ICI 19129 Bogie Steel Hopper Wagon

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ICI 19129 Bogie Steel Hopper Wagon
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ICI Bogie Steel Hopper Wagon 19129
Built By Chas. Roberts, Wakefield
Status Unrestored
Number 3329
Other Numbers ICIM 19129, BRBritish Rail or British Railways(M) 183566 (reg)
History
Built 1952
Diagram 6/486
Type Bogie steel hopper
Capacity 48 tons
TOPS code PHV, JGV after 1990
Brakes Vacuum fitted
1994 Arrived on the SVRSevern Valley Railway

Goods Wagons

This ex-ICI bogie hopper wagon was built as wagon no. 3329 by Charles Roberts & Co. of Wakefield in 1952, part of the third and final batch of a design first introduced in 1938. These historically important wagons once formed part of the block limestone trains which ran up to seven times daily between Tunstead, near Buxton in the Derbyshire Peak District, and the I.C.I. processing works at Northwich, revolutionising the transport of bulk limestone. The wagons were intensively used and are believed to have accumulated mileages of between 3 and 5 million miles during their working life.[1]

It was given BRBritish Rail or British Railways TOPSTotal Operations Processing System, an American computer system adopted by BR from the late 1960s to number and manage rolling stock. no. 19129 and BRBritish Rail or British Railways registration no. 183566.[2] It had a capacity of 48 tons[3][4], although the SVRSevern Valley Railway Stock Book and StanierWilliam Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1932-1944 8FThe British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic. Society give a capacity of 1,230 cubic feet equating to 43½ tons. The TOPSTotal Operations Processing System, an American computer system adopted by BR from the late 1960s to number and manage rolling stock. code for this class of wagon was originally PHV, recoded to JGV in 1990.[5]

Motive power used to haul these wagons would have included StanierWilliam Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1932-1944 8FThe British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic. locomotives. The wagon is one of two acquired by the Stanier 8F Locomotive Society, although there is no record that 48773 was used to haul ICI mineral traffic. It arrived on 7 May 1994 and was photographed in April 2015 stored on the Stourport Triangle.

Sister 19052 was cosmetically restored in November 2020 and the Society appealed for further funds to enable volunteers also to cosmetically restore 19129[1].

See also

List of goods wagons

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 8F Society Hopper Appeal Fundraiser page (Retrieved 27 October 2021)
  2. ↑ StanierWilliam Stanier, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1932-1944 8FThe British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic. Society
  3. ↑ Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey
  4. ↑ Marsden (1984) p. 89.
  5. ↑ LTSV Wagons

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