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    ACCURASCALE HYA/IIA BOGIE HOPPER

    May 19, 2022 4 minutes
    Words & photography: Andy York

    Accurascale’s latest wagon arrivals are from a family with common heritage, but significant variations.

    These high-capacity wagons for imported coal traffic to power stations around the UK were built in several batches by IRS, Romania, and WH Davis, UK, between 2007 and 2011. Almost 400 were delivered for service across the network.

    TOPS coded HYA (later recoded IIA after the adoption of 12-digit UIC numbers), they were developed for First GB Railfreight from the EWS HTA by Thrall successor IRS, complete with track-friendly TF25 bogies, enabling GBRf to quickly start running coal trains and break the EWS/Freightliner monopoly of the business. Soon after the GBRf order, then new operator Fastline Freight also contracted

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