Articulated bogie

An articulated bogie is any one of a number of bogie designs that allow railway equipment to safely turn sharp corners, while reducing or eliminating the "screeching" normally associated with metal wheels rounding a bend in the rails. There are a number of such designs, and the term is also applied to train sets that incorporate articulation in the vehicle, as opposed to the bogies themselves.

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Locomotive running and valve gear

Valve gear types	Allan Baker Bagnall-Price Baguley Bulleid Caprotti Gab Gooch Gresley Hackworth Joy Kuhn slide Lentz Southern Stephenson Walschaerts

Bogie types	AAR type A switcher truck Articulated bogie Bissel truck Blomberg B Grovers bogie Jacobs bogie Krauss-Helmholtz bogie Pony truck Radial steering truck Schwartzkopff-Eckhardt II bogie

Other running gear elements	Adams axle Axlebox Beugniot lever Carrying wheel Coupled wheel Driving wheel Equalising beam Gölsdorf axle Journal box Klien-Lindner axle Leading wheel Luttermöller axle Radial axle Railway tire Trailing wheel Train wheel

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Articulated bogie

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