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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
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.
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.
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.
The freight cars can often carry loads from 10 to 80 tonnes per car depending on the configuration. [98] A new wagon numbering system was adopted in Indian Railways in 2003. [99] The requirement of wagons was previously met by Bharat wagon and engineering with the procurement and manufacturing now done by both in public and private sector. [1]
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 link-and-pin coupler Transition era AAR knuckle coupler. The gap in the knuckle accommodates the link of a link and pin coupler and the vertical hole in the knuckle accommodates the pin. Link and pin coupler combined with side buffers on a Panama canal mule. The link-and-pin coupling was the original style of coupling used on North American ...
The term rolling stock in the rail transport industry refers to railway vehicles, including both powered and unpowered vehicles: for example, locomotives, freight and passenger cars (or coaches), and non-revenue cars. Passenger vehicles can be un-powered, or self-propelled, single or multiple units. [1] [2] [3] [4]