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Spanish Transfesa wooden bodied van 24 71 214 8 452-8 P at Dover 21st February 1988.  These wagons operated on the broad gauge RENFE system and had their wheelsets exchanged at the border for standard gauge ones.
 
 
 
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 Detail of Transfesa wagon 24 71 214 8 452-8 P. The anchor symbol within a rectangle indicates the wagon was registered to operate via the train ferry and could pass within the British loading gauge.
 
 
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Detail of the central section of Transfesa van 24 71 214 8 452-8 P.

 
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There doesn't seem to be much paint remaining on this section of Transfesa wagon 24 71 214 8 452-8 P.
  

 
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Another view of Spanish Transfesa wooden bodied van 24 71 214 8 452-8 P at Dover 21st February 1988.
 

       
 

Builder  
Introduced  
Design Code  
TOPS Code  
Load  
Tare  
Length  
Previous Number Series  

Westwaggon, West Germany
1959
ITE215
ITX
40 tonnes
13 tonnes
12960 mm
24 71 028 4 900 up to 988

 
       


 

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Transfesa railway wagon 24 71 214 8 434-6 P at Dover on 1st March 1989.
  
 
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Transfesa wooden bodied van 24 71 214 8 487-4 P at Dover on 21st February 1988.  The load can be clearly seen through the open ventilator hatches.

 
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Transfesa wagon 24 71 214 8 473-4 P at Dover on 1st March 1989.
    
 
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Transfesa wooden bodied van 24 71 214 8 478-3 P at Dover on 1st March 1989.
  
 
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Transfesa wooden bodied railway wagon 24 71 214 8 478-3 P at Dover on 1st March 1989.
 


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