rolling stock
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vehicles, both powered & unpowered, on a rolling stock
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- railway
- Image
- Taiwan history travel pushcar2.jpg
- Has use
- rail transport
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- Commons category
- Rail vehicles
- topic's main category
- Category:Rolling stock
- facet of
- rail transport
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
The term rolling stock in the rail transport industry refers to railway vehicles, including both powered and unpowered vehicles: for example, locomotives, freight and passenger cars (or coaches), and non-revenue cars. Passenger vehicles can be unpowered, or self-propelled, single or multiple units.
In North America, Australia and other countries, the term consist (/ˈkɒnsɪst/ KON-sist) is used to refer to the rolling stock that a train comprises, a list containing specific information for each car of a train, or a group of locomotives.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “rolling stock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.