Transporter Wagon - Crocodile Wagons

Crocodile Wagons

The South Australian and Victorian Railways used broad gauge transporter wagons to carry narrow gauge wagons including locomotives to workshops and other isolated narrow gauge sections. In South Australia, these were called crocodile wagons. There does not appear to have been any attempt to operate train-loads of crocodile wagons to diminish the disadvantages of the break of gauge.

A key dimension is whether the narrow gauge wheels fit between the broad gauge wheels, or whether the narrow gauge wheels have to travel on top of the broad gauge wheels.

The GWR also had crocodile waggons, which may be where the name in Australia came from. One of these is now in the Didcot Railway Centre

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