Sailing lorries

Sailing lorries on the Camber Railway in the Falkland Islands

Sail lorries on the Herne Bay Pier, 1855

A sailing lorry is a wind-powered rail vehicle.

Examples

On the Halligbahn Dagebüll – Oland – Langeneß was Magda Matthiesen, known as Captain Magda, a truck driver who from 1945 to 1968 brought mail, merchant goods and holiday guests to Oland and Langeness with an inherited sailing lorry.
The Spurn railway on Spurn Head on the Yorkshire coast in England was built during World War I and remained in service until the early 1950s. Sailing lorries were part of the rolling stock there.
The crew of the lifeboat in Teesmouth could occasionally go to the boathouse in South Gare on a sail lore in good wind conditions .

Hoo Peninsula in Kent

Gosport

Herne Bay Pier, Kent

Camber Railway in the Falkland Islands

Sailing lorries in Carnarvon , Western Australia , around 1906

Replicas

Ffestiniog Railway : Replica of Spooner's boat

In 2005, a replica of Spooner's boat was built and put into service for the Ffestiniog Railway in North Wales . The original was built by the Spooner family as an inspection vehicle as well as a private vehicle before 1864. It crashed when Charles Easton Spooner disregarded the rules for securing the route by means of a rod-shaped token and it collided with an oncoming train near the tunnel. Two passengers were seriously injured and were then bedridden.

fiction

The Digedags used a sailing lorry on their return trip from the Rocky Mountains. After her train on the Red River Railroad was stopped and robbed by railroad robbers in the middle of the desert, her car was abandoned in the desert. Unlike their fellow travelers, the Digedags wandered along the tracks towards the terminus. At an abandoned construction site, they found an abandoned cart next to the tracks. They heaved them onto the track and made a sailing lorry out of them with battens, ropes and a tarpaulin. With it they drove to the terminus of the train and arranged an expedition to rescue the stranded fellow travelers.

The depiction of the sailing lorry is based on an illustration in the book The American West - The Pictorial Epic of a Continent by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg , first published in 1955 , which was the model for many drawings in the America series.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mike Munro: Sails on Rails . Retrieved August 17, 2010.
↑ http://www.karstenhansen.de/geschichte1.htm
↑ Sailing lorry for the Ketelswarft: With the power of the wind to the Hallig. The Insel Bote dated May 31, 2010.
^ Spurn Railway . Retrieved September 13, 2009.
^ Teesmouth Lifeboat Supporters Association: History . Retrieved September 13, 2009.
↑ Information board in the Herne Bay Museum .
^ Group of men on a sailing truck, Carnarvon, ca.1906.
^ Boat's New Sail . Retrieved August 17, 2010.
^ Sail on the Rail
^ The Boat. Festipedia, FR Heritage Group.
^ Safety First , Ffestiniog Railway Magazine - Society House Magazine, Issue No. 4, p. 10, 1886.
↑ ^a ^b sail bogey on Mosapedia.
^ The American West.

[munro-1] Mike Munro: Sails on Rails . Retrieved August 17, 2010.

[2] ttp://www.karstenhansen.de/geschichte1.htm

[3] Sailing lorry for the Ketelswarft: With the power of the wind to the Hallig. The Insel Bote dated May 31, 2010.

[4] Spurn Railway . Retrieved September 13, 2009.

[5] Teesmouth Lifeboat Supporters Association: History . Retrieved September 13, 2009.

[HBmuseumdisplay-6] Information board in the Herne Bay Museum .

[7] Group of men on a sailing truck, Carnarvon, ca.1906.

[8] Boat's New Sail . Retrieved August 17, 2010.

[9] Sail on the Rail

[10] The Boat. Festipedia, FR Heritage Group.

[11] Safety First , Ffestiniog Railway Magazine - Society House Magazine, Issue No. 4, p. 10, 1886.

[Digedags-12] sail bogey on Mosapedia.

[13] The American West.