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Design/Diagram ID: | FG005A | In selection ?This works on your last-used designs selection, including any filters and sort orders. Buttons will not show if the current design was not in your last selection, or if you are at the beginning or end of the data set. | ||
Description: | Lowliner B Container Carrying Flat Wagon (60ft) | Overall ?This works on the overall designs list without any filtering or sorting applied. | ||
TOPS code: | FGA-F | |||
On Date: | c1974 | |||
Status: | Defunct | |||
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Source of information: | Diagram book on Barrowmore Model Railway Group website |
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04/02/1999 | LListing (e.g. in an ABC) | AExtant, Registered, Active | Click here for more details of this prefix |
601995 | FGA-F | FG005A | 9916 | Approved, auto/admin | ||||
01/08/1994 | LListing (e.g. in an ABC) | AExtant, Registered, Active | Click here for more details of this prefix |
601995 | FGA | FG005A | Approved, auto/admin |
Note added Tue 31/08/2021 by Thomas Young Category: Classification/Coding Design code FG005A was initially assigned to wagons 699002 and 699003, built in 1972 to diagram 1/136 and lot 3730. These formed the 'Lowliner B' set, a prototype for a new generation of container-carrying wagons. The Lowliner name was rather confusingly also used for the FZA 4-wheeled wagons intended to carry road vehicles. The 'Lowliner B' unusually had 6-wheeled bogies and the wagons were basically 60ft in length. There appears to have been a change of plan, with codes in the FGxxxx series to be reserved for standard Freightliner outer wagons. The FG005A wagons were changed to FHA-L and design code FH002A, although there was also a mention of them becoming FZ015A. It would appear that the FG005A design code was later re-used for 601995, an experimental double-ended Freightliner wagon built in 1981 and renumbered from departmental (research) number RDB998546 (YXA to YX039A) in 1990. Source: BR diagrams books on BMRG website |
Item added: | 12:00 on 01/01/2020 by Thomas Young |
Approval status: | Approved, auto/admin |
Item approved: | 01/01/2020 by Thomas Young |
Time / Date | Edited by | Change |
16:56 on Tue 31/08/2021 | Thomas Young | Improved description |