page_title: Transporter wagon
section_title: See also
hierarchical_section_title: Transporter wagon / See also
caption_attribution_description: English: Transporter wagons of Padarn Railway
context_page_description: A transporter wagon, in railway terminology, is a wagon or railroad car designed to carry other railway equipment. Normally, it is used to transport equipment of a different rail gauge. In most cases, a transporter wagon is a narrower gauge wagon for transporting a wider gauge equipment, allowing freight in a wider gauge wagons to reach destinations on the narrower gauge network without the expense and time of transshipment into a narrower gauge wagons.
  This is an attempt to overcome one of the primary problems with differing gauge systems—gauge incompatibility. However, it means that the narrower gauge network must be built to a structure gauge large enough to accommodate the loading gauge of the wider gauge equipment, negating one of the cost advantages of a narrower gauge construction. Additionally, a large wider gauge wagon balanced on a narrower gauge transporter wagon is not very stable, and is generally restricted to low speeds of 15 mph or so.
  Transporter wagons have seen varying popularity. They were quite common in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Sweden.
context_section_description: East African Railway Master Plan
  Leek and Manifold Valley Light Railway 1904 used a Rollbock like wagon.
  Keith Smith (engineer) - devised transporting vehicles by the trainload in Australia the 1950s
  Weltrol - a standard gauge well wagon for carrying narrow gauge rolling stock ; built 1960
  Padarn Railway
  Piggyback (transportation)
caption: Transporter wagons of Padarn Railway
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