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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton
Marston Green Station: lnwrmg3917
View of the remains of some of the derailed wagons including
at least two British Railways Conflat A wagons. The term 'Conflat' is the
telegraphic code within the Great Western Railway's coding of railway wagons
for a container wagon. Unlike normal wagon loads, containers were only listed
to carry furniture or goods (unless they were refrigerated containers, which
carried frozen products kept cold by ice) which needed to be placed on a
specialist flatbed wagon which had train braking capability due to the fragile
nature of the products carried. The Conflat A, which could carry one type 'B',
or two type 'A', containers, was the most common; while the Conflat L, which
could carry three smaller containers for bulk powders, was also produced in
large numbers.
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