page_title: Articulated vehicle
section_title: Type of vehicles
hierarchical_section_title: Articulated vehicle / Type of vehicles
caption_attribution_description: Gresley Quad Art Set at Sheringham station
context_page_description: An articulated vehicle is a vehicle which has a permanent or semi-permanent pivot joint in its construction, allowing the vehicle to turn more sharply. There are many kinds of articulated vehicles, from heavy equipment to buses, trams and trains. Steam locomotives were sometimes articulated in that the driving wheels could pivot around.
  In a broader sense, any vehicle towing a trailer or semi-trailer could be described as articulated. In the UK, the term "articulated lorry" refers to the combination of a tractor and a trailer, abbreviated to "artic". In the U.S., this is called a semi-trailer truck, "tractor-trailer" or "semi-truck" and would not necessarily be called articulated.
caption: London & North Eastern Railway articulated train from 1924
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