dandy cart
noun1
Rail transport, Railways, 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.
- Three examples of the dandy cart in which horses descended inclines at the rear of gravity-operated trains.1942 March, “The Dandy Cart”, in Railway Magazine, page 86, image caption:
- Synonyms
- dandy wagon, dandy waggon