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Draisine

A draisine is a light auxiliary rail vehicle or trolley.

During the Second World War, armoured draisines were used in the Polish September Campaign. They were typically tanks or tankettes adapted with rail wheels and used as reconnaisance elements in advance of armoured trains.


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