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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.
F – Flat car; FK – Flat car for container transport; FU – Well wagon; LA – Low flat car with standard buffer height; LB – Low flat car with low buffer height; LAB – Low flat car, one end with low buffer, the other with high buffer; R – Rail-carrying wagon; T – Tanker; U – Well wagon; W – Well wagon
Narrow gauge flat wagons, 750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in).Note the single buffer with a hook on the right side and a chain on the other. On some narrow-gauge lines in Europe, and on the Paris Metro, a simplified version of the loose-coupler is used, consisting of a single central buffer with a chain underneath.
A military ward car is used as make-shift hospitals to carry wounded soldiers and are equipped with medical equipment. Crane cars and other cargo wagons are used for specific purposes by the Indian military. [51] Pantry car. A pantry car is a specialized car which is used for the preparation of meals and snacks to the passengers.
An axlebox, also known as a journal box in North America, is the mechanical subassembly on each end of the axles under a railway wagon, coach or locomotive; it contains bearings and thus transfers the wagon, coach or locomotive weight to the wheels and rails; the bearing design is typically oil-bathed plain bearings on older rolling stock, or roller bearings on newer rolling stock.
Meaning t Gbkl, Hkr 1968 to 1979 with special equipment for transporting personnel u E, G, K, R 1968 to 1979 not suitable for military use v E, T 1968 to 1979 not suitable for loading or unloading with a crane G, H 1968 to 1993 With roof hatches (loading hatches in the roof) U 1980 to 1993 For cement w U 1968 to 1979 For liquid fuel Z 1980 to 1993
A covered goods wagon or covered goods van (United Kingdom) is a railway goods wagon which is designed for the transportation of moisture-susceptible goods and therefore fully enclosed by sides and a fixed roof.
A pneumatic buffer with sections cut away. A buffer is a part of the buffers and chain coupler system used on the railway systems of many countries, among them most of those in Europe, for attaching railway vehicles together (in North America, rolling stock instead has draft gear built into the couplers).