Rollbock

Meaning

Noun

  • A bogie used to carry a railway carriage on a line of different gauge to the one it was built for, usually a narrower gauge.

Origin

  • From German Rolle ("roll") + Bock; the term originated in Switzerland in the early 1880s.

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