245034/1947 - Babcock & Wilcox No. P4937 - Industrial Green, with Wasp Stripes - DCC Sound Fitted Wagon Type_MDW 21 Ton Hopper HYA 371055

HYA 371055

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66190 was put to work almost immediately on a wide variety of freight work

B335539N   Spindle buffers         HOP 24 1/2 marking [route info blanked out]

It has been based at the Weardale Railway ever since

245034/1947 - Babcock & Wilcox No. P4937 - Industrial Green, with Wasp Stripes - DCC Sound Fitted Wagon Type_MDW 21 Ton Hopper HYA 371055Ruston 245034 was built new for the firm of Babcox & Wilcox Ltd in Refrewshire, leaving the works on 1 December 1947, where it was part of a fleet of 88DS utilised by the Boilermakers. The works opened in 1895 and covered 180 acres, one of the largest boiler making works in the world at the time, which was accessed from the 3 mile long Paisley & Renfrew line running from the east bank of the River Cart at Paisley to a wharf at Renfrew on the south