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In South Africa, the term bogie is often alternatively used to refer to a freight or goods wagon (shortened from bogie wagon). Experiment, the first successful American locomotive with a bogie, built in 1831 to a design by civil engineer John B. Jervis. A locomotive with a bogie was built by engineer William Chapman in 1812. It hauled itself ...
Hbillns wagon with sliding sides in ITL’s green livery Commonwealth Oil Corporation goods wagon in Australia. Goods wagons or freight wagons [1] (North America: freight cars), [2] also known as goods carriages, goods trucks, freight carriages or freight trucks, are unpowered railway vehicles that are used for the transportation of cargo.
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The standard designed covered freight wagons were intended by the Deutsche Reichsbahn for the transport of livestock and general cargo and are therefore sometimes referred to as "cattle wagons". They were mainly used in the East for the "transport of Jews" and thus became the "central symbol for the Nazi deportations."
This wagon is an articulated wagon with three two-axle bogies. The 270 wagons built exclusively for the DB as combination wagons are partly pure 106 ? ft [clarification needed] container wagons with a loading length of 16,100 mm (52 ft 9 + 7 ⁄ 8 in) and partly similar to the T3 pocket wagon section. The type 739 is approved for 140 km/h (87 ...
A Class Ow goods wagon on the Saxon narrow gauge railways with Heberlein brakes Open wagon for peat, 750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) . 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 and can usually be tipped, dumped or shovelled.
Wagonload freight was still loss making in 1965 despite the closures – making a loss of £40 million (from a £54million loss in 1961). No improvement in profitability had been achieved by 1966, despite the economies, and in part exacerbated by the cuts. [11] In 1967 wagonload freight produced two thirds of British Rail's freight revenue ...
A mixed train or mixed consist is a train that contains both passenger and freight cars or wagons. [1] In some countries, the term refers to a freight train carrying various different types of freight rather a single commodity. Although common in the early days of railways, by the 20th century they were largely confined to branch lines with ...