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Saturday, May 17, 2025

Coalfish!

One of the things, or just in case Mrs. Woody is reading this I will rephrase that to, one of the few things that I bought at the Market Deeping Model Railway Show was a pack of three Hornby wagons. Following on from various fish references over the past couple of weeks, these are models of the MHA Coalfish wagon and these ones are in EWS livery. 

Hornby R6928 MHA Coalfish Wagon

I already have several of these, all bought second hand or pre-loved according to your taste, so should now have a suitably significant rake or indeed shoal of these.

Hornby R6928 MHA Coalfish Wagon

They are a comparatively modern wagon in a way as the bodies were designed to carry ballast spoil from maintenance jobs.

Hornby R6928 MHA Coalfish Wagon

Built during the 1990s, they used the chassis from redundant HAA hopper wagons used on the merry go round coal deliveries to power stations.

Hornby R6928 MHA Coalfish Wagon

And if you are wondering if there is a coalfish, yes there is (related to Pollock), but these Coalfish wagons were actually named that because their chassis previously carried coal hoppers! 





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