Introduced in 12 separate batches between 1954 and 1965, a total of 5,263 of these 24.5-ton capacity hoppers were built for British Railways (BR), with 11 of the batches constructed at the company’s Shildon wagon works and one – the last – built by Pressed Steel. The wagons represented by the Accurascale model are the 1/148 and 1/154 patterns assembled at Shildon from 1958 to 1962, which totalled 3,426 wagons. Originally designated ‘HOP24’, these hoppers were classified ‘HUO’ under BR’s Total Operations Processing System (TOPS) upon its introduction in 1973. Tasked mainly with hauling coal and coke from collieries and coke plants to power stations and ports throughout Great Britain, they displaced older open wagons from such services and are regarded as precursors to modern ‘Merry-go-Round’ (MGR) coal hoppers. They ran from 1954 to 1987, and many survived into private colliery and power plant use.
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They were used after their retirement from BR service in the NCB open cast mine Onllwyn in Wales, where they were deployed on an internal railway s...
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British Railways 24.5-ton HOP24 / HUO hopper wagon Three wagon multi-packB333635 Self-contained buffers HOP 24 1/2 marking [route info blanked...
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British Railways 24.5-ton HOP24 / HUO hopper wagon Three wagon multi-packfor Stella North/South Dunston/Blyth Power Stations B333897B334155B334160...
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British Railways 24.5-ton HOP24 / HUO hopper wagon Three wagon multi-packfor Kincardine Power Station B334429B334438B334548 Common features: Pack...
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British Railways 24.5-ton HOP24 / HUO hopper wagon Three wagon multi-pack [route info blanked out] B334949 B335039 B335703 British Railways 24.5-...
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British Railways 24.5-ton HOP24 / HUO hopper wagon Three wagon multi-pack for Thorpe Marsh Power Station B336817B336937B337128NCommon features: P...
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B333722 B333800 B334435 British Railways 24.5-ton HOP24 / HUO hopper wagon Three wagon multi-pack Common features: Pack of three wagons, each wi...
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B333837 B333905 B334176 British Railways 24.5-ton HOP24 / HUO hopper wagon Three wagon multi-pack Common features: Pack of three wagons, each wi...
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B334423 B335098N B335544 British Railways 24.5-ton HOP24 / HUO hopper wagon Three wagon multi-pack Common features: Pack of three wagons, each w...
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B335045 B335549 B335906 British Railways 24.5-ton HOP24 / HUO hopper wagon Three wagon multi-pack Common features: Pack of three wagons, each wi...
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B334539 B334576 BB335532 British Railways 24.5-ton HOP24 / HUO hopper wagon Three wagon multi-pack Common features: Pack of three wagons, each w...
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B335492 B336679 B336954 British Railways 24.5-ton HOP24 / HUO hopper wagon Three wagon multi-pack Common features: Pack of three wagons, each wi...
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Buy all 4 remaining pre TOPS HOP24 packs and get 12 wagons and a discount!Includes packs B,C,D and E
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A bundle of all 5 Triple Packs of HOP24 Hopper wagons in pre-TOPs liveries. BR 24.5T HOP24/HUO Coal Hopper - Grey pre TOPS- Pack A BR 24.5T HOP24/...
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Buy all 6 Triple packs of TOPs Hoppers (18 wagons) and get a discount! BR 24.5T HOP24/HUO Coal Hopper – Post 1965 Grey TOPS- Pack F BR 24.5T H...
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