Control vehicle

Standard vehicle is a term used in the railway industry . The German railways differentiates the control vehicles from the auxiliary vehicles . The "standard vehicles" have this designation because they correspond to the building regulations - the rules - of the railway building and operating regulations. In detail, the standard vehicles include:

• Traction vehicles ,
• Passenger cars ,
• Passenger baggage car ,
• Motorail coaches ,
• Mail car ,
• Freight wagons ,
• Freight train luggage wagons .

An essential feature of the standard vehicles is that they can be used in trains or, if they have a drive, can run as a train themselves.