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draisine
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thumb|right|Two-person rail-cycle draisine with four wheels, for leisure A draisine () is a light auxiliary rail vehicle, driven by service personnel, equipped to transport crew and material necessary for the maintenance of railway infrastructure.
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- Leisure use and tourism
- Competition and speed records
- Construction
- Motorized
- Railroad
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thumb|right|Two-person rail-cycle draisine with four wheels, for leisure A draisine () is a light auxiliary rail vehicle, driven by service personnel, equipped to transport crew and material necessary for the maintenance of railway infrastructure.
The term is derived from the German inventor of a two-wheeled, foot-propelled conveyance Baron Karl Drais, who invented his Laufmaschine (German for "running machine") in 1817, which was called Draisine in German (vélocipède or draisienne in French) by the press.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “draisine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.