HAA Hopper BR Coal Sector - Era 8 Reader Offer The purple and white scheme

The purple and white scheme stood out from the crowd and was later applied to 47807 as well

F19 - Mute

Delivered in HST (Mk3) and loco-hauled (Mk3a) variants

The locomotive was also named East Lancashire Railway

40145 now carries BR green with small yellow warning panels and its original number D345 and continues in main line operation

HAA Hopper BR Coal Sector - Era 8 Reader Offer The purple and white schemeTransporting coal was central to Britains railways and bulk trains of coal continued into the twenty first century. Hornbys new TT: 120 scale HAA coal hoppers replicate an important prototype that will be at home on any model railway set from the 1970s onwards. Available now from the Key Model World Shop. By the mid 1960s, British Rail sought to modernise the haulage of coal for power stations and the need for efficiency resulted in the ubiquitous HAA