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The Wickham trolley was a railway engineering personnel carrier built by D. Wickham & Co of Ware, Hertfordshire. This long established firm introduced their rail trolley in 1922 as a lightweight track inspection and maintenance vehicle.
Wickham trolley, Type 27A MkIII. Wickham 7504, [9] first used in Oxfordshire and then N. Wales until sent to a Nuneaton scrapyard. Carcase found cannibalised in Swanage [10] (original engine removed to restore Wickham 7505). [9] Restored in 2019 to run with a Reliant Robin 850 engine and other car parts. [10] Operational. BR maroon S&DRHT 1954
Early models of the railway maintenance ganger's Wickham trolley, from 1948, used a vee-twin JAP engine. This drove through a large flat flywheel and a friction drive. [27] In the 1950s other Wickham trolleys used the 600 cc JAP engine and drove through a clutch, tail shaft and bevel drive. [28]
This is a list of past and present rolling stock used on the Vale of Rheidol Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Cwm Rheidol), a 1 ft 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (603 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway, opened in 1902, that runs for 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (19 km) between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge in the county of Ceredigion, Wales.
Speeder in use in Santa Cruz, California. A speeder (also known as a section car, railway motor car, putt-putt, track-maintenance car, crew car, jigger, trike, quad, trolley, inspection car, or draisine) is a small railcar used around the world by track inspectors and work crews to move quickly to and from work sites. [1]
The hydraulic crane and Wickham trolley went to the Brecon Mountain Railway, where they were regauaged to 1 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (597 mm) and are used by the engineering department. [17] Most of the 1949 stock ended up in a scrapyard at Shoeburyness although some went elsewhere, and some was subsequently rescued. [11] [12] [18]
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Rich Morris retained his collection of portable industrial monorail equipment, designed by Road Machines (Drayton) Ltd and used for construction projects in the mid 20th century, [52] along with the remains of the Gloddfa Ganol collection: Listers 39005 and 14005, one standard gauge Wickham trolley and Rail Taxi.