TOUAX Rail is a newcomer to the UK wagon scene, despite being a major hirer of intermodal stock in Europe, notably managing a fleet of more than 9000 container flats. Currently, its fleet of Netherlands-registered but UKbased IHA bogie covered steel coil flats are being retrofitted with new nylon hoods. Built in 2008/09 by International Railway Systems, Romania, to design code IHE 941 for then owner GE Rail Services, they are Nos. 37 84 4667 001-0 to 200-8.
Many carry Cold Reduced Coil (CRC) steel from Margam to the Tata facility at Shotton, Deeside. Employing nearly 700 people, the works produces more than half a million tonnes of annealed, galvanized and colourised strip coil each year. As privately owned John Summers and Sons, it was one of the first steelworks in the UK to use imported iron ore rather than locally mined ironstone. Trains ran from Bidston Dock formed of unbraked 46-ton capacity bogie hoppers Nos. 60-182 that were built in 1951-58 by Charles Roberts, Wakefield. Following nationalisation of the steel industry and roll-out of TOPS, they became PHOs Nos. BSSH 13060-182.