19850223_ZD_AdrianNicols
90 ton Bogie Aggregate Hopper Wagon.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE., Location : Kingmoor Yard Up Departure Sidings., Date : 10/06/2012., Type : Bogie Aggregate Hopper Wagon., Weight : 90 t GLW / 23 t Tare., Number : RMC 17232., Number Series : RMC 17225 to RMC 17249., Builder : 1990 RFS Industries Ltd, Doncaster Works., TOPS Code : JGA., Design Code : JG013A., , ADDITIONAL NOTES., RMC (Ready Mix Concrete Co.) operated several fleets of 90 tonne bogie hopper wagons for aggregate traffic although in recent years the entire fleet has been sold to EWS (now DB Schenker) hence the de-branding of the RMC logo. RMC's first wagons were the ex Hall Aggregate Co. wagons (HALL 13700-712) these were built in 1984 for the Newhaven to Crawley and Tolworth gravel trains with RMC taking over the business a few years later. These were later joined by two further builds, the first in 1986 and second in 1990 with RMC 17201-224 and RMC 17225-249 after RMC bought out Peakstone Ltd. The second two batches being used from their Peak Forest Quarry in Derbyshire to serve terminals at Washwood Heath, Ely, Bletchley and Selby. Since the cessation of the Newhaven traffic in the late 1980's the three batches have operated as a single fleet out of the Peak Forest Quarry in Derbyshire., , The wagon seen here in Kingmoor Yard had been detached with a defect from the irregular Shap Blue Quarry (Shap Summit) to Salford Hope Street aggregate terminal train which conveys grit stone on an as required basis for the road repair and road building industry.
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