By the 1830s, railroads had been carrying containers that would be transferred to other modes of transportation. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway in the UK was just one of those, making use of "basic rectangular timber boxes" to Express coal from Lancashire collieries to Liverpool, where a crane transferred them https://shippingcontainersforsale45285.frewwebs.com/27370732/the-best-side-of-shipping-containers-for-sale