Editing Trackless train (section)

{{Short description|Passenger transportation vehicle}}
{{Redirect|Land train|interconnected heavy-goods highway vehicles|Road train|interconnected rubber-tired public-transport vehicles|rubber-tyred tram|vehicles that could travel over almost any terrain|Overland train}}
{{Distinguish|tram}}
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[[File:Loro Parque land train.JPG|260px|thumb|right|A trackless train for tourists in [[Tenerife]]]]

A '''trackless train''' — or '''tram''' ([[U.S. English]]),<ref name="vl">{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-lnwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20 |pages=20–45 |title=Prime Archives in Transportation and Logistics |chapter=The Trackless Tram: Is It the Transit and City Shaping Catalyst We Have Been Waiting for? |isbn=9789390014026 |date=10 July 2020 |publisher=VIDE LEAF}}</ref> '''road train''', '''land train''',<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bridlingtonfreepress.co.uk/news/people/bridlington-land-train-service-extended-for-an-extra-week-until-sunday-november-7-3439850 |newspaper=[[Bridlington Free Press]] |title=Bridlington land train service extended for an extra week until Sunday, November 7 |date=1 November 2021 |access-date=24 November 2021}}</ref> or '''parking lot train''' is a [[road]]-going [[articulated vehicle]] used for the transport of [[passenger]]s, comprising a [[tractor unit|driving vehicle]] pulling one or more [[Trailer (vehicle)|carriages]] connected by [[Drawbar (haulage)|drawbar couplings]], in the manner of a road-going [[railway]] [[train]].
Similar vehicles may be used for transport of freight or baggage for short distances, such as at a factory or airport. Often depending on use, land train may or may not be [[skeuomorph]]ically styled to look like traditional, often [[steam train]]s.