Wagon types
39 types across 12 UIC categories. The capital letter in a code is the category; the lower-case letters qualify it — Sgns is a bogie flat (S) with container fittings (g), above-norm payload (n), cleared for 100 km/h (s).
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The workhorse of European intermodal. A 60-foot deck takes three 20ft, one 40ft or one 45ft unit. If you picture a European container train, you are picturing these.
- Payload
- 69 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 22.25 t
- Length
- 19.74 m
Sgns sibling with a differing stanchion and fitting arrangement. Interchangeable for most traffic.
- Payload
- 69 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 22.5 t
- Length
- 19.9 m
Articulated twin-pocket wagon for accompanied and unaccompanied road trailers. The pocket drops the trailer wheels far below the frame, which is the only reason a 4 m corner-height P400 trailer clears European tunnels.
- Payload
- 101 t
- Axles
- 6
- Axle load
- 22.5 t
- Length
- 34.2 m
Longer articulated pocket unit. Fewer couplings per metre of train means less slack action and a better payload-to-tare ratio on long runs.
- Payload
- 116 t
- Axles
- 8
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 45 m
Stanchioned flat for forestry traffic. Stanchions fold to allow side loading by grapple.
- Payload
- 68 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 22.5 t
- Length
- 19.9 m
Sliding-hood wagon with a coil trough. The hood keeps weather off the coil; the trough stops it rolling.
- Payload
- 64 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 22.5 t
- Length
- 14.2 m
Open coil carrier. Short and heavy — the load limit is reached long before the deck runs out.
- Payload
- 67 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 22.5 t
- Length
- 12 m
Older container flat. A higher deck than an Sgns, which matters on a restricted loading gauge.
- Payload
- 59 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 19.9 m
General-purpose bogie flat with folding stanchions.
- Payload
- 56 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 19.9 m
Stanchion flat for loads that need lateral restraint but no cover.
- Payload
- 55.5 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 19.9 m
Tarpaulin hood on a flat deck: weather protection with the full-length side access a van cannot give.
- Payload
- 53 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 19.9 m
Short, strong deck for dense loads where the mass limit arrives first.
- Payload
- 58 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 12.5 m
Extended deck for loads too long for a standard flat.
- Payload
- 54 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 24 m
The standard European open wagon. Doors at both ends and drop sides give loading flexibility that a hopper does not have.
- Payload
- 68 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 22.5 t
- Length
- 15.74 m
Predecessor to the Eanos with a lower payload. Still widespread in bulk pools.
- Payload
- 57.5 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 20.13 t
- Length
- 14.04 m
Two-axle open wagon for short hauls and wagonload traffic where a full bogie wagon would run half empty.
- Payload
- 28 t
- Axles
- 2
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 10 m
Gravity discharge through bottom doors. A rake can be emptied over a pit without uncoupling, which is what makes heavy-haul bulk economics work.
- Payload
- 66 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 22.5 t
- Length
- 14.04 m
Shorter hopper for dense minerals where volume is never the limit.
- Payload
- 62 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 21.25 t
- Length
- 12.54 m
Controlled-discharge hopper that places ballast to either side of the track for engineering trains.
- Payload
- 58 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 14 m
Hopper discharge with a roof over it: bulk that must stay dry, loaded from above and dropped from below.
- Payload
- 64 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 22.5 t
- Length
- 17.24 m
Whole side opens, so a forklift reaches every pallet without double handling. The reason sliding-wall vans displaced traditional vans for palletised traffic.
- Payload
- 53 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 24.13 m
Volume-optimised van for cargo that runs out of space before it runs out of weight.
- Payload
- 55 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 22.5 m
Two-axle sliding-wall van sized for single-wagon consignments.
- Payload
- 28 t
- Axles
- 2
- Axle load
- 21.5 t
- Length
- 15.5 m
The classic sliding-door box van. Largely superseded by sliding-wall types for palletised freight.
- Payload
- 28 t
- Axles
- 2
- Axle load
- 20.5 t
- Length
- 14.02 m
Insulated body without its own refrigeration. Most modern temperature-controlled rail traffic runs in reefer containers on a flat instead.
- Payload
- 25 t
- Axles
- 2
- Axle load
- 20.5 t
- Length
- 14.5 m
Mechanically refrigerated van. A shrinking fleet: reefer containers on Sgns wagons do the same job with road-rail flexibility.
- Payload
- 40 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 17.5 t
- Length
- 21 m
Two-axle stanchion flat for wagonload traffic.
- Payload
- 28 t
- Axles
- 2
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 13.86 m
Ks with fixed stanchions for loads needing permanent lateral restraint.
- Payload
- 27.5 t
- Axles
- 2
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 13.86 m
Two-axle container flat. Takes a single 20ft unit; used where traffic does not justify a bogie wagon.
- Payload
- 27 t
- Axles
- 2
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 13.86 m
Double-deck car carrier, loaded end to end by driving the vehicles on. Volume-limited: it hits its deck space long before its mass limit.
- Payload
- 25 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 12.75 t
- Length
- 27 m
Articulated double-deck car carrier with an adjustable upper deck for mixed vehicle heights.
- Payload
- 26 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 12.75 t
- Length
- 26 m
Sliding roof for grab or chute loading from above, side doors for discharge.
- Payload
- 26 t
- Axles
- 2
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 12.5 m
Bogie opening-roof wagon for weather-sensitive bulk.
- Payload
- 65 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 22.5 t
- Length
- 16.5 m
Pressure-discharge silo for dry powders. Loaded through top hatches, blown out through a pipe — the powder never sees the air.
- Payload
- 58 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 13.5 m
Larger-volume silo for light granulates, where volume binds before mass.
- Payload
- 56 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 15 m
Depressed-centre heavy-lift wagon. The well lowers the load to clear structures a normal deck never could — abnormal-load movements are planned path by path.
- Payload
- 180 t
- Axles
- 12
- Axle load
- 20 t
- Length
- 28 m
The standard European fuel tank wagon. RID rules govern what may travel in it and how the train is marshalled.
- Payload
- 65 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 22 t
- Length
- 15.7 m
Chemical tank with a lining matched to the product. Tank wagons are rarely interchangeable between products without cleaning.
- Payload
- 64 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 22 t
- Length
- 16 m
Pressure tank for liquefied gas. Dangerous-goods traffic with its own marshalling and placarding rules.
- Payload
- 66 t
- Axles
- 4
- Axle load
- 22 t
- Length
- 15.5 m