Motor Trolley

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Motor Trolley

a demountable two-, four-, or six-seat trolley with a low-powered internal-combustion engine (for example, a motorcycle engine), designed to transport track workers, materials, and tools used for the inspection of railroad track, civil engineering works, and communications facilities. One or two special trailers can be connected to a motor trolley, each of which may carry ten people or a cargo of up to 1 ton. The maximum speed with the trailers is 50 km/hr. The weight of a motor trolley is 200–320 kg, and the weight of a trailer is 240 kg.

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Since the driver and the assistant driver of Jinnah express and a guard had lost their lives in the accident, the initial probe was done on the basis of site visits, interaction with available witnesses, analysis of evidence, scrutiny of stations' record, motor trolley, footplate inspections, analysis of automatic signaling system etc.

Inquiry blames driver, assistant for Hyderabad train crash

'This type of motor trolley patrolling will also be conducted on the sensitive sections between Karachi, Quetta and Sukkur Divisions,' they added.

Railways to deploy police trolley to protect trains

It said that the track inspection of Dadu Section from Unnar Pur to Gupang Stations was carried out by the Divisional Superintendent along with a team of all Divisional Officers on motor trolley due to non-availability of locomotive.