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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 ...
Wickham (Hants) railway station served the village of Wickham in Hampshire, England. It was on the Meon Valley line of the London and South Western Railway. The station opened in 1903 and closed to passengers in 1955 and to goods in 1962. The main building was to a design by the architect T. P. Figgis.
The Rowtor Target Railway was built 1959 as a target railway based on an older target railway. [1] The 1,480-foot (450 m) long track consists of a long straight section and one curve, to which balloon loops were added each end as well as a double track siding into the locomotive shed, in which an old Wickham trolley was stored.
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]
The Snaefell Mountain Railway is an electric mountain railway on the Isle of Man in Europe. It joins the village of Laxey with the summit of Snaefell , at 2,036 feet (621 m) above sea level the highest point on the island.
Marshalltown Light, Power & Railway Co. [63]: 36 Electric December 31, 1892 August 31, 1928 Mason City & Clear Lake Railway [63]: 261–262 Mason City ― Clear Lake: Electric Interurban July 4, 1897 August 30, 1936 Clinton, Davenport & Muscatine Railway [63]: 243 ♦ Muscatine: Horse September 11, 1883 1893
The railway was a 8.5 miles (13.7 km) long 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge railway branch line and is the southernmost branch line in the United Kingdom. It opened in 1887 and was absorbed by the Great Western Railway in 1898, continuing in existence as the Helston branch, and closing to passengers in 1962 and to goods in 1964.
Canadian Pacific Railway Inspection Car 3700-84, last based at Abbotsford, British Columbia [16] c1980 Wickham trolley: 4w British Rail Western Region Type 4b trolley A14W-PWM2786, last based at Barmouth [16] 1965 Wickham trolley No. 6936 4w British Rail Western Region Type 27A Mk III trolley PWM3951 1955