From 1928 the London, Midland & Scottish Railway offered "door to door" intermodal road-rail services using these containers. By modern standards these containers were small, being 1.5 or 3.0 meters (4.9 or 9.8 ft) long, normally wooden and with a curved roof and insufficient strength for stacking. In the United Kingdom, containers were first standardised by the Railway Clearing House (RCH) in the 1920s, allowing both railway-owned and privately-owned vehicles to be carried on standard container flats. Transferring freight containers on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1928 such containers, known as "lift vans", were in use from as early as 1911. A lack of standards limited the value of this service and this in turn drove standardisation. The early 1900s saw the first adoption of covered containers, primarily for the movement of furniture and intermodal freight between road and rail. By the outbreak of the First World War the Great Eastern Railway was using wooden containers to trans-ship passenger luggage between trains and sailings via the port of Harwich. In 1841, Isambard Kingdom Brunel introduced iron containers to move coal from the vale of Neath to Swansea Docks. Wooden coal containers were first used on the railways in the 1830s on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Coal containers (called "loose boxes" or "tubs") were soon deployed on the early canals and railways and were used for road/rail transfers (road at the time meaning horse-drawn vehicles). Some of the earliest containers were those used for shipping coal on the Bridgewater Canal in England in the 1780s. Intermodal transportation has its origin in 18th century England and predates the railways. A stagecoach transferred to a railroad car with a gantry crane, an example of early intermodal freight transport by the French Mail in 1844 The drawing is exhibited in Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum in Munich.
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