TRAIN FORMATIONS
For ease of transportation, mineral traffic started to be moved in hopper wagons to speed up loading and discharge. MARK CHIVERS offers up a selection of typical hopper train formations, spanning the 1950s right up to the 1990s.
DURING the 1950s and 1960s, rail was still the most effective way of transporting bulk freight throughout mainland Britain, especially large quantities of aggregates, coal and minerals.