A sail bogey or sail trolley is a wind-driven vehicle that runs along railway tracks.

Examples

Spurn railway

The Spurn railway, built along

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on the

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coast of England was built in the

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and ran until the early 1950s and included sail bogies as part of its rolling stock.

Teesmouth lifeboat

In the early days of the Teesmouth lifeboat, its crew were sometimes able, subject to wind conditions, to travel out to the lifeboat station at

South Gare South Gare is an area of reclaimed land and breakwater on the southern side of the mouth of the River Tees in Redcar and Cleveland, England. It is accessed by taking the South Gare Road (private road) from Fisherman's Crossing at the western en ...

on a sail bogey.

Others

Camber Railway - sail-driven waggons with balanced lug, standing lug and gaff rigs

Other locations to have used sail bogies include: * Cliffe, Kent *

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, KentInformation from display at Herne Bay Museum (see :File:Herne Bay Museum 0007.jpg) *

Camber Railway The Camber Railway was a narrow gauge railway located on the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It was one of the most southerly railways in the world. The Camber Railway was constructed to support the Admiralty wireless station, suppl ...

near

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, The Falkland Islands * the

Dagebüll–Oland–Langeneß island railway The Dagebüll–Oland–Langeneß island railway () is a gauge ''Feldbahn'' in North Frisia that connects Dagebüll to the Halligen (low-lying islands) of Oland and Langeneß. Gallery Oland-lorenbahn-1.jpg, Crossing the dike Dyke (UK) o ...

, connecting the town of

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with the

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Oland and

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, Germany

Replica

More recently, in 2005, a replica of a 19th-century sail bogey was built and demonstrated on the

Ffestiniog Railway The Ffestiniog Railway ( cy, Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a heritage railway based on narrow-gauge, located in Gwynedd, Wales. It is a major tourist attraction located mainly within the Snowdonia National Park. The railway is roughly long an ...

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.The Boat.
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Examples

Spurn railway

Teesmouth lifeboat

Others

Replica

References

Further reading