Hopper Wagons
The sub-title "Hopper" was applied to nine different types of LNWR wagons. Many of the designs so recorded in the 1903 Wagon Diagram Book concerned relatively few vehicles, although apparently they warranted a separate identity in the book. A complete list of all nine designs is as follows:
| Dia. No. | Diagram Book Description | Quantity in
1919 list |
| 28 | Hopper Coal Wagon (WEST CUM) 15ft 10tons | 53 |
| 29 | Hoppered Coke Wagon (WEST CUM) 16ft 10tons | )
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| 30 | Hopper Wagon, Railed for Coke (WEST CUM) 15ft 10tons |
| 30A | Coke Wagon, Hoppered (WEST CUM) 16ft 10tons |
| 44 | Hopper Coal Wagon, 15ft 10tons (some ‘Cleator District’) | 1455 |
| 44A | Hopper Coal Wagon, 16ft 10tons | Included in above |
| 64A | Loco Hopper Wagon 16ft 10tons | 1 |
| 64B | Loco Hopper Wagon 18ft 15tons | 568 |
In 1902, D28 "Coal Wagons W.C. District" and D29 & D30, "Coke Wagons W.C. District (Hoppered)", amounted only to 53 and 131 wagons respectively compared with 1455 wagons to the D44 design. Consequently only D44 and D44A wagons will be considered further in this article together with Diagram 91, Hopper Wagon (Steel) for carrying Iron Ore. The 16ft 20 ton Loco Coal hopper wagons, Diagrams 64A, 64B are described under the Loco Coal wagon section. A more detailed article on all of these hopper style wagons was published in L&NWR Society Journal Vol.4 No.1, pages 16 to 23, June 2003 and Vol.4 No.2, pages 74-5, September 2003.
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