Railway

Railway

Relating to the infrastructure developed for the transport of trains.

Industry: Transportation

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Turntable

Transportation; Railway

Circular rotating table equipped with rails (crossing the circle's diameter with sometimes two perpendicular sets) used to turn locomotives or replace switch gear.

Shunting

Transportation; Railway

Use of shunting signals, radios, and so on, to move motive power units, power units hauling one or more vehicles and uncoupled vehicles.

Brakeman's cabin

Transportation; Railway

Brakemen's cabins were located at either end of the waggon and were used by the brakemen in charge of braking the trains. As air brakes along the train (automatic continuous brake) had yet to be ...

Sleepers to which rails are fixed are increasingly made of concrete and no longer of wood, with the majority of them featuring a twin-block design. They comprise two blocks of concrete joined by a ...

Booster

Transportation; Railway

Secondary steam engine generally acting on a locomotive's trailing carrying axle to provide extra traction when starting heavy trains. They were first tried in the UK in 1923, but they did not prove ...

Traverser

Transportation; Railway

Sideways-moving platform for shifting locomotives perpendicular to a set of parallel lines. They can still be found in certain depots and workshops, and even some stations.

Shunt-ahead signals

Transportation; Railway

Shunt-ahead signals are used exclusively for shunting. They are generally fixed close to the ground and are either represented by a small arm or disc. The arm is held in the horizontal position to ...