Railway

Railway

Relating to the infrastructure developed for the transport of trains.

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Railway

Block placed on the rail near the wheel of a stationary vehicle to stop it from moving. Metal wedge placed on a running rail at the exit to a goods yards, etc, to divert a train running in the wrong ...

Spectacle plate

Transportation; Railway

The transverse member mounted between the locomotive frames to the rear of the cylinders on which parts of the valve gear are hung. Sometimes wrongly used to describe the weather board (q.v.) at the ...

Stays

Transportation; Railway

The bolts which secure the inner firebox to the outer firebox. See firebox.

Steam

Transportation; Railway

Steam is the gas which is given off as a result of boiling water. The normal boiling point of water is 100?C. Unconfined steam will expand to about 1325 times the size of the water from which it ...

Steam brake

Transportation; Railway

First used by Stephenson in 1833 on his Patentee locomotive and tried in the US in 1848 on the Boston and Providence RR. Later widely used both separately and in conjunction with automatic brakes, ...

Tapered boiler

Transportation; Railway

A boiler design where the diameter at the smokebox end is smaller than at the firebox end. This was done so that the maximum area possible was available for heating around the firebox. A tapered ...

Tender

Transportation; Railway

The vehicle attached to a locomotive carrying water and coal (or other fuel). Some locomotives do not have tenders - see Tank Locomotive. The name 'Tender Locomotive' is sometime used to distinguish ...