Rollbocks, sometimes called transporter trailers, are narrow gauge railway trucks or bogies that allow a standard gauge wagon to 'piggyback' on a narrow-gauge...
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Achterhoek of Gelderland Standard gauge freight cars on Rollbock, 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) gauge Rollbock track 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) gauge Narrow gauge flat...
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Great Britain, led to political intervention. On narrow gauge lines, rollbocks or transporter wagons are used: standard gauge wagons are carried on narrow...
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of one track gauge can be carried on a flat wagon (transporter wagon or rollbock) of another gauge. In addition, an entire train of coupled wagons of one...
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Containerization Flatbed trolley Flatbed truck Intermodal container Load securing Rollbock Rolling highway Side stake Slate waggon Transporter flatcar Tie down strap...
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Minecart Mineral wagon Modalohr Open wagon (EU) Pocket wagon Quarry tub Rollbock Rotary car dumper Schnabel car Slate wagon Specialized flatcars Transporter...
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Minecart Mineral wagon Modalohr Open wagon (EU) Pocket wagon Quarry tub Rollbock Rotary car dumper Schnabel car Slate wagon Specialized flatcars Transporter...
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Australia the 1950s Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway 1904 used a Rollbock like wagon. Padarn Railway Piggyback (transportation) Weltrol – a standard...
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wagons. "Train on Train" uses a similar concept to Transporter wagons and Rollbocks. The need for "Train on Train" arose when Japan's Hokkaido Railway Company...
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built for one gauge on a line with a different gauge. A variant is the rollbock (Rollböcke in German), used under two-axle standard-gauge vehicles: each...
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metre-gauge network, a Rollbock system was opened in Gossau on 1 July 1978, allowing operations on the Gossau–Wasserauen route. Rollbock operations were extended...
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around Wernigerode by the Deutsche Reichsbahn, their last duties being in Rollbock service. The DR gave them new numbers following their nationalisation....
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conceived even in the early era of railways in Britain: 202–203 (including rollbocks, transporter wagons, dual gauge, and even containerization or variable...
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Rollbock yard SBB line to Winterthur...
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transloading were proposed in the early era of railways,: 202–203 including rollbocks, transporter wagons, dual gauge, and even containerization or variable...
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Mungindi railway line Qazaqstan Temir Zholy Ramsey car-transfer apparatus Rollbock SeaRail Transporter wagon Variable gauge axles Wheelset Grafton T. Nutter...
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exception was the annual sugar beet harvest, which was transported using Rollbocks, which operated until 1983. Otherwise, the OEG operated freight traffic...
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Käfertal freight yard (Rollbock transfer yard)...
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the standard gauge line from Frose. Because of the tight curve radii, Rollbock or transporter wagons could not be used on the narrow gauge railway and...
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Instead of a buffer this locomotive had a long coupling rod (Kuppelbaum) for rollbock work. They were renumbered in 1970 to 100 903 and 904, and in 1973 to 199 003...
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locomotive shed for the narrow-gauge vehicles with maintenance facilities, a Rollbock pit and a ramp for loading narrow-gauge wagons on standard-gauge wagons...
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m3 of water and 1.2 tonnes of coal. The locomotive was mainly used in rollbock services between Eichstätt and a quarry. After the formation of the Deutsche...
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Railcar 42 shunting standard gauge wagons on Rollbocks at the Valmoesa steelworks in the 1980s...
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of the station. Its equipment included a turntable, a goods shed and a Rollbock facility for transferring standard gauge freight wagons. In 1894 the first...
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transport standard gauge ballast wagons from the Hartsteinwerken Unterberg on rollbocks to Nordhausen. A number of converted diesel locomotives are available...
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railway. These required the use of special loading tracks. In 1938, the Rollbock system was installed, allowing standard gauge wagons to be carried over...
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were to the east of the State Railways' standard gauge tracks. In 1898 a Rollbock facility was built at the station to enable standard gauge freight wagons...
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Hartsteinwerk Unterberg regularly transports standard gauge gravel wagons on Rollbocks to the transfer yard in Nordhausen (Harz Railway). There are two converted...
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narrow-gauge railway towards Frauenstein and towards Oberdittmannsdorf. Rollbock devices and transporter wagons were never used on the Klingenberg-Colmnitz–Frauenstein...
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