Departmental vehicle

Trolley, also called railway company car or rail car maintenance, special railway or tramway vehicles. They are not the passenger or freight but are kept for internal purposes. Applications are typically the maintenance of the railway facilities, not least of overhead lines.

Railway

Working carriage by rail shall be conducted as a web service vehicles and are mostly trucks for transportation of work material, for the maintenance of the railway facilities were built or converted or newly to other internal uses. They run usually as a special work train (abbreviation: Arbz ), often only at low speed, and only exceptionally under special precautions in freight trains.

As a working car frequently see a car use that are no longer usable or admitted because of their age and design for regular traffic. Sometimes they are converted for certain work. Special working cars are built for a specific purpose (transport of gravel or construction machinery).

Two-way vehicle platform for installation of overhead lines

Narrow gauge railway snow plow the Weißeritztalbahn

Not least often retired from the regular service railcars are still referred to as a route Bereisung car to inspect the railway track or used as a transport vehicle for construction workers, is shown as a museum at the Hamburg port railway.

Tram and trolleybus

While the German railway system include the trolley to the side vehicles, including the trolley trams and trolleybuses ( trolleybuses ) to control vehicles and must be operated according to the regulations on the construction and operation of the trams ( BOStrab ).

As with the railways here often converted vehicles use which by their design can no longer be used on the regular traffic because of their age or conditionally. But there are not only vehicles that are retrofitted for general working purposes, but also those specific tasks are being built, such as the grinding carriage.

Many tram trolley own (as opposed to those of the railway), however, has its own drive, it is also called by labor railcars. Driveless trolleys are also referred to as a working Loren or Arbeitsbeiwagen.

Typical tram and trolleybus service vehicles are salt cars, grinding car, spraying lorries, mobile tower, de-icing vehicles and driving school cars.

Rail grinding the Frankfurt tram

A trolleybus service vehicles of the type KTG -1 in the Ukrainian Donetsk

• Railroad maintenance vehicle
• Tram vehicle
• Oberleitungsbusfahrzeug