Railway

Railway

Relating to the infrastructure developed for the transport of trains.

Contributors in Railway

Railway

To produce steam, a steam engine needs a combustible (generally coal) and water. The quantities that could be carried were limited by the capacity of the tender, meaning that trains regularly had to ...

Signals

Transportation; Railway

Colour light signals first appeared in the UK in the 1920s. Except for certain removable signals (such as hand signals), signals are installed either on a permanent basis or provisionally (worksite ...

Butt-end

Transportation; Railway

Sheet of metal fixed to each end of a low-sided open wagon.

Water crane

Transportation; Railway

Device for supplying steam locomotives with water. They can be found in depots and stations throughout the journey (at the ends of the platforms) so that the locomotives can fill up their depleted ...

Simple adhesion

Transportation; Railway

System opposed to the rack and pinion system used in the mountains. Simple adhesion is the usual method used in the railway system, in other words there is nothing to prevent the train's wheels from ...