19850223_ZD_AdrianNicols
62 tonne Bogie Container Flat (end vehicle).
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE., Location : York NRM Warehouse Yard., Date : 08/07/2013., Type : Bogie Container Flat Wagon (end vehicle)., Weight : 62 t GLW / 22 t Tare., Number : 601652., Number Series : 601630 to 601653., Builder : 1971 by BR Ashford Works., TOPS Code : FGA., Designation : Freightliner Flat., Lot No. : 3765., Design Code : FG004E., , ADDITIONAL NOTES., Owned by the National Railway Museum but the wagon and its load are seen in a poor state of preservation. The Caboose I believe is the sole surviving Freightliner Guards Van no.09Z04. The fibre glass 10ft pod is seen on the end of a FGA Freightliner flat along with a 20ft container (08 L 43) introduced with the start of these trains in 1965. The Freightliner skeletal flats were formed in blocks of five with three inner vehicles and two outer vehicles, the inner vehicles having no buffers and just a fixed bar link. So sets would be formed FGA+FFA+FFA+FFA+FGA. When introduced they were something of a revolution with vast increases in carrying capacity seeing as they carried the new ISO containers being introduced within the shipping industry. Containers were 8ft wide and 8ft high and came in lengths of 10, 20 & 30ft. On introduction the first problem was where would the guard ride on such trains as the drivers union ASLE&F were against guards riding on the loco. Seven experimental guards caboose pods were introduced but after trials in service the NUR union blacked the 10ft container pods due to their diabolical ride characteristics as the wagons were 75mph and air flow under the pod caused it to jolt about because of its light construction. In the end a compromise solution was adopted and for a few years guards rode in a redundant suburban brake carriage attached to Freightliner trains. This practice was soon phased out when ASLE&F accepted guards riding in the rear cab of the locomotive. So with just seven guards caboose containers built this one should be in much better condition having been saved for the nation. They were constructed in two lots at Derby Works in 1965. Lot 3565 covered 99Z00-01 and lot 3572 covered 99Z02-06.
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