IF the HYA/IIA bogie coal hopper wagon story tells us anything, it is not to take anything on the railways for granted, not even when it is new. The sudden change of the Carbon Tax regime in 2015 almost instantly sidelined most of the relatively new 368 HYA/ IIA wagons as coal traffic plummeted. Redeployment as aggregate hopper wagons was less than successful, prompting VTG to look at shortening some of the fleet by removing the middle hopper bay.
Introduced in 2016, the first chopped wagon was coded HYA (as are
