#3481
Covered carriage truck
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Doncaster Works· from 1959· two-axle rail vehicle with end doors, (originally carried horse-drawn carriages)
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. GreatCentralRailwayE94286: DuchessofSutherland at English Wikipedia· Public domain
- 2. British Rail Mk1 CCT: Geof Sheppard· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
Covered Carriage Truck was a type of railway van with end doors used for moving motor cars or parcel traffic. Four wheeled CCT were banned from Motorail services in the mid-1960s. These vans were designed to be used for carrying motor cars in Motorail but the tight clearances inside the body of the van and closing/opening of the end doors required much time and effort from staff.
who runs it
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 67 years ago, in 1959.
- Weighs about as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 11.3 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
carriage / wagon: Unpowered passenger coaches or freight wagons, pulled by a locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 1959
- in service from
- 1959
- number built
- 827
- kind
- carriage / wagon
- traction
- unpowered
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Doncaster Works
- operators
- British Rail
- top speed
- 113 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- length
- 11.3 m
- weight
- 17 t
- capacity
- 10 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5179228, Wikipedia: Covered carriage truck (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.