"Continental" Covered Wagon No. 7031

Track Gauge: Standard (143.5 cm)

Wheel Arrangement: 4-Wheel

Maker: Metropolitan-Cammell, UK

Year Built: 1940

Use: General cargo

Overall Length: c. 8.95m

Tare Weight: c. 10.5t

Maximum Load: 20t

Hundreds of similar wagons built in Britain for the French national railway (SNCF) became useless when France fell to Nazi Germany, as they were built to Continental standards (French type OCEM 29).

The British army brought them to the Middle East, where they were known as the "Continental" type. Israel Railways inherited some 150, and operated most of them until the 1970s.