I'm reading an excellent book (Toton Engineman by John Henry Woolley ISBN 978-9927398-0-5) and on page 56 he writes "It was Wednesday June 13 1962 when I first fired for Driver Frank Winfield. We had signed on at 5.30 am for Willesden. The locomotive was a Stanier Class 8F 2-8-0 goods engine No 48319.
The train was nicknamed 'The Tin Trunks' - they were 40-ton hooper wagons code named 'LHZ'. They were part of a flow from the collieries at Mapperley to Stonebridge Park power station....."
Google throws up nothing with the code LHZ and there don't seem to be any photos of them in the book. Funnily enough, I was also given Marsden Rail 26 for my birthday and that has a couple of interludes taken at Ratcliffe on Soar and one of the trains consists of large hoppers I didn't recognise with a distinctive groove down the middle of the sides, which may be them.
Can anyone throw any light on his, please?
Keith