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The Bombardier Talent regional articulated railcar.
A railcar in British English and Australian English is a self-propelled rail vehicle designed to carry passengers railcar The term is usually used in reference to a train consisting of a single carriage coach, car, with the driver's cab at one or both ends Some railways, for example, the Great Western Railway used the term Railmotor If she is able to take a full train, it is rather called a bus or a car engine 1.
In its simplest form, it can be a little more than a motorized version of a railway handcar sometimes called a speeder.
The term is sometimes used as an alternative for smaller types of multiple unit names that consist of more than one coach The term is more generally used now in Ireland to refer to a diesel multiple unit DMU, or in some cases, multiple electrical unit EMU.
In North America the term railcar has a much broader sense, and the term is used to refer to all types of rail transport, including freight cars unpowered 2 3 4.
The vehicle low floor Regio-Shuttle RS1 is a modern version of one railcar unit Many of these can work together; articulated versions are also available.
Economic railcars run for loads of light passengers due to their small size, and in many countries are often used to run passenger services on minor railway lines, such as rural railway lines where passenger traffic is scarce, and where the use of a more uneconomic train a famous example in the United States are the railcars Galloping Goose Rio Grande Southern Railroad whose introduction led to the cessation of steam passenger service on the line and greatly extended service life.
Railcars were also used on the leading service in New Zealand, although railcars were used mainly on regional services, the Blue Streak and Silver Fern railcars were used on North Island Main Trunk between Wellington and Auckland offered a better level of service than previous transport trains.
An old narrow gauge train car in Dubrovnik in Croatia in 1967.
A first steam railcar to the narrow way Niederösterreichische Landesbahn built by Komarek in Vienna in 1903 photography Works.
A first rail bus gasoline engine on the central railway New York.
When there are enough passengers to justify it, only the unit powered cars can be assembled in a form to multiple units, with a driver to control all the engines, but it has already been the case for a car to tow a trolley or second car that provide all power, it is possible for several railcars to work together, each with its own driver hands of the Board of County Donegal Railways reason was to reduce costs because small cars do are not always equipped with multiple control unit.
There are also articulated wagons with bogies under point between cars instead of two pivoting bogies under each carriage see Jacobs bogie.
A diesel Coradia LINT of Taunusbahn arrived at the station Brandoberndorf and now awaits the departure of Bad Homburg.
A new breed of diesel or light regional railcars aerodynamically modern electric designed that can operate as individual vehicles or trains or in multiple units are becoming very popular in Europe and Japan, replacing railcars first generation and second generation railcars DMU, usually running on the railway main line and in some cases, less used in exclusive lanes in urban areas as much DMU high-end, these vehicles are 2 or 3 units connected which are semi-permanently coupled married pairs or triplets and function as one passenger unit can walk between married pair units without having to open or pass through the unit capacity doors from 70 to more than 300 passengers seated L the equipment is highly customizable with a variety of engine, transmission, coupling systems and car lengths.
Unlike other parts of the world, the United States, these vehicles generally do not conform to the Federal Railroad Administration FRA regulations citation needed and, therefore, can only operate on dedicated rights of way with a complete separation between railway activities This restriction makes it almost impossible to use them on existing rail corridors with a conventional passenger rail Nevertheless, these vehicles may soon run the US manufacturers such as Siemens, Alstom and Adtranz claim they may be able to produce compliant FRA versions of their European citation of necessary equipment.
The regional railcars are used by the light of a number of railways in Germany, among others, and also in the Netherlands Denmark Italy and soon in Spain when.
The new generation of models and multi-unit articulated cars included.
Railcar gasoline OSLJ Södermanlands Eastern Railway, a narrow gauge railway museum in the typical time of the 1890-1910 environment century Sweden.
A variant is a railcar Railcar a very light type vehicle designed specifically for use on railway lines rarely used, and as the name suggests share many aspects of their construction with a bus generally having a bus or bus body changed, and having four wheels on a fixed basis, rather than on railcars were used often bogies in countries such as Germany, Italy, France, UK Czech Republic and Sweden.
One type of railcar known as a pacesetter is still commonly used in railcars UK New Zealand which was more like railcars were diesel cars Leyland and Wairarapa cars that were specially designed to run on the Rimutaka slope between Wellington and the Wairarapa region in Australia, where they were often called Motors rails, cars were often used for passenger services on lightly used lines in France, they are called a very common time Railcar their use died as local lines were closed However, a new model was introduced for less used lines.
After termination of mainline passenger services BC Rail in Canada BC Rail began operating a pair of railcars in some colonies inaccessible otherwise.
In Russia Metrowagonmash Mytishchi manufactures railcar RA-1 with a Mercedes engine Since summer 2006, scheduled Gorky Railway begin using the commuter line between Nizhny Novgorod and Bor 5.
The term also refers to a bus railcar dual mode that can run in the streets with rubber tires and tracks with retractable HyRail train wheels.
Railcar is also a term that refers to a bus that replaces or complements railway services on railway lines or low patronage bus which ends at a so called a train bus station This process is sometimes called bustitution.
A British company is currently promoting rail bus concept Parry Locomotives shuttle is the energy stored in a flywheel The first production vehicles, designated as British Rail Class 139 have a small LPG engine on board to bring the steering wheel to the speed in practice, this could be an electric motor which will connect to need food judgments Alternatively, an engine-level breakpoints could wind the wheel of every car that stops.
William Bridges Adams built steam railcars in Bow, London in the 1840s Many British railway companies tried steam cars, but they are not very successful and are often replaced by push-pull Sentinel Waggon Works trains was a builder British steam car.
In Belgium, MA Cabany Mechelen steam designed railcars His first was built in 1877 and exhibited at an exhibition in Paris This may have been the World Expo 1878 steam boiler was provided by Boussu work and there was accommodation for the first, second and third class passengers and their luggage There was also a locker for dogs under Fifteen were built and worked mainly in the districts of Hainaut and Antwerp.
In 1904, Automotor Journal reported that a railway after another was realizing that the buses could be used to handle the traffic light on their smaller lines 6 Northeastern Railways were experimented for some time in that direction, and Wolseley provided them with a motor to four flat capable of up to 100 c 75 kilowatts for this purpose, the engine drives a primary generator for supplying two electric drive motors, and smaller generator to charge the batteries to power interior lighting and enable the electric start motor controls for the dynamo allowed the coach to be driven from either end for details, see 1903 Essence electric bus.
Another early railcar UK was designed by James Sidney Drewry and made by Drewry Car Co in 1906. In 1908, production was transferred to Birmingham Small Arms Company.
While the first cars were powered by gasoline vapor and diesel engines, modern railcars are generally propelled by a diesel engine mounted under the floor of diesel coach railcars may have mechanical fluid coupling and transmission, hydraulic torque converter or diesel-electric transmission.
Simple electric railcars on mainline electrical systems are rare, because the electrification normally involves heavy use where private cars are not economic Exceptions to this rule are to be found on the tram and intercity systems, the red car from Pacific Electric Railway is a prime example.
Experiments with battery electric railcars were carried out from 1890 in Belgium, France, Germany and Italy the USA, railcars of Edison Beach type, with nickel-iron batteries were used in 1911 in New Zealand, an Edison battery electric railcar 1926-1934 operated the nickel-zinc battery Drumm was used on four sets 2 cars between 1932 and 1946 on Harcourt Street line in Ireland and the British railways batteries lead-acid in a railcar in 1958 between 1955 and 1995 DB railways successfully operated 232 ETA DB class 150 cars using lead acid batteries.
Like any other electric vehicle battery the downside is the limited range, this can be solved by using overhead cables to charge for use in places where there is no son, the weight and the load or drums.
An example of a new application of zero-emission vehicles for railway environments such as subway is Cater MetroTrolley which carries instrumentation ultrasonic flaw detection.
German train car, German train passenger often used.