🚆 Dapol Announce New Run of O Gauge HAA Hoppers

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Dapol have announced a new batch of HAA hopper wagons in O Gauge!


Four new variations are in production, in a choice of either Railfreight red or brown liveries - with new running numbers separating these from previous releases.


This new batch is due to arrive during Q2 2025, alongside the newly tooled MHA Coalfish hoppers.

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Product Features

Extremely detailed and accurate body shell and diecast chassis

Many separately added fine details· Sprung metal buffers

Functioning instanter couplings

Metal sprung coupling hook and metal screw coupling

Finely profiled wheels and axles with brass bearing pockets

Superbly applied livery

Prototype Information

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Image by Steve Jones

The fleet of MGR wagons were produced to form block trains of hoppers which both loads and unloads its cargo whilst still moving. They were most commonly used for the delivery of coal to power stations. They were one of the few innovations of the Beeching Axe and were introduced in the 1960s. A vast number of wagons were built and saw use across the UK. Locomotives used with MGR wagons had to be fitted with special electronic speed control equipment that allowed the driver to keep the train steady at a very low speed to aid in the loading and unloading process. The decline of the UK mining industry in the 1980s contributed to making many of these wagons redundant and higher capacity coal hoppers replaced many in the early 2000s. The final MGR working was to Hope Cement Works in August 2010.


(Information provided via Wikipedia) 

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