Railways of Australia Container Express or RACE was a slightly wider version of the standard
ISO
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Me ...
shipping
container
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Things kept inside of a container are protected on several sides by being inside of its structure. The term ...
able to take 2
Australia Standard Pallets side by side. More than 1,000 units were operated by the
Railways of Australia, an association of the government-owned railways which comprised
Australian National, the
State Rail Authority
The State Rail Authority, a former statutory authority of the Government of New South Wales, operated and maintained railways in the Australian state of New South Wales from July 1980 until December 2003.
History
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of
New South Wales
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,
Queensland Rail
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ways, the
Victorian
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State Transport Authority and
Westrail
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. These entities operated in Australia prior to privatisation of freight services.
History
The RACE containers were developed in 1974 in New South Wales by the
Public Transport Commission
The Public Transport Commission (PTC) was an agency of the Government of New South Wales responsible for the provision of rail, bus and ferry services in New South Wales, Australia from October 1972 until June 1980.
Upon dissolution, respons ...
, and built by Freighter Industries Ltd. The RACE general container was designed to accommodate 20 standard pallets stacked in two levels. Carrying capacity was and it had rear and side doors for ease of loading and unloading. There were also ISO RACE containers for non-palletised freight, as well as ventilated, refrigerated and side-loading containers.
[''Network'' April, 1978 Published by the Railways of Australia Committee p27]
See also
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Containerization
Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers, or International Organization for Standardization, ISO containers). Containerization, also referred as container stuf ...
*
Intermodal container
An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or a freight container, (or simply "container") is a large metal crate designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different Mode ...
References
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