HBN Ballast Hopper
HBN Ballast Hopper |
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| Class | HBN |
| Vehicle type | Bogie dual service ballast / grain hopper |
| First introduced | 1968 |
| To Port Lincoln | 1968 |
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| Load capacity | 34 tons |
| Number on Eyre Peninsula | 17 |
| Vehicle numbers | HBN1-17 |
New to Port Lincoln, delivered Aug-Oct 1968. Load 25 tons when new. Fitted with roller bearing bogies ex OMN wagons 1970, auto couplers ex ON wagons 1973-74, capacity increased to 34 tons. Equipped with tarpaulin supports and side gangways for dual use as ballast or grain hoppers. HBN12-17 to Tasmania Apr 1984 as QN class, later HQ class. HBN1-11 fitted with removable tops with rolltop hatches 1999-2000. HBN1-11 scrapped 2018.
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Five HBNs at Port Lincoln in the 1970s, in their tarped bulk grain guise. Photo: Denis Edlington |
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HBN9 at Kimba in September 1999, newly-fitted with a roll-top assembly. Photo: Peter Knife |
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All eleven remaining HBNs and a ballast plough in their ballast train guise, Port Lincoln, November 2002. Photo: Peter Knife |
