412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green Wagon Type_HYA Cutdown Hopper Timeframe specific details

Timeframe specific details

One of just three Deltics to never receive plated headcode boxes

Finally returning to the main line towards the end of 2015

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412427/1957 - Bowaters Northfleet - Industrial Pale Green Wagon Type_HYA Cutdown Hopper Timeframe specific detailsRuston 412427 was built new for Bowaters Packaging Ltd, for use at their newly expanded Northfleet site in Kent, leaving Boultham on 25 March 1957. The Thames Mills site at Northfleet had resumed producing newsprint at the end of 1945, with supplies of pulpwood coming from Canada and Scandinavia, and the manufacturing output had doubled by 1957. The pulpwood was unloaded from the ships berthed at the deep water jetty on the Thames and from there, the