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Dapol 4F-037-009

Conflat & Container LMS K2

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Prototype Era
Era 3 (1923 to 1947) The Big Four (LNER, LMS, GWR and SR)

Manufacturer description

Containers 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 goods to be handled at each leg.

In the main they were used for furniture removal, although some were modified to be used with ice as refrigerated containers. Post nationalisation BR built over 20,000 conflat wagons and these continued into service until the arrival of the modern standard ISO containers in the 1960s.

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Prototype information

The Dapol Conflat & Container LMS K1 model is a scale representation of a type of British railway wagon used for carrying containers.

This OO gauge model has a length of 82mm, a width of 33mm, and a height of 48mm. It is designed to navigate curves with a minimum radius of 1.

The Conflat & Container LMS K1 model is built to represent a wagon that would have been constructed by the Great Western Railway's Swindon Works, and later by British Railways.

The model represents the Big Four period, which spanned from the grouping of the railways in 1923 to the formation of British Railways in 1948.