cctransuk Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 What do you make of the hopper in the left background of this shot - apparently loading the sludge from the water treatment plant? http://www.flickr.com/photos/52467480@N08/6438529485/sizes/o/in/set-72157628239543245/ My guess would be a pre-Grouping, SR constituent company, ballast hopper of some kind. Regards, John Isherwood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torr Giffard LSWR 1951-71 Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Hi John, I'd go for a cut down hopper to fit under the filler pipe seen to the right. Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 Hard to tell, but it could be a 13 ton coal hopper, built and adapted by BR from LNER designs. Diagrams 140 (wooden bodied), 142 and 144 cover this type. Not inconceivable to be relegated to sludge collection by 1966. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 LSWR 12 ton ballast hopper, SR D.1734. The last were withdrawn in 1956 so could have made it to 1966 as a sludge carrier. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted November 30, 2013 Author Share Posted November 30, 2013 LSWR 12 ton ballast hopper, SR D.1734. The last were withdrawn in 1956 so could have made it to 1966 as a sludge carrier. Thanks for that - I knew that in one of my wagon books I had seen something of this profile - and LSWR niggled at the back of my mind! Regards, John Isherwood. PS. Bill, you don't do etches for this hopper, do you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenBill Posted November 30, 2013 Share Posted November 30, 2013 A nice survivor... Did pre-grouping engineers' wagons ever receive "fish" telegraphic codes in BR days? Bill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 Great Western ones did........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Bill, you don't do etches for this hopper, do you? Southwark Bridge Models do: http://www.sbmodels.org/A02_12t_4wheelhopper.html Well, assuming that these are still obtainable; I haven't seen or heard of Ivan in a couple of years. A good spot that, thanks! Adam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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