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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
Similar freight cars in North America are called boxcars. [a] Ordinary covered wagon with central side door on the Rhaetian Railway in Switzerland Swiss Hbbillns sliding wall wagon, a present-day standard for palettised goods with lockable and movable partitions
Cars transported on flats with chocks fixing the wheels Car transporters (US: autoracks ) are predominantly used for the delivery of factory-new cars and vans to dealers. Because cars are a relatively light form of freight, European car transporters have two decks and, despite their great length, only need at most three axles.
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.
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).
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.
A freight train, also called a goods train or cargo train, is a railway train that is used to carry cargo, as opposed to passengers. Freight trains are made up of one or more locomotives which provide propulsion, along with one or more railroad cars (also known as wagons) which carry freight.