dandy cart

English

Noun

dandy cart (plural dandy carts)

  1. (rail transport, historical) A wagon in which a horse could rest and travel downhill on a gravity-worked railway, before hauling wagons back up the incline.
    • 1942 March, “The Dandy Cart”, in Railway Magazine, page 86, image caption:
      Three examples of the dandy cart in which horses descended inclines at the rear of gravity-operated trains.

Synonyms
  • dandy wagon, dandy waggon
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