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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.
In addition there was a great number of private goods wagons, e.g. fishtank wagons for live fish, beer vans and wine wagons, heated fruit vans, dry bulk goods wagons (for goods in powder form), tank and carboy wagons, all of which used components of the Austauschbau wagons as far as possible.
Tank wagon with standard underframe loaded on a Culemeyer. The German term Verbandsbauart describes both a type of goods wagon as well as a type of tram.. In order to standardise the goods wagons classes of the various German state railways (Länderbahnen), the German State Railway Wagon Association (Deutscher Staatsbahnwagenverband or DWV) issued regulations.
Other private wagons 600 000 – 602 999; Railway departmental wagons 700 001 – 702 000; Although the livery of goods wagons was established as red-brown by the DSV with effect from 1 Jan 1911, the K.Bay.Sts.B. did not issue the instructions until 4 Apr 1912, so green wagons would presumably have been seen for some time after this.
The German State Railway Wagon Association could, unlike the Prussian State Railway Wagon Association, stipulate standard wagon designs for the whole of Germany. It developed a total of eleven different wagon types, the Verbandsbauart (literally: association type) or DWV wagons. In addition to entire goods wagons, types of bogie were also ...
c O to 1910 Coke wagon (Cocswagen) with high sides in order to load the right amount of coke corresponding to the maximum load from 1911 Maximum 15 ton load, wooden sides at least 1,30 m high but lower than 1,90 m f O/OO from 1951 Rotating and folding drop ends for transporting vehicles (Fahrzeugbeförderung) g O 1924 to 1950
Bogie wagon with loading length of 22 m (72 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) or more I: Wagon with separate wheelsets and loading area of 27 m 2 (290 sq ft) or more 22 m (72 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) or more H: Bogie wagon with loading length of 22 m (72 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 8 in) or more c E: Discharging trap on the wagon floor F: Controllable gravity discharging wagon.
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.