4 Wheel Hopper Wagon Snailbeach District Railway Grey 32

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The Snailbeach District Railways ‘SDR’ was a Shropshire based narrow gauge railway built near the mines in the Stiperstones area. Its primary function was to transport lead ore from the mines to Pontesbury, where the ore was then transhipped to the GWR Minsterley branch line. In turn the SDR then transported coal in reverse, ending its journey where it started in Snailbeach. Shropshire’s largest and richest lead mine.

These hoppers were a main stay of the line, being pulled by Baldwin locomotives in their later life. Once the locomotives had been withdrawn, the wagons were then pulled by a Fordson tractor straddling the rails.

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