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From:

https://www.ft.com/content/c2b51fd2-f19f-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195?segmentId=080b04f5-af92-ae6f-0513-095d44fb3577

One of the Britain’s busiest railway stations is set to take on a new role
as a freight hub as part of a plan to shuttle goods to central London from
a container port using old passenger trains.


Have I understood this right?

someone is going to take a container of stuff from the port

transfer the contents of it onto a converted passenger carriage individual
"units" at a time, presumably through side door(s)

and then at the other end empty the passenger carriage by individual units
onto little trucks

What size of individual unit is this going to work for?


Probably some sort of roll-on cages or containers that can get through the
train doors and on to electric vans. The cages may be towed as a train
along the platforms.

In the 2014 demonstration run:

The train was formed of former First Great Western motor-rail car carriers,
which are suitable for carrying traffic in roll cages; these had previously
been used for another trial with Stobart in 2012, delivering perishable
food for six Sainsbury’s stores.

For the latest trial, TNT delivered the roll cages to Colas Rail's Rugby
depot, where the transfer from road to rail took 20 min. After a 132 km
trip, the train arrived at Euston at 02.38, and the goods were transhipped
into a fleet of TNT electric and low-emission road vehicles in less than an
hour.

https://www.railwaygazette.com/freight/colas-rail-and-tnt-test-express-rail-logistics/39578.article