7F-037-012W Conflat & Container C & Ayres 35 - Weathered Class-20 Rapido-style couplers

Rapido-style couplers

It has just two pairs of terminals

Introduced by the Great Northern Railway in 1921 to a design by Nigel Gresley

8 Height (CM) 8 Width (CM) 13

LENGTH 450mm

7F-037-012W Conflat & Container C & Ayres 35 - Weathered Class-20 Rapido-style couplersContainers and the special wooden decked conflat wagons used to convey them were produced in great numbers by all four of the railway companies. They allowed door to door deliveries via road, rail and road again without the requirement for the good to be handled at each leg. In the main they were used for furniture removal, although some were built with insulation for refrigerated use. Post nationalisation BR built over 10,000 containers which