out of Redland Roadstone Ltd, Mountsorrel Quarry by 1995 but it was short lived. Since then they have show up on all manor of ad-hoc workings like Pumice stone from Hull Docks to Allington and reduced slag from Port Talbot to Godstone. More recently Freightliner Heavy Haul bought 23 of them in 2006 for sand traffic from Cornwall, they then passed to Eversholt leasing for short term hire to GBRF but they have now all been scrapped.
90 to Bogie Aggregate Hopper Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE.
Location : Radyr Wagon Works, PD Engineering Ltd.
Date : 11/10/1990.
Type : Bogie Aggregate Hopper Wagon.
Weight : 90t GLW / 22.2t Tare.
Number : RHR 17316.
Number Series : RHR 17301 to RHR 17327.
Builder : 1987 by W.H. Davis Ltd, Langwith Jn. Works.
TOPS Code : PHA (later JGA).
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
27 of these high set discharge bogie aggregate wagons were built in 1987 for RH Roadstone Ltd. They copied a design first used by the builder W.H. Davis in 1983 for Murphy Aggregates Ltd. The similar 'Marcon' wagons were used for sand and gravel traffic in South East London and Kent and the high set discharge could permit a lorry mounted conveyor to be placed under the doors to offload to a stockpile rather than build expensive bottom discharge pits.
RH Roadstone was a joint venture company formed in 1973 between Redland Roadstone Ltd and Hoveringham Stone Ltd. They had extensive limestone quarries in the Mendip Hills with two, Asham and Westdown but neither were rail connected so all product to rail had to go by road to Whatley. By the time these wagons were built RH Roadstone had been sold to Tarmac so a strange choice to letter the wagons as they did. Their initial use was on a convoluted circuit working carrying different products on each leg or each direction. These were limestone dust (often referred to as Meldon Dust), fine chippings or sand. It's unusual for wagons of this type to carry different products in either direction as there is always a risk of contamination. From what I gather the circuit was Cliffe Hill - Marks Tey / Marks Tey - Whatley / Whatley - Marks Tey / Marks Tey - Cliffe Hill. Enough were built for two sets to operate at one time but I've not been able to confirm any of these trains in the relevant working timetables so they might have been short term or as required trains. The fact they weren't designed to carry bulk stone and were intended for finer grade aggregates is probably the reason that within 3 years most of the fleet was stored out of use. They did make a return to service working out of Redland Roadstone Ltd, Mountsorrel Quarry by 1995 but it was short lived. Since then they have show up on all manor of ad-hoc workings like Pumice stone from Hull Docks to Allington and reduced slag from Port Talbot to Godstone. More recently Freightliner Heavy Haul bought 23 of them in 2006 for sand traffic from Cornwall, they then passed to Eversholt leasing for short term hire to GBRF but they have now all been scrapped.