373-502D BR HEA Hopper Wagon BR Bauxite No.360292 Stock-Alert-1 Plunger pickups

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but were used in service as-is for a time before being rebuilt

The 75 and its MG-badged ZT cousin have now acquired a strong following in the classic car world and values are increasing

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373-502D BR HEA Hopper Wagon BR Bauxite No.360292 Stock-Alert-1 Plunger pickupsThe HEA Hopper Wagons were introduced following the success of the HAA Coal Hoppers which were first used in the mid 1960s to deliver coal to power stations as part of the then new Merry Go Round (MGR) trains. The first wagons were built in the mid 1970s as HBAs, but as construction progressed, the design was changed, and the code HEA was used for later batches. The HBAs were subsequently modified to match the HEAs and recoded, giving a total fleet of