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## About This Content
The CEA conversion was one of the later attempts to find a use for the large
numbers of HEA hoppers that were standing around with very little to do as the
requirements for domestic and industrial coal diminished. The CEAs were
converted in 1996 by the shadow privatisation company Loadhaul with a
retractable sheet that could be rolled back from ground level by attaching a
windlass to a spigot fitted to the under-frame. The sheet allowed the CEAs to
carry products which needed protecting from the weather or that may have had
issues with dust blowing off in transit. Interestingly a thin corner support
was added to the later build wagons at the time of conversion which led to a
little bit of confusion at one point in the development of this expansion!

Some 44 wagons were converted and they appear to have had questionable success
in traffic. Some commodities that the wagons have been noted carrying include
Limestone, Calcified Seaweed, China Clay, Petroleum Coke and Chipped Tyres for
use at Aberthawe Cement Works.

Following the sale of the three shadow privatisation companies to Wisconsin
Central the CEA hoppers became the responsibility of English Welsh and
Scottish Railway. The company was very pro-active in attempting to grow rail
freight across the United Kingdom, both in terms of block train and wagonload
traffic. EWS obviously saw some value in the CEA fleet and a large number
received a coat of EWS maroon along with new matching flexible covers.

Oddly, for such a small fleet of wagons the repainting wasn’t uniform and two
distinct styles appeared. In one case the wagons received EWS maroon on the
hopper body area only, the lettering and notices were in the same style
applied to the wagons when converted by Loadhaul and no EWS branding was
carried. Other wagons also received maroon paint on the top face of the under-
frame and on the buffer beams, EWS branding was applied and other lettering
above under-frame level was moved and applied in gold using Gill Sans.

The EWS CEA Covered Hopper Wagon Pack for Train Simulator includes:
* Branded and unbranded EWS liveries.
* Clean and weathered versions of both wagon body and livery types
* Loaded and unloaded versions with suitable physics. Other features include:
* ‘Intelligent’ tail lamps
* Animated hand brakes
* Body variation switching based on vehicle number as per the prototype.

The pack includes a user manual with further details about the rolling stock
and the customising of some of the features when using the wagons in
scenarios.

TS Marketplace: EWS CEA Covered Hopper Wagon Pack