Car shuttle train

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Not to be confused with Auto Train or Motorail.

Eurotunnel Shuttle
train.

A car shuttle train, or (sometimes) car-carrying train, is a

automobiles
), and usually also bicycles and other types of road vehicles, for a relatively short distance.

Car shuttle trains usually operate on lines passing through a

rail tunnel
and connecting two places not easily accessible to each other by road. On car shuttle train services, the occupants of the road vehicles being carried on the train usually stay with their vehicle throughout the rail journey.

As such, car shuttle train services are to be contrasted with

passenger cars or in sleeping cars on longer journeys, while the cars or automobiles are loaded separately into autoracks, car carriers, or flatcars
that normally form part of the same train.

By country

Austria

Autoschleuse wagons in Mallnitz

Austrian Federal Railways
(ÖBB)

Between France and the United Kingdom

Main article:
Eurotunnel Shuttle

Accompanied road vehicles are carried in closed railway wagons through the

Channel Tunnel between Sangatte (Pas-de-Calais, France) and Cheriton (Kent, United Kingdom
). The car shuttle train is unique in that it is fully enclosed, and allows for double decker buses to travel in the same wagons as other regular passenger vehicles. Trucks going on the train travel in separate wagons that resemble cage-like frames, however.

Germany

The SyltShuttle operated by DB Fernverkehr and Autozug Sylt operated by Railroad Development Corporation transports road vehicles on railway wagons over the Hindenburgdamm from Niebüll, Schleswig-Holstein to Westerland in Sylt (or in the opposite direction).

Slovenia

Car shuttle trains operate on the Bohinj Railway between Bohinjska Bistrica and Most na Soči through the Bohinj Tunnel to Podbrdo.[2]

Switzerland

Autoverlad in Kandersteg

The following car shuttle trains operate in Switzerland (mostly through tunnels):

United Kingdom

The

Severn Tunnel Junction, which operated from 1926 until 1966. The service survived until it was made redundant by the Severn Bridge in 1966.[5][6] Motorail also operated on several British Rail routes from 1955 to 2005.[7]

United States

From the 1960s to 2000, the town of

shared vehicular and rail traffic.[citation needed
]

See also

References

  1. ^ In France, Motorail passengers and their vehicles are transported on two separate trains.
  2. ^ Trains (magazine) February 2009, p75
  3. ^ Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn - Fahrplan Autoverlad Oberalp Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Media release UVEK: Official reopening of the Gotthard Road Tunnel Archived 2004-08-31 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
  5. ISBN 0-7110-0304-1
    .
  6. ISBN 9781446356838
    .
  7. ^ Holmes, Godfrey (17 June 2018). "When Trains Takes the Strain: Why the UK Needs a Motorail Comeback". Independent.

External links

Media related to Transport of vehicles by rail at Wikimedia Commons

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