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CDA wagon
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by British Rail Engineering Limited· from 1988· British railway freight wagon
what is it?
The CDA wagon was a type of hopper railway wagon used by British Rail, and then the privatised railway, to move china clay (kaolin) in South West England. The CDA was based on the same design as the HAA wagons which were used to transport coal, with the prototype CDA being a conversion of the HAA type. The wagons were used for 35 years being introduced in 1988, and withdrawn from use in 2023.
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 38 years ago, in 1988.
- 9 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 35 years (1988–2023).
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1988
- in service from
- 1988
- retired
- 2023
- status
- retired
- number built
- 139
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- British Rail Engineering Limited
- top speed
- 97 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 9 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q123200507, Wikipedia: CDA wagon (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.