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British Rail departmental wagons are wagons used by British Rail and their successors Railtrack and Network Rail for departmental purposes. Many vehicles are named after aquatic creatures (including fish , mammals , birds and mythical creatures ), these names started life as telegraphic codes.
British Rail: Diesel 70 110 1 1 142: Pacer: 75 120 1 2 Lumo: 803: AT300: AC electric 125 200 5 5 Merseyrail: 777/0: METRO: DC electric 75 120 46 4 Third rail mode only 777/1: 7 Third rail mode - full top speed, battery mode - 62 mph / 100 km/h Network Rail: 153: Sprinter: Diesel 75 120 4 1 Track inspection [28] 950: 1 2 Test train based on ...
Over the years, London Underground has acquired various types of engineering stock to help with the construction of new lines and maintenance of existing lines. Some of these wagons were inherited from its predecessors, many were built new and some were acquired second-hand from the main-line railways.
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Former 'Private Owner' wagons, owned by industrial concerns rather than the railway companies, had a prefix letter "P" but were renumbered into a new series commencing at 3000. Some carriages and wagons built by British Railways to the designs of the 'Big Four' companies were numbered in their series and carried the appropriate letter prefix.
In Portugal, there are three railway loading gauge standards for conventional (iberian gauge) railways: Gabarito PT b, Gabarito PT b+ and Gabarito PT c. Gabarito PT b (also called CPb) and Gabarito PT b+ (also called CPb+) allow rail cars to be 3.44 m (11 ft 3.5 in) wide with a permitted height of 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in), although CPb+ has a ...
The CDA wagon was a type of hopper railway wagon used by British Rail, and then the privatised railway, to move china clay in South West England. The CDA was based on the same design as the HAA wagons which were used to transport coal, with the prototype CDA being a conversion of the HAA type. The wagons were used for 35 years being introduced ...
Goods van, goods wagon, or goods truck, railway wagon, or wagon A type of rolling stock with a flat bottom enclosed on all sides and top, which is loaded and unloaded from sliding doors on each side [56] [57] Goyle A British Rail Class 31 diesel-electric locomotive—from "gargoyle" (after the somewhat ungainly headcode boxes above the driving ...