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I haven't put much thought into this but if the British insisted in moving tanks around by rail in the 1930's is there any way of building a flatbed wagon that will give the tank designers a helping hand by reducing the restrictions placed on them by loading gauge and axle weight?

For 12 years I was a gauging specialist for a small company whose main aim was to extract the most out of the available UK network ... but most of it was based on computer simulated desktop studies.

My initial thought is some kind of 4 axle well wagon which would allow anything up to 80 tons with a max width of the tank being approximately 2.8m but allowing something taller than OTL possibly. This presumption is based on the W6 (the smallest gauge) ... anyway I'm rambling a bit now. Any thoughts anyone?
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