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The Wickham trolley was a railway engineering personnel carrier built by D. Wickham & Co of Ware, Hertfordshire. This long established firm introduced their rail trolley in 1922 as a lightweight track inspection and maintenance vehicle. This was a success and production of rail trolleys and railcars for inspection and maintenance continued ...
Not a rail-mounted vehicle. LNER: 497753 – Wickham trolley: M/C 3340 – 6t Motor Crane, built by Ransomes & Rapier. Believed ex-Dereham station. Not a rail-mounted vehicle. Great Eastern Railway – – 1t Horse-Drawn Yard Hand Crane. Ex-Watton station. Not a rail-mounted vehicle.
Rail mounted self-propelled vehicle used to clear lineside vegetation. Designed by Llŷr ap Iolo and built from chassis components from ex MOD Hunslet 4w diesel locomotive No 7495, originally built 1977 2'6" gauge. The McConnel flail head has a purpose built turntable and has a reach of 15 feet and a maximum speed of 7.5 mph. [10] In Traffic
Speeder in use in Santa Cruz, California. A speeder (also known as a section car, railway motor car, putt-putt, track-maintenance car, crew car, jigger, trike, quad, trolley, inspection car, or draisine) is a small railcar used around the world by track inspectors and work crews to move quickly to and from work sites. [1]
In the late 1950s, British Rail tested a series of small railbuses, produced by a variety of manufacturers, for about £12,500 each [1] (£261,000 at 2014 prices). [2] These proved to be very economical (on test the Wickham bus was about 9 mpg ‑imp (31 L/100 km)), [ 3 ] but were somewhat unreliable.
It was rail mounted, but the wheels could be retracted to allow the chassis to rest on the rails, evenly distributing its weight over its 16-foot (4.9 m) length. In February 1976 a 4-wheeled Wickham trolley was obtained, and used to carry out a thorough assessment of the pier's structural steelwork. The railway effectively became single track ...
There have been four different railcars on the line, all Wickham trolleys, starting with Air Ministry No. 1 which arrived in Air Force Blue livery, but was repainted into yellow and black (Civil Aviation Authority colours) in the 1960s; it has since been sold to a private owner and shipped to the UK in June 2007 for restoration. The second car ...
Road rail vehicle. Operational. BR black S&DRHT Unknown. ~ B40W Wickham trolley, Type 27A MkIII. Wickham 7504, [9] first used in Oxfordshire and then N. Wales until sent to a Nuneaton scrapyard. Carcase found cannibalised in Swanage [10] (original engine removed to restore Wickham 7505). [9]