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Kangourou Wagon
The '' 'kangaroo wagon' '' is a type of wagon rail designed for the transport of semi-trailers. It has a drawbridge forming a pocket in the low position (hence its name) allowing the carrier train (2 or 3 axles) of the semi-trailer to be placed and thus to respect the height of the loading gauge ( above top of rail for the loading gauge of the UIC). These are special open wagons. The axle models are UIC K type, their bogie S type counterparts. In France The '' 'kangaroo wagon' '' is the continuation of the UFR wagon. The latter no longer meeting transport requirements, a new type of wagon was studied for the transport of semi-trailer s but this time taking as a basis a standard trailer and not an adapted trailer. Axle wagon The first type of kangaroo wagon is a twin-axle model weighing of tare, having a length of and accepting a load of . This wagon is within the limits of load, length and wheelbase, fixed by the International Union of Railways (UIC), with a wheelbase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nederlandse Spoorwegen En Wagons Kangourou Nieuw Laadsysteem Voor Vrachtautos, Bestanddeelnr 914-8971
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Marshalling Yard
A classification yard (American and Canadian English (Canadian National Railway use)), marshalling yard (British, Hong Kong, Indian, Australian, and Canadian English (Canadian Pacific Railway use)) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a railway yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railway cars onto one of several tracks. First the cars are taken to a track, sometimes called a ''lead'' or a ''drill''. From there the cars are sent through a series of switches called a ''ladder'' onto the classification tracks. Larger yards tend to put the lead on an artificially built hill called a ''hump'' to use the force of gravity to propel the cars through the ladder. Freight trains that consist of isolated cars must be made into trains and divided according to their destinations. Thus the cars must be shunted several times along their route in contrast to a unit train, which carries, for example, cars from the plant to a port, or coal from a mine to the power plant. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 In Rail Transport
__TOC__ Events January events * January 5 – The first public trains of Taiwan High Speed Rail operate between Taipei and Kaohsiung, a journey, in 1:36 hours. * January 9 – Government of Estonia buys back majority share in Eesti Raudtee, the national rail operator, from private investors. * January 12 – Railway Age Magazine selects Bill Wimmer, Vice President Engineering for Union Pacific Railroad to receive the 2007 award for Railroader of the Year. * January 30 – The suburban rail network of Melbourne, Australia is thrown into chaos as much of the fleet of new Siemens Nexas Electric Multiple Unit trains is withdrawn from service after a number of incidents of brake failure. February events * February 7 – At a meeting in Tbilisi, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev sign an agreement authorizing construction of the new Kars-Tbilisi-Baku railway linking the three nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In Rail Transport
Events January events * January – New Kolkata railway station for long-distance passengers officially inaugurated in Chitpur. * January 5 – Railway workers across India begin voting on whether or not to hold a strike against Indian Railways in February. The union's demands center around pay scales, pensions, and private investment into the railway. A Northern Railway Mazdoor Union spokesperson stated that the decision to hold the strike vote was made at the recent All India Railwaymen's Union convention in Mumbai; Western Railway Mazdoor Sangh union members protested at the convention by burning an effigy of Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram. Voting is scheduled to conclude on January 8, and the vote count, which is expected to begin on January 9, will be monitored by external observers. * January 6 – China's Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun announces details of a 160 billion yuan ( $20 billion) plan for railway construction there in the coming ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 In Rail Transport
Events January events * January 1 – The Korean National Railroad in South Korea is split into the Korea Railroad Corporation, branded as Korail, which will operate trains, and Korea Rail Network Authority (KR), which maintains the tracks. * January 5 – The metre-gauge Brünig railway line of the Swiss Federal Railways and the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg railway line merge to form the Zentralbahn. * January 12 – General Motors announces that it has agreed to sell Electro-Motive Diesel to a consortium led by Greenbriar Equity Group and Berkshire Partners.General Motors (January 12, 2005)GM Agrees To Sell Electro-Motive Division Retrieved January 12, 2005. * January 29 – Singapore's third LRT Line, Punggol LRT Line, is opened. February events * February 25 – Bombardier is awarded a contract to build 361 passenger cars for a new Chinese rail line to Lhasa, Tibet; due to the destination's altitude the cars will include special UV-filtering glass and a unique o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 In Rail Transport
Events April events * April 9 ** Saltaire station is reopened in West Yorkshire, England, by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive nearly twenty years after it was closed by British Railways. ** Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line, Shibuya of Tokyo to Chuo-Rinkan route officially completed with regular operation service to start in Japan. * April 15 – The first section of Pittsburgh Light Rail service begins after being upgraded from PCC streetcar operation. * April 28 – Philadelphia's Center City Commuter Connection tunnel opens for service with shuttles between Suburban Station and Market East Station (now Jefferson Station). May events * May 20 - The Metrorail opens in Miami, Florida. There is free service from Dadeland South to Overtown/Arena to entice residents to ride. * May 29 - Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) operates the last train over the railroad's Waltham subdivision between Wyman and Waltham; power for this train is handled by road number 6538, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 In Rail Transport
Events January events * January 1 ** The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Connecticut Department of Transportation form Metro-North Railroad. ** China Railway opens Zhicheng–Liuzhou railway, in length with 396 tunnels totalling and 476 bridges totalling . ** Amtrak takes over the operation of the Baltimore-Washington service (retitled AMDOT) under contract to Maryland Department of Transportation. * January 2 - The first section of the Caracas Metro is opened, first rapid transit system in Venezuela. February events * February 27 - The first phase of the O'Hare rapid transit extension of the Chicago 'L' system is placed into operation from Jefferson Park to Rosemont via the Kennedy Expressway median. This phase opens the Harlem-Higgins, Cumberland, and River Road stations. April events * April 25 ** Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad discontinues independent intercity passenger train service with the final run of the ''Rio Grande Zephyr''. ** Lille Met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pocket Wagon
A pocket wagon is a freight wagon that has been specially designed for the transport of truck semi-trailers. This wagon belongs to the group of flat wagons in special design with bogies and is used in combined transport (CT). The name of these freight wagons comes from the fact that between the narrow longitudinal girders on the outside and also lengthways between the bogies, the so-called pockets are located, in which the wheels of the semi-trailers are particularly low. For flexible use in CT, pocket wagons have hinged latches with ISO spigots on the solebar, so that containers and swap bodies up to 45 ft can be accommodated'. As a flat wagon, it bears the UIC generic letter S and, since it is intended for the transport of road vehicles on one level, the code letter ''d''. Since it is also possible to transport containers in a pocket wagon, it bears the UIC generic mark ''Sdgs''. In this context, the code letter g stands for "containers up to 60 feet" and the lower case s for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 In Rail Transport
Events January events * January 10 – Passenger service on Boston and Maine Railroad's Lexington Branch ends when a train consisting of a Budd Rail Diesel Car and a switcher locomotive are stranded by a snowstorm at the Bedford, Massachusetts depot. * January 18 – The Granville railway disaster was Australia's worst ever railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, when a commuter train derails and hits a bridge, causing the bridge to collapse on top of the train. February events * February 4 – Chicago Loop derailment Chicago, Illinois, United States: A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train motorman disregards cab signals and rear ends another train at a curve on the Loop during the evening rush hour causing four cars of the rear train derail and fall to the street below. Eleven people are killed and over 180 injured in the worst disaster in the history of Chicago's rapid transit system. The motorman was suspected of being high on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piggyback (transportation)
Piggyback transportation refers to the transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. It is a specialised form of intermodal transportation and combined transport. Etymology ''Piggyback'' is a corruption of ''pickaback'', which is likely to be a folk etymology alteration of ''pick pack'' (1560s), which perhaps is from ''pick'', a dialectal variant of the verb ''pitch''. Examples Rail In rail transport, the practice of carrying trailers or semi-trailers in a train atop a flatcar is referred to as "piggybacking". Early drawings of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway c1830 show road coaches being piggybacked on railway flat wagons. The rail service provided for trucks which are carried on trains for part of their journey is referred to as a rolling road, or rolling highway. A related transportation method is the rail transport of semi-trailers, without road tractors, sometimes referred to as "trailer on flatcar (TOFC)". In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semi-trailers
A semi-trailer is a trailer without a front axle. In the United States, the term is also used to refer to the combination of a truck and a semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer. A large proportion of a semi-trailer's weight is supported by a tractor unit, or a detachable front-axle assembly known as a dolly, or the tail of another trailer. The other portion of the semi-trailer's weight is semi-supported (half-supported) by its own wheels, which only support the rear of the semi-trailer. A semi-trailer is normally equipped with landing gear (legs which can be lowered) to support it when it is uncoupled. Many semi-trailers have wheels that are capable of being totally dismounted and are also relocatable (repositionable) to better distribute load to bearing wheel weight factors. Semi-trailers are more popular for transport than full trailers, which have both front and rear axles. Ease of backing is cited as one of the semi's chief advantages. A road tractor coupled to a semi-trailer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
