rolling stock

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rolling stock

The equipment available for use as transportation, as automotive vehicles, locomotives, or railroad cars, owned by a particular company or carrier.

rolling stock

(Transport / Railways) the wheeled vehicles collectively used on a railway, including the locomotives, passenger coaches, freight wagons, guard's vans, etc.

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rolling stock - collection of wheeled vehicles owned by a railroad or motor carrier

wheeled vehicle - a vehicle that moves on wheels and usually has a container for transporting things or people; "the oldest known wheeled vehicles were found in Sumer and Syria and date from around 3500 BC"

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rolling stock n (Rail) → materiale m rotabile

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