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[[<!--IMAGE FILE--> File: Ruston Hornsby 402812 Yellow PerilGWR_39860_20180825.jpg |thumb|centre|300px|link=<!--PAGE TO LINK TO--> Ruston and Hornsby Diesel Shunter 402812 Yellow Peril GWR 39860 'Conflat' Container Wagon |(Picture: David Cooke) "Yellow Peril" The GWR 'Conflat' was the smallest locomotive originally designed to work carry interchangeable wooden containers, which were secured using chains kept in pockets on the SVRside of the wagon. It 39860 was resident built at Swindon in 1935 and was last overhauled between 1975 2016 and 19812018. On one occasion the locomotive caught fire while working at Bewdley. An SVR driver was reported as saying "When working on it, you took your life into your own hands. It was a lethal machine!"[[<!--PAGE TO LINK TO--> Ruston and Hornsby Diesel Shunter 402812 Yellow PerilGWR 39860 'Conflat' Container Wagon| (Full article...)]]]]
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