NCB - Green and Grey - NCB - Pack O - Exclusive Mark 1 Coaches Palace Gates and Blackheath

Palace Gates and Blackheath

the bottom sections of any remaining wooden stanchions were removed

removable ‘greedy boards’ (horizontal board extensions to the body) to the Shildon Works built Chaldron

Five different body designs

NCB - Green and Grey - NCB - Pack O - Exclusive Mark 1 Coaches Palace Gates and BlackheathThe widespread withdrawal of 21t hoppers from the mainline network led to many being repurposed by BR or sold on to private companies for internal use. One such operator was the National Coal board who had a coal disposal site and washery at Gwaun Cae Gurwen, South Wales. The railhead was operated by Powell Duffryn Coal Preparation, and they required a fleet of internal user wagons for the transfer of coal around the site. During the early 1990s this