Conflat

Conflat is a United Kingdom railway term for a container wagon. For the vacuum flange, see Conflat (vacuum flanges).

History

'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 wagons were removed from service (as were the containers themselves) when more modern containers came into use.

Gallery

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  Conflat with tractor

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  Two Conflats at Ruddington

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  Conflats and BR Container

References

• Model Railway Site featuring some detail on Conflats

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