Four-Wheel Steel Side-Discharge Hopper Wagon No.82

A one-off wagon to this design was built as an experiment by Hudsons and Kitson Technical College during 1987, using the frame of a Hudson ammunition crate wagon, to provide a wagon capable of delivering ballast to the shoulders of the formation from a slowly moving train without arduous shovelling. That the FR only has the single example is no reflection of its usefulness; when first designed the FR was using several thousand tons of ballast each year and ease of handling was critical. By the time the wagon entered service the situation had changed and ballasting had dropped to only a few hundred tons a year.

Known as Hoppity Hopper.

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The Festiniog Railway, Preservation Era Drawings of Locos & Rolling Stock (Narrow Lines Extra No.12)(2005), Adrian Gray, 7mm Narrow Gauge Association, ISBN 0954981111

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Historic FR	Slate waggons Granite waggons Slab waggons Four-wheel side tipping waggon converted from 3-ton slate waggon Old FR four-wheel coal waggons Cleminson flexible six-wheeled waggon Covered goods vans Four wheel carriage truck Hearse van Brine tank waggon Weed-killing waggons Gun powder waggons Bogie waggons Bolster wagons Dandy wagons Brake vans
Historic WHR	Slate wagons 2-plank open wagons 3-plank open wagons Large open wagons Cleminson coal wagon Ridge-roofed covered wagons Tipping wagons Timber wagons Covered goods vans Brake vans
Other historic	LNWR slate wagons GWR slate wagons Rhosydd Quarry wagon 54 Penrhyn Quarry wagons Croesor Tramway iron wagons Maenofferen Tank Waggon Slab 25
"Modern"	Bogie Coal Wagons Locoals Fuel Tank Wagons Four-Wheel Fuel Tank Waggons Four-Wheel Modified Slate Waggons Four-Wheel Slate Or Slab Waggons Modified As Mobile Power Units Open Bogie Flat Waggons MoDs RAFs Ballast Bottom Hopper Discharge Four-Wheel Steel Side-Discharge Hopper Wagon No.82 Skips Hudson Crate Waggons New FR bolster wagons Flat wagon with crane The Cherry Picker Weed-Killing Waggons Mobile workshop set Van 58 Van 59 Torpedo Waggon Readymix Wagon B Wagons DZ Wagons DZ Flat Wagons DZ flat wagons converted to rail carrying bolster wagons WHR Tool Van South African Ballast Wagons The Romanian Ballast Wagon SAR Van EAG Wagons
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