As domestic and industrial coal traffic dwindled during the 1980s increasing numbers of relatively new HEA coal hoppers were to be found sitting in marshalling yards without any traffic to carry.

Some 44 wagons were converted by Loadhaul during 1995 by fitting a retractable flexible cover operated by a windlass at solebar level. Following privatisation the hoppers became the responsibility of English, Welsh and Scottish Railway who repainted a number of them in their own livery albeit in a couple of different variations.

This Train Simulator expansion features CEA covered hoppers converted from both body variations of HEA hopper in two different versions of EWS livery.