A covered goods wagon or covered goods van (United Kingdom) is a railway goods wagon which is designed for the transportation of moisture-susceptible goods...
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Goods wagons or freight wagons (North America: freight cars), also known as goods carriages, goods trucks, freight carriages or freight trucks, are unpowered...
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transporting goods. Despite this, the cultural legacy of the Conestoga wagon endured in the later 19th and 20th centuries as they and other covered wagons became...
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GWR 813 Preservation Fund (section Open Goods Wagons)
four coaches, and over 100 wagons of many types, in the collection is the only surviving ex-Brecon and Merthyr Railway open wagon. Baxter, Pat Goss, Nick...
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Railway Carriage and Wagon Company: Goods all-iron wagons 1862 Covered goods wagon (Assam Bengal Railway), 1902 Four wheel cattle wagon (Ceylon Government...
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covered wagons - which, in turn are part of the group of covered goods wagons, although cattle have historically also been transported in open goods wagons...
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The wagon with opening roof is a type of railway goods wagon that is, nowadays, defined and standardised by the International Union of Railways (UIC) as...
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superstructure. By contrast, open wagons have high side and end walls and covered goods wagons have a fixed roof and sides. Flat wagons are often designed for the...
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Similar covered freight cars outside North America are covered goods wagons and, depending on the region, are called goods van (UK and Australia), covered wagon...
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this doubles a goods wagons class. These are covered in detail in the article on UIC classification of railway coaches. Each goods wagons type is given...
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