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51 ton Covered Bulk Urea Hopper Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE., Location : Middlesbrough Goods Yard., Date : 09/04/1990., Type : Bulk Powder Covered Hopper., Weight : 51 t GLW / 16 t Tare., Numbers : ICIA 14156 to ICIA 14175., Builder : 1975 by Procor Ltd, Horbury Works., TOPS Code : PAA., Design Code : PA009B., , ADDITIONAL NOTES., ICI Agricultural Division had 20 of these covered bulk hoppers which were used to carry Urea from ICI Haverton Hill, Teesside to the Ciba-Geigy Works at Duxford, Cambridgeshire. When built in 1975 the fleet comprised 24 vehicles owned by Procor for leasing out, they were originally open hopper wagons for aggregate traffic and coded PGA but saw little use. This was possibly due to the fact they were longer than a standard PGA at 33ft vice 26ft for the same payload and had three sets of bottom doors vice two. So Procor sort alternative use for them and four vehicles, no's PR 14152-55 were rebuilt with covered tops for grain traffic emanating from the Derwent Valley Light Railway in Yorkshire. When this traffic ceased in 1981 the four covered hoppers were leased to Steetley Minerals for lime traffic out of Dowlow Quarry in Derbyshire. Around the same time (1980-81) Procor took the decision to rebuild the remaining 20 PGA hoppers with the same covered tops and sold them to ICI Ltd (Agricultural Division) for the new bulk Urea traffic between Teesside and Cambridgeshire., Ironically both sets of wagons were later reunited when the whole lot ended up operated by Cleveland Potash Ltd. The first to move were the four ex grain hoppers used for lime these went to Cleveland Potash at Boulby in 1987. The twenty ex ICI Urea wagons followed in 1989. The first four remained as leased vehicles with a PR prefix while the ex ICI fleet lost its ICIA prefix in favour of CPL (Cleveland Potash Ltd) the new owner but this was over time as maintenance overhauls fell due., In this image ICIA 14162 still carries its ICI dark blue and orange livery but is already in use carrying Potash. The wagons worked from Boulby mine to Middlesbrough Goods Yard or Tees Dock.

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