malc-c
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Apologies in advance if this seems a silly question, but do container trains do multiple drop offs or do they do single transit form distribution point to distribution point or port? The reason I ask is because you often see these trains running half empty, and with randomly spaced containers. I video's one today the 462N London Gateway Frghtliner to Leeds F.L.T. and when it passed me near Stevenage the back half of the train was empty wagons other than the odd container or two near the rear. As far as I can see on RTT it hadn't stopped since departing London Gateway. Or is it simply that there wasn't enough containers to fill the train, but then why have them sporadically placed rather than just load the first 10 of the 20 or so wagons ?