Rolling stock

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Variety of rolling stock in railway yard

The term Rolling stock originally referred to any vehicles that move on a railway. It has since
expanded to include the wheeled vehicles used by businesses on roadways. [citation needed] It usually
includes both powered and unpowered vehicles, for example locomotives,railroad cars, coaches,
and wagons.[1][2][3][4]
Contents
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1Overview

2Code names

3See also

4References

5External links

Overview[edit]
Rolling stock is considered to be a liquid asset,[citation needed] or close to it, since the value of the
vehicle can be readily estimated and then shipped to the buyer without much cost or delay.
The term contrasts with fixed stock (infrastructure), which is a collective term for
the track, signals, stations, other buildings, electric wires, etc., necessary to operate a railway.

Diesel and steam locomotives

DMU rolling stock

American-style hopper car

Articulated well cars withintermodal containers

Code names[edit]
In Great Britain, types of rolling stock were given code names, often of animals. For example,
"Toad" was used as a code name for the Great Western Railway goods brake van,[5]while British
Railways wagons used for track maintenance were named after fish, such as "Dogfish" for
a ballast hopper.[6] These codes were telegraphese, somewhat analogous to the SMS
language of today.

See also[edit]

List of railway vehicles

Great Western Railway telegraphic codes

Great Western Railway wagons

References[edit]
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2.

Jump up^ "Yaxham Light Railway rolling stock page".

Jump up^ "Definition of "rolling stock" from the Oxford English Dictionary accessed 5
February 2007 (subscription service)".

3.

Jump up^ "Definition of "rolling stock" from the Concise Oxford Dictionary".

4.

Jump up^ "Definition from the American Heritage Dictionary".

5.

Jump up^ "Code Names for Great Western Carriage Stock and
Vans". greatwestern.org.uk.

6.

Jump up^ "Fishkinds and TOPS". btinternet.com. Archived from the original on 11
October 2012.