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Piggyback intermodal freight transport. A survey of current operation and possible applications in Britain (TM-TAG-062)

Last updated on 07 June 2013 2:38

"Piggyback" is the colloquial name for that mode of freight transport in which a road vehicle is carried complete with running gear on a railway vehicle. The road vehicle can be a non-powered trailer, a tractor unit with trailer, or a powered rigid vehicle. The rail wagon can be a...

Author(s): Kelsall J.G.

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1982

United Kingdom

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