ICI 19052 Bogie Steel Hopper Wagon

ICI 19052 Bogie Steel Hopper Wagon
ICI Bogie Steel Hopper Wagon 19052 carrying number 3252 at Kidderminster 30 November 2020.
Built By	Chas. Roberts, Wakefield
Status	Unrestored
Number	3252
Other Numbers	ICIM 19052, LMSR 151397 (reg)
History
Built	1938
Diagram	6/486
Type	Bogie steel hopper
Capacity	48 tons
TOPS code	PHV, JGV after 1990
Brakes	Vacuum fitted
1994	Arrived on the SVR
Goods Wagons

This ex-ICI bogie hopper wagon was 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 BR TOPS no. 19052 and LMS registration no. 151397. It had a capacity of 48 tons, although the SVR Stock Book and Stanier 8F Society give a capacity of 1,230 cubic feet equating to 43½ tons. The TOPS code for this class of wagon was originally PHV, recoded to JGV in 1990.

Motive power used to haul these wagons would have included Stanier 8F 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 16 May 1994 and was stored on the Stourport Triangle. It is photographed following repainting in November 2020.

See also

List of goods wagons

Links

• 19052 on Railway Heritage Register On-Line
• Wagon info on Stanier 8F Society web site
  
• 8Fs, hopper wagons and the ICI limestone traffic, Meccano Magazine, December 1947