GWR Container, the Glossary
Between WWI and WWII, the Great Western Railway developed the use of containers that could be packed and locked at a client's premises, taken by lorry to a station, then carried by train and again by lorry to the final destination.[1]
Table of Contents
6 relations: Conflat, David & Charles, Great Western Railway, Intermodal container, Tare weight, The Sydney Morning Herald.
- Great Western Railway
Conflat
Conflat is a United Kingdom railway term for a short wheelbase flat wagon container wagon. GWR Container and Conflat are United Kingdom rail transport stubs.
David & Charles
David & Charles Ltd is an English publishing company.
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Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales.
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Intermodal container
An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply “container”) is a large metal crate designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – such as from ships to trains to trucks – without unloading and reloading their cargo.
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Tare weight
Tare weight, sometimes called unladen weight, is the weight of an empty vehicle or container. GWR Container and Tare weight are containers.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.
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See also
Great Western Railway
- Alderton Tunnel
- Baulk road
- Black Lake Tunnel
- Box Tunnel
- Brownqueen Tunnel
- Chalfont Viaduct
- Chipping Sodbury Tunnel
- Cogload Junction
- Dowery Dell Viaduct
- GWR Container
- GWR pagoda platform shelter
- GWR road motor services
- Great Western Railway
- Great Western Railway War Memorial
- Great Western Railway ships
- Great Western Railway telegraphic codes
- Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot
- List of Great Western Railway heritage sites
- Llanelli riots of 1911
- Lostwithiel signal box
- Malmaison Hotel, Reading
- Middle Circle
- Par signal box
- Queen's Building, Wolverhampton
- Railway Air Services
- Railway pay cheque
- Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway
- Shipston-on-Stour branch
- Snow Hill tunnel (Birmingham)
- Sonning Cutting
- South Devon Banks
- St Blazey engine shed
- St Mark's Church, Swindon
- Stratford on Avon Railway
- Swindon Works
- Totnes Signal Box
- Tregenna Castle
- Wharncliffe Viaduct
- Wolverhampton railway works