Railway

Railway

Relating to the infrastructure developed for the transport of trains.

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Chain shunting

Transportation; Railway

Method of shunting outlawed in some countries whereby a locomotive on one track pulls waggons along another track by means of a long chain.

Window

Transportation; Railway

Refers to a carriage window. A window consists of the glass and the frame. A window that can be opened is called a drop window.

Splitting-up

Transportation; Railway

When splitting up cars as part of a sorting operation, the different cuts are pushed from the reception sidings to the hump. The cuts, moving under the effect of gravity, are directed towards the ...

Checker

Transportation; Railway

Employee whose duties include checking whether the vehicles are transport-worthy.

Wrong line/track

Transportation; Railway

Trains moving in the opposite direction to the normal direction for double tracks and temporary single tracks are said to be on the wrong line or track.

Standard gauge

Transportation; Railway

Railway track with the standard 1.435 m gauge, the most widely used gauge in the world.

Lower pantographs signals

Transportation; Railway

A distant signal, an execution signal and an end-of-section signal are used when lowering pantographs (especially common on the continent); these signals may be fixed or mobile, aspects or ...