Draisine
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A draisine is a light auxiliary rail vehicle, driven by service personnel, equipped to transport crew and material necessary for the maintenance of railway infrastructure.
Two-person rail-cycle draisine with four wheels, for leisure
Drais's dandy horse, called Draisine in German, whose name was inherited by the later rail vehicle. (Drawing published in 1817.)
Basic railbike-draisine
World record holding rail human powered vehicle (HPV) at Laupen 2001
Dandy horse
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The dandy horse, an English nickname for what was first called a Laufmaschine, then a vélocipède or draisienne, and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, or swiftwalker, is a human-powered vehicl
Draisine
…of railway infrastructure. The term is derived from the German inventor of a two-wheeled, foot-propelled conveyance Baron Karl Drais, who invented his Laufmaschine (German for "running machine") in 1817, which was called Draisine in German (vélocipède or draisienne in French) by the press. A dandy horse, it is the…
Wooden dandy horse (around 1820), a patent-infringing copy of the first two-wheeler
Johnson’s Ladies’ Walking Machine, sold in London 1818–1819
The remaining extant Johnson’s Ladies’ Walking Machine, in the Science Museum, London