An open wagon (or truck in the UK) forms a large group of railway goods wagons designed primarily for the transportation of bulk goods that are not moisture-retentive...
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Railroad car (redirect from Railway wagon)
railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train...
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A station wagon (US, also wagon) or estate car (UK, also estate) is an automotive body-style variant of a sedan with its roof extended rearward over a...
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goods wagons were four-wheeled (two wheelset) vehicles of simple construction. These were almost exclusively small covered wagons, open wagons with side-boards...
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British Rail departmental wagons are wagons used by British Rail and their successors Railtrack and Network Rail for departmental purposes. Many vehicles...
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October 2024. "BR B 725540 Goods Wagon built 1959". www.ws.rhrp.org.uk. Retrieved 19 October 2024. "BR B 726064 Open Wagon built 1959". www.ws.rhrp.org.uk...
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goods wagon and, for example, comprised about 40% of the German railways goods fleet until the 1960s. Since then however the open wagon and flat wagon have...
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Verbandsbauart (redirect from DSV wagon)
Verbandsbauart describes both a type of goods wagon as well as a type of tram. In order to standardise the goods wagons classes of the various German state railways...
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of wagon. There are 243 types of rolling stock used for cargo operations. These include covered wagons, boxcars, flat wagons, flatbeds, open wagons, hoppers...
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districts. In 1902 the company owned 59,036 wagons, and by 1926 this had risen to 88,580. The first wagons were just open boxes but covered vans were added from...
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superstructure. By contrast, open wagons have high side and end walls and covered goods wagons have a fixed roof and sides. Flat wagons are often designed for...
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A mineral wagon or coal truck (British English) is a small open-topped railway goods wagon used in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to carry coal, ores...
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came the swing-roof wagon which enabled the entire loading area to be opened up by swinging the roof out on the longer side of the wagon. Its disadvantage...
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The system of German railway wagon classes (Wagengattungen) was introduced in Germany in 1902 and 1905 by the Prussian state railways based on their system...
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railway goods wagon (less those in classes F, H, L, S or Z) into Class U in its goods wagon classification system. These are: Bulk goods wagons for transporting...
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of both 4-wheel and bogie open wagons for the transport of a wide range of loads. The first open wagons were 4-wheel wagons of all-wooden construction...
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Ukrainian: тачанка) was a horse-drawn cart (such as charabanc) or an open wagon with a heavy machine gun mounted on the rear side. A tachanka could be...
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short open wagon (O) types were not longer up-to-date, so that no A6 wagons and only 32 A1 wagons were made. Also outmoded were the cradle wagons (A5)...
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"Wagon Wheel" is a song co-written by Bob Dylan, and Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show. Dylan recorded the chorus in 1973; Secor added verses 25 years...
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grains, fuel, and various powders. As a general rule, a hopper wagon involves an open frame with sloped sheets, giving a wider area at the top and a smaller...
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Chuckwagon (redirect from Chuck wagon)
wagon is a horse-drawn wagon operating as a mobile field kitchen and frequently covered with a white tarp, also called a camp wagon or round-up wagon...
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truck that was first produced in 1931 and resembled a motorcycle with an open wagon or truck bed. It entered the market on 3 October 1931. It was the first...
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an LMS design. B490310 12-ton LNER (BR-built) open wagon. Built in 1952. M407942 12-ton LMS open wagon. Built in 1937. 321734 Ex Ruston "88" underframe...
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157787, due to the mass amount of vans and minuscule open wagons, the MSLR built a replica open wagon to a GER design in 2012. Vertical boiled Belgian steam...
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An ox-wagon or bullock wagon is a four-wheeled vehicle pulled by oxen (draught cattle). It was a traditional form of transport, especially in Southern...
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The wagon tragedy, also known as wagon massacre, was an incident which occurred during the Malabar rebellion against British colonial rule in India that...
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type of railway gondola Chaldron wagon Dumper Dump truck Haul truck Hopper car Mine car Minecart Mineral wagon Open wagon Coal haul truck (disambiguation)...
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the site, the museum inherited it. They converted it into a four-plank open wagon for use as the carrier for the batteries needed to power the railway's...
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A vardo (also Romani wag(g)on, Gypsy wagon, living wagon, caravan, van and house-on-wheels) is a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle traditionally used by...
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wagons - which, in turn are part of the group of covered goods wagons, although cattle have historically also been transported in open goods wagons....
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