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The Lohr Railway System or Modalohr System (french: Système Modalohr) uses special
at lohr.fr. Retrieved 23 Jun 2017. They are currently used on the AFF route from France to Italy and Luxembourg to the French border with Spain and vice versa. There are plans to expand this service. They have also been approved for the
Modalohr corporate website
A wagon to carry standard semi-trailers throughout Europe
Environmental Advantage
Flexiwaggon, corporate website
Kockums Megaswing
{{freight cars Freight rolling stock Intermodal transport
The Lohr Railway System or Modalohr System (french: Système Modalohr) uses special railway wagon
A railroad car, railcar (American and Canadian English), railway wagon, railway carriage, railway truck, railwagon, railcarriage or railtruck (British English and UIC), also called a train car, train wagon, train carriage or train truck, is a ...
s of a type known as piggyback wagons, to carry standard road semi-trailers on the European rail network.''Lohr Railway System''at lohr.fr. Retrieved 23 Jun 2017. They are currently used on the AFF route from France to Italy and Luxembourg to the French border with Spain and vice versa. There are plans to expand this service. They have also been approved for the
Channel Tunnel
The Channel Tunnel (french: Tunnel sous la Manche), also known as the Chunnel, is a railway tunnel that connects Folkestone (Kent, England, UK) with Coquelles ( Hauts-de-France, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. ...
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This articulated railway wagon consists of two low-floor decks, resting on a single Y25 jacobs bogie in the middle and on two Y33 bogies on the extreme ends. Using standard bogies resulted in lower maintenance costs compared with the similar rolling highway concept.
The deck between the bogie
A bogie ( ) (in some senses called a truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework that carries a wheelset, attached to a vehicle—a modular subassembly of wheels and axles. Bogies take various forms in various modes of transp ...
s (trucks) pivots (swings) 30°, allowing the trailers to be loaded from the sides. The cars are built by Lohr Industrie.
See also
* Kangourou wagon *Lorry-Rail S.A. Lorry-Rail is a rolling highway operator. Its mission consists of developing, promoting and marketing the new 1050 km rail-road service from Bettembourg, Luxembourg to le Boulou near Perpignan, France, for standard unaccompanied semi-trailers. ...
* Piggyback
Piggyback, piggy-back, or piggybacking may mean:
Transport
* Piggyback (transportation), something that is riding on the back of something else
Art, entertainment, and media
* Splash cymbal piggybacking, mounting a cymbal on top of an already ...
* Pocket wagon
* Trailer-on-flatcar
Trailer on flatcar, also known as TOFC or piggyback, is the practice of carrying semi-trailers on railroad flatcars. TOFC allows for shippers to move truckloads long distances more cheaply than can be done by having each trailer towed by a truck, s ...
References
External links
Modalohr corporate website
A wagon to carry standard semi-trailers throughout Europe
Comparable concepts
Environmental Advantage
Flexiwaggon, corporate website
Kockums Megaswing
{{freight cars Freight rolling stock Intermodal transport