ICI 19052 Bogie Steel Hopper Wagon
This ex-ICI bogie hopper wagon was designed and built by Charles Roberts & Co. of Wakefield in 1938 as wagon no. 3252. It was used to haul limestone traffic from the quarries at Tunstead, near Buxton in the Derbyshire Peak District, to the I.C.I. processing works at Northwich. For this 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. 19052 and LMSLondon Midland & Scottish Railway registration no. 151397. The official tare weight is quoted as 23 tons, with a load carried of 43½ tons.
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 was photographed in April 2015 stored in the ‘Bewdley Triangle’; the junction of the SVRSevern Valley Railway with the Stourport branch.
See also
References
Railway Heritage Register Wagon Survey
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. Locomotive Society Web Site
Severn Valley Railway Stock Book Ninth Edition
Links
19052 on vintagecarriagestrust.org
wagon info on Stanier 8F Society web site
