A Driving Van Trailer (DVT) is a British purpose-built control car railway vehicle that allows the driver to operate with a locomotive in push-pull formation...
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Control car (redirect from Driving trailers)
A control car, cab car (North America), control trailer, or driving trailer (UK, Ireland, Australia and India) is a non-powered rail vehicle from which...
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Push–pull train (section Driving Van Trailers (DVTs))
other parts of Europe, the control car is referred to as a driving trailer (or driving van trailer/DVT where there is no passenger accommodation); in the...
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comprising a Class 91 electric locomotive, nine Mark 4 coaches and a Driving Van Trailer (DVT). The Class 91 locomotives were built by British Rail Engineering...
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Cross using Class 67 locomotives hauling five Mark 3 carriages and a Driving Van Trailer. In March 2006, the ORR granted Grand Central access rights for three...
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Travelling Post Office Autorail Cab car or Control car (rail) Driving Van Trailer Driving Brake Standard Open Shunter or Switcher Tank locomotive Baggage...
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King's Cross with 99 occupants onboard. It consisted of a leading Driving Van Trailer (DVT), nine Mark 4 coaches, and a trailing Class 91 locomotive. The...
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of a Class 67 hauling a rake of modernised Mark 3 coaches and a Driving Van Trailer. Chiltern Railways originated with a number of former British Rail...
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InterCity 225: a Class 91 electric locomotive, nine Mark 4 coaches and a Driving Van Trailer (DVT) operating in push-pull mode; introduced in 1990, with electrification...
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between the locomotive, the railroad cars and the cab car or the driving van trailer on push-pull trains for multiple-unit train control and the transmission...
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