'Freightliner'-liveried containers

[ChrisG62]

This might be useful:

https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brfreightlinercontainer?fpciidx=29

[hmrspaul]

Not sure why resurrected but this is the link https://PaulBartlett.zenfolio.com/brfreightlinercontainer

 

Paul

[Michael Hodgson]

Sorry if this has been asked and answered elsewhere, but is there some sort of inspection system under which rusty old containers are tested or examined to see if it is still safe to stack them twenty high on a boat which might be registered in some third world country that doesn't even have building regs for its mud huts?  Come to think of it, I don't think we've got regs covering mud huts.

[Titan]

Dunno, I thought that the max used to be five high, but it seems that they go now by total weight of the containers above, so heavy ones get put at the bottom and light/empty ones go on top.  If they get it wrong it can result in squashed containers though...

 

[KeithMacdonald]

Scalescenes containers?

https://scalescenes.com/product/t031-shipping-containers/

 

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Bonus 1970’s 30ft Freightliner containers

 

[lankyphil]

 

Spotted this in the crane lane at Garston FLT (Sept 20). FLLU prefix isn't registered for international use anymore, but given that it appeared to have come off a train, I'm guessing freightliner were using it for inter-site operations.

 

 

This is one of the old FL boxes that tends to move around Garston. Think they're basically stores boxes as far as I can tell

[lankyphil]

 

Spotted these in Freightliner at Trafford park. They look to be open tops, judging by the row of eyelets just below roof level, but with an end tipping door (hinged at top not sides)?

 

Edited July 11, 2021 by lankyphil

[Fat Controller]

50 minutes ago, lankyphil said:

 

Spotted these in Freightliner at Trafford park. They look to be open tops, judging by the row of eyelets just below roof level, but with an end tipping door (hinged at top not sides)?

 

I remember seeing one of those loaded with what appeared to be coke, at Chester General en-route to Holyhead. This would have been in the  late 1970s or early 1980s.

[Mol_PMB]

I don’t know if this counts, but it still exists at Irlam Locks on the Manchester Ship Canal. 

For my purposes I’d rather it was a Manchester Liners container, as I want to build one of them. 

Irlam Locks was where the brand-new container ship ‘Manchester Courage’ smashed through the lock gates and drained part of the ship canal. It happened in March 1969 and it took weeks to get the canal open again!

[Michael Hodgson]

19 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

Irlam Locks was where the brand-new container ship ‘Manchester Courage’ smashed through the lock gates and drained part of the ship canal. It happened in March 1969 and it took weeks to get the canal open again!

I was thinking I ought to remember that, but I'd finished my O levels by then and we'd already moved to Somerset.

[westie7]

On 25/08/2021 at 18:34, Mol_PMB said:

I don’t know if this counts, but it still exists at Irlam Locks on the Manchester Ship Canal. 

For my purposes I’d rather it was a Manchester Liners container, as I want to build one of them. 

Irlam Locks was where the brand-new container ship ‘Manchester Courage’ smashed through the lock gates and drained part of the ship canal. It happened in March 1969 and it took weeks to get the canal open again!

 

There's a similar one in the trees in the at the old Station at Pitcaple north of Inverurie. On the Aberdeen-inverness

[ess1uk]

Any of the photos still available for replacement?