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    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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    Bogie (section Rollbock)
    have power bogies similar to those on diesel and electric locomotives. A rollbock is a specialized type of bogie that is inserted under the wheels of a rail...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    Käfertal freight yard (Rollbock transfer yard)...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Railcar 42 shunting standard gauge wagons on Rollbocks at the Valmoesa steelworks in the 1980s...
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  • gauge vehicles may be transferred to the narrow gauge section by means of rollbocks (Rollböcken) or transporter wagons (Rollwagen). There were more than 90...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    Ottensen industrial railway and the Unilever margarine factory, using the Rollbock system. The Ölweiche siding used to connect to the Wedel Power Station...
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    station"), which connected with passenger services on the narrow gauge Rollbock Railway to Upper Heindorf from 1902 to 1957. At the same time as the lower...
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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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    using overhead wires. In 1974 the railway pioneered the Vevey system of Rollbocks, which allows a train of standard-gauge wagons to be automatically loaded...
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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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    " Pressnitz Valley Railway Schönheide Heritage Railway Forest Railway Rollbock locomotive Schwarzbachbahn Poehlwassertalbahn Wilder-Robert Wilsdruffer-Schmalspurnetz...
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