Freightliner Container Flat

Freightliner Container Flat

The United Kingdom's first container trains ran between London and Glasgow un the mid 1960s. Freightliner Ltd, although a member of the British Railways board, is a seperate entity, British Rail having traditionally been contracted for haulage.
Originally intended to rationalise wagonload freight in the domestic marketplace, changes in road transport legislation, and also in maritime trade, have resulted in the use of the Freightliner concept primarily for water-going traffic.

The Freightliner vehicles are 60ft long and are semi-permanently coupled into rakes of 5 cars, though these fornations are not always strictly adhered to. The small wheel diameter of 2'8 gives them a profile low enough to carry containers of 8'6 height through the restrictive loading gauge of the British System.

The containers are 20ft, 30ft, or 40ft in length, meaning that different combinations of them can be transported on the 60ft vehicles. Maximum train length is 30 wagons. Today Freightliner operates a large fleet of locomotives on 70 services a day from the ports it serves at Southampton, Tilbury, Thamesport and Seaforth, to inland facilities throughout Britain.

This is an industry compatible version of the original Auran Freightliner container wagon that supports the loading of 20ft and 40ft containers. The original mesh, texture and artwork files were supplied by Auran.

Author: Chris Margetts (maggs)

Freightliner Container Flat
• config.txt 4.96KB
freightliner_container_flat_art
freightliner_container_flat_art_512.texture.txt 119 bytes
freightliner_container_flat_art_512.tga 1.00MB
freightliner_container_flat_art_icon.texture.txt 121 bytes
freightliner_container_flat_art_icon.tga 32.53KB
freightliner_container_flat_body
cont_flat_a.texture.txt 34 bytes
cont_flat_a.tga 96.04KB
cont_flat_b.texture.txt 34 bytes
cont_flat_b.tga 48.04KB
freightliner_container_flat_body.im 54.95KB
step1-step1_op.texture.txt 48 bytes
step1.tga 1.54KB
step1_op.bmp 1.55KB
step2-step2_op.texture.txt 48 bytes
step2.tga 1.54KB
step2_op.bmp 1.55KB
freightliner_container_flat_shadow
black.texture.txt 28 bytes
black.tga 812 bytes
freightliner_container_flat_shadow.pm 20.07KB