ARH Cement Hopper
(Experimental)
Brand new
ARH 5066. SRA
Archives photo.
A.E.Goodwin built this wagon in 1966 as a prototype to test the application of an aluminium grain hopper design for cement traffic. The parentage of the WH wheat hopper is very apparent. This hopper was later used as a basis for the design of the ARX cement hopper. The wagon is of aluminium construction, has 3 round ‘cement type’ roof hatches along its centreline and 4 hand-operated discharge doors.
Length: 11.43m Tare: 16t Gross: 75t Capacity: 59t Equiv Length: 1.9
Bogies: 2CG, later fitted with XCH and XCF bogies.
Coding:
- Originally coded ARH, but recoded NPAF after 1979.
- In 1983, it was pooled into the grain fleet and recoded NGCF.
- Last recoding was in 1989 when it became NGEF, to vacate the NGCF code for the ex ARX hoppers.
Similar Vehicles: WH wheat hopper, ARX cement hopper.
Colour Scheme:
- Unpainted aluminum with black bogies and lettering.
Period of Service: 1966 – Written off in 1992.
Operation:
It spent its last years marshaled with ARX hoppers working the Manildra grain shuttles in the north-west.
Modelling: No model is available and would have to be scratchbuilt from an AR Kits CH coal hopper kit.
‘A’ end and roof hatches of ARH 5066.
NGCF
5066 as a grain hopper, later in life at