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The term rolling stock in the rail transport industry refers to railwayvehicles, including both powered and unpowered vehicles, for example locomotives, railroad cars, coaches, private railroad cars and wagons.^[1][2][3][4] A connected series of railway vehicles is a train.

In the United States, the definition has been expanded from the older broadly defined 'trains' to include wheeled vehicles used by businesses on roadways.^[5][6][7]

Overview[edit]

The word 'stock' in the term is used in a sense of inventory. Rolling stock is considered to be a liquid asset, 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.^[8][9] 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.

• Steam and diesellocomotives

• DMU rolling stock

• American-style hopper car

• Articulated well cars with intermodal containers

• European-type covered freight cars

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,^[10] while British Railways wagons used for track maintenance were named after fish, such as 'Dogfish' for a ballast hopper.^[11] These codes were telegraphese, somewhat analogous to the SMS language of today.

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References[edit]

1. ^'Yaxham Light Railway rolling stock page'.
2. ^'Definition of 'rolling stock' from the Oxford English Dictionary accessed 5 February 2007 (subscription service)'.
3. ^'Definition of 'rolling stock' from the Concise Oxford Dictionary'.
4. ^'Definition from the American Heritage Dictionary'. Archived from the original on 2009-02-22.
5. ^'rolling stock'. The Free Dictionary. Farlex. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
6. ^Illinois Department of Revenue. 'RUT-7: Rolling Stock Certification'(PDF). Retrieved January 27, 2017.
7. ^'Michigan's Rolling Stock Exemption'. TaxRates. Avalara. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
8. ^Finger, Matthias; Bert, Nadia; Kupfer, David, eds. (2014). 'Rail infrastructure and rolling stock: investments, asset renewal and regulation'(PDF). European University Institute, Florence School of Regulation. pp. 8–9.
9. ^Wijnia, Y.; de Croon, J.; Liyanage, J.P. (2014). '36: Application of a Unified Reference Model Across Asset Types: Comparative Cases'. In Lee, Jay; Ni, Jun; Sarangapani, Jagnathan; Mathew, Joseph (eds.). Engineering Asset Management 2011: Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management. London: Springer. pp. 416–417. ISBN978-1-4471-4993-4. ISSN2195-4356. LCCN2013934026 – via Google Books.
10. ^'Code Names for Great Western Carriage Stock and Vans'. greatwestern.org.uk.
11. ^'Fishkinds and TOPS'. btinternet.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012.

External links[edit]

Media related to rail vehicles at Wikimedia Commons

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• The dictionary definition of rolling stock at Wiktionary

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