A versatile hopper

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Introduced 15 years ago, the HYA/IIA bogie hoppers were the final wagons to be bui

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Railways Illustrated Magazine

3 May 2022

Steam Days

London to glasgow city-to-city 175 years

The late 1830s and the 1840s was a period of intensive railway building, with the network expanding rapidly throughout the country, and a growing ambition was to create a through route from London to

Steam Railway

New-builds in focus

PART THREE

Rail

Much to admire… but pockets of neglect

Part two of PAUL BIGLAND’s All-Line Rover trip takes him to South Wales, then to England’s South Coast and onwards towards London, on trains battered by the elements… and teenage passengers