Unit 3
Wagons and Carriages
Part 1 Goods Wagons
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1. What are wagons used for? Why there exist a wide variety of wagons? What do you think the most common type is?
A) Match the pictures and the names of wagon types.
A. B.
C. D.
E. F.
| 1 a covered wagon (or a van) (UK)/
boxcar (USA)
2 a flat (or a flat wagon) (UK)/flatcar (USA)
3 an open wagon (UK)/gondola (USA)
4 a tanker (UK)/a tank car (USA)
5 a refrigerator
6 an auto rack
7 a hopper
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G.
B) Name the commodities. Use the words from the box.
| milk mineral water fertilizers containers machinery pipes coal crushed rock flour vegetables fruit meat fish grain sand petroleum products flowers timber cars
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A. B. C.
D. E. F.
G. H. I.
J. K. L.
M. N. O.
P. Q.
R. S.
с) Use the words in a) and b) to make sentences.
An open wagon is used to carry coal, ore, coke, gravel and the like.
| Did you know?
In the USA the term ‘ rolling stock ’ is used to describe all the vehicles that move on a railway. It includes both powered and unpowered vehicles, for example locomotives, railroad cars and coaches. However, in the United Kingdom, the term is used to refer only to non-powered vehicles; specifically excluding locomotives which may be referred to as traction power or motive power. The Americans also use the term equipment (подвижной состав).
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| British English
goods wagon
van/ covered wagon
flat/flat wagon
open wagon
tanker/tank wagon
refrigerator van
hopper wagon
timber
luggage
| American English
freight car
boxcar
flatcar
gondola
tank car
refrigerator car
hopper car
lumber
baggage
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