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cab 
The driver's compartment of
a locomotive or railcar, etc.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
cabs
UF cab assembly
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <areas within vehicle body>
NT High Speed Train cab
NT locomotive cab
NT operating cab
RT cab component
cab assembly
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab assemblies
USE cab
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <bodywork areas>
cab communicating unit
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab communicating units
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driver/guard communication systems>
cab component
A component part of the
driving cab assembly.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab
components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <specific body components>
NT cab side
NT drivers windscreen
NT fall plate
NT pneumatic wiper
NT spectacle plate (cab component)
NT storm sheet
RT cab
cab control
A system of operating an
electric model railway whereby the operator controls the train as if he were in
the driver's cab.
Warrant: Railway Modeller ""Shows You How"" Booklet No 4,
Peco Publications, 1965
Plural form: cab controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driving and control components>
cab display unit
The unit provided in a
locomotive or multiple unit cab which interfaces with the radio electronic token
block system
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab display
units
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <ancillary gauges and instrumentation>
cab door interlock
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab door interlocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
cab heating
The heating system provided
in the driving cab of diesel and electric locomotives, etc.
Warrant: The
Diesel Locomotive, R L Aston, 1957
Plural form: cab heating
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
RT cab component
cab hinged door
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab hinged doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door
cab indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <ancillary gauges and instrumentation>
cab lighting
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab lighting
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <artificial lighting components>
RT cab component
cab side
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: cab sides
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT cab component
cab signal
A signal installed in the
driving cab of the train repeating or instead of lineside signals.
Warrant:
Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: cab signals
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <automatic train control indicators>
cab sliding door
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab sliding doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door
cab to cab control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab to cab controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driver/guard communication systems>
cab to cab indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab to cab indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driver/guard communication systems>
cab to cab telephone
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab to cab telephones
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driver/guard communication systems>
cable bracket (control cables)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cable brackets (control cables)
CL Control and communications
BT <electrical transmission>
cable bracket (traction supply)
A bracket fixed to a post or
other structure supporting overhead electric cables.
Warrant: Railway
Terminology Working Group
Plural form: cable brackets (traction supply)
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply structures>
cable capstan
A revolving cylinder around
which the cable is wound in cable haulage systems.
Warrant: Railway
Terminology Working Group
Plural form: cable capstans
CL Built works and components
BT <cable haulage structures and equipment>
cable drum carrier
A wagon adapted to carry
cable drums in such a way that they can be unrolled from the wagon during
overhead electrical installation, repair or renewal.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: cable drum carriers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for stores and consumables>
NT overhead line maintenance cable drum carrier
NT S&T cable drum carrier
cable haulage engine
An engine used to power a
haulage system where trains are drawn along by a rope, wire or chain cable.
Warrant: Cable or Rope Traction, J Bucknall Smith, 1887
Plural form: cable
haulage engines
UF beam engine (haulage)
CL Built works and components
BT <cable haulage structures and equipment>
RT cable haulage railway
cable haulage engine house
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cable haulage engine houses
UF engine house (stationary haulage)
CL Built works and components
BT <cable haulage structures and equipment>
cable haulage equipment
The equipment used to
operate a haulage system where trains are drawn along by a rope, wire or chain
cable, power being derived from a stationary engine or gravity acting via a
counterbalanced load.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cable
haulage equipment
CL Built works and components
BT <cable haulage structures and equipment>
RT cable haulage railway
cable haulage railway
A railway operated by wire,
rope or chain powered by a stationary engine.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cable haulage railways
CL Railway types
BT <stationary traction source>
NT counterbalanced railway
NT rope haulage railway
<cable haulage structures and equipment>
For cable rollers, pulleys,
etc. forming part of the track see Track and track components.
Plural form:
<cable haulage structures and equipment>
CL Built works and components
BT <stationary propulsion structures and equipment>
NT cable capstan
NT cable haulage engine
NT cable haulage engine house
NT cable haulage equipment
NT cable incline head gear
NT haulage cable
NT shunting capstan
<cable haulage systems>
A haulage system where
trains are drawn along by a rope, wire or chain cable, power being derived from
a stationary engine or gravity acting via a counterbalanced load.
Plural
form: <cable haulage systems>
CL Built works and components
BT <stationary propulsion systems>
RT cable haulage railway
cable haulage track component
Equipment placed on or
adjacent to the track to guide train haulage cables.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: cable haulage track components
CL Track and track components
BT <stationary propulsion track components>
NT pulley (rope haulage)
cable incline head gear
The operating equipment at
the top of a cable incline.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: cable incline head gears
CL Built works and components
BT <cable haulage structures and equipment>
cable post
A post to support the
overhead live cable on an electrified railway.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cable posts
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply structures>
cable tie
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cable ties
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply components>
caboose
US term for the last vehicle
on a train, accommodating the train crew and providing a vantage point for
inspection of the moving train.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: cabooses
USE brake van
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <braking vehicles>
cabside identification plate
Use
'cabside number plate' if appropriate. For any other kind of cabside plate, use
the appropriate term (e.g. 'works plate' for a cabside works plate, 'locomotive
plaque' for a commemorative paque affixed to the side of the cab, etc.).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cabside identification plates
USE cabside number plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive number plate
cabside number plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cabside number plates
UF cabside identification plate
UF cabside numberplate
UF locomotive cabside plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive number plate
cabside numberplate
Scope note
required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cabside
numberplates
USE cabside number plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive number plate
cabside plaque
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cabside plaques
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <commemorative vehicle plaques, etc.>
cabside plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cabside plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive number plate
calf barrow
A two-wheeled handcart
designed specifically for transporting calves.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: calf barrows
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station trolleys and barrows>
calf van
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of calves.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: calf
vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT cattle wagon
calling-on indicator
An indicator situated at
both ends of a train.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: calling-on
indicators
CL Control and communications
BT section indicator
calling-on signal
A signal used to indicate
that a driver may move past a stop signal at danger to a predetermined location,
or the adjacent signalbox from where he would receive further instruction.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: calling-on signals
CL Control and communications
BT subsidiary signal
camping coach
A railway coach adapted as
holiday accommodation and placed in sidings at suitable locations.
Warrant:
The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan
Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: camping coaches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load or function>
canal feeder railway
A railway operated by a
canal company to bring freight to a canal wharf or transhipment basin.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: canal feeder railways
CL Railway types
BT canal railway
canal railway
A railway built to serve the
transhipment and maintenance needs of a canal system (e.g. Manchester Ship Canal
Railway).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: canal railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways supporting other transport systems>
NT canal feeder railway
cancelling indicator (AWS)
A lineside indicator board
provided to advise drivers that an associated AWS indication does not apply in
the direction of travel.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
cancelling indicators (AWS)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <automatic train control indicators>
cannon box
A sleeve used to mount the
traction motor on its axle in electric power bogies.
Warrant: Locomotives
and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: cannon boxes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <electric motor components>
cant gauge
A gauge for measuring
the amount by which one rail is higher than the other.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: cant gauges
USE superelevation gauge
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
cant rail moulding
The horizontal moulding
placed over the joint between the top quarter panel and cant rail.
Warrant:
Railway Carriages and Wagons: Their design and construction (reprinted articles
from The Railway Engineer 1892-7), Sidney Stone, republished by Peter Kay, circa
1997.
Plural form: cant rail mouldings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body moulding
cantilever
A type of overhead line
support.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form:
cantilevers
CL Track and track components
BT overhead line equipment
cantrail
A longitudinal supporting
member for a carriage roof.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H
Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form:
cantrails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof component
Caprotti valve gear
A cam operated valve control
gear invented in 1921 by Arturo Caprotti.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web
Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: Caprotti valve gears
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear
capuchon
This is the French (general)
term for a cowl or hood. In British locomotive parlance it was simply a lip on
the leading edge of the chimney top, sometimes also known as a 'windjabber'. It
was mainly aesthetic, its absence on an engine normally fitted could change its
entire appearance, as could chimney profile in general.
Warrant: Great
Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: capuchons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive chimney
car card
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: car cards
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
car door
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: car doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door
car stop plate
A platform sign to indicate
to the driver of a multiple unit train the position at which the front of the
train should stop and by which the full length of the train would be at the
platform.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: car stop plates
CL Built works and components
BT <signs and markers>
car wire
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: car wires
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
car (railway vehicle)
A term for
any passenger or freight rail vehicle but in the UK used particularly for
underground vehicles. Also used where a US influence is present, e.g. Pullman
Car.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A
Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: cars (railway
vehicles)
USE passenger carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by generic name>
carbody
A passenger vehicle
excluding its bogies.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form:
carbodies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body
cardan shaft
A drive shaft with flexible
couplings provided between a motor and an axle to allow for the movements of the
axle relative to the motor.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares,
Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: cardan shafts
UF carden shaft
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
carden shaft
Scope note
required.
Warrant: Electric Locomotives and Railways, H Greenly, no date
p239
Plural form: carden shafts
USE cardan shaft
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
carline
A transverse member
supporting the roof of a wagon or carriage.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary,
An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: carlines
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof component
carriage
A railway vehicle for
carrying passengers.
Warrant: Oxford English Dictionary
Plural form:
carriages
USE railway carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by generic name>
<carriage and wagon tools and equipment>
Tools and equipment used for
building, maintaining and operating railway carriages and wagons.
Plural
form: <carriage and wagon tools and equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway operating tools and equipment>
NT gunpowder van key
NT lamp key
NT tyre gauge
NT wheel-tappers hammer
carriage and wagon works
A factory for the production
and maintenance of railway carraiges and wagons.
Warrant: Railway
Terminology Working Group
Plural form: carriage and wagon works
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair complexes>
carriage board
A long wooden board
attached to the cantrail of a passenger carriage, usually inscribed with the
destination of the train.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: carriage boards
USE carriage destination board
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <destination, etc. indicating equipment>
carriage component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <components by type of vehicle>
carriage destination board
A long wooden board attached
to the cantrail of a passenger carriage, usually inscribed with the destination
of the train.
Warrant: LNER Carriages, M Harris, David St John Thomas, 1994
Plural form: carriage destination boards
UF carriage board
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <destination, etc. indicating equipment>
carriage destination label
A label, usually of paper,
stuck to the inside of a carriage window to indicate the destination and
stopping places of that carriage.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: carriage destination labels
UF carriage label
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <destination, etc. indicating labels>
RT carriage destination board
RT carriage reservation label
carriage door handle
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage door handles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door handle
carriage door handle and lock
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage door handle and locks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
carriage door handle backplate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage door handle backplates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
carriage door loop handle
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage door loop handles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
carriage door slam lock mechanism
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage door slam lock
mechanisms
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
carriage examiners hut
A lineside hut, usually
situated in a yard or siding, for the use of a carriage examiner.
Warrant:
Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: carriage examiners huts
CL Built works and components
BT <vehicle stabling and servicing structures>
carriage finishing panel
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage finishing panels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body panel
carriage floor board
A board forming part of the
carriage floor.
Warrant: Railway Carriages and Wagons: Their design and
construction (reprinted articles from The Railway Engineer 1892-7), Sidney
Stone, republished by Peter Kay, circa 1997.
Plural form: carriage floor
boards
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT floor component
carriage gas key
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage gas keys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
carriage key
A universal key used for
locking and unlocking doors of railway carriages.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: carriage keys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
carriage label
Scope note
required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage labels
USE carriage destination label
PLUS carriage reservation label
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <destination, etc. indicating labels>
carriage lamp
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage lamps
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <artificial lighting components>
NT carriage roof lamp
carriage maintenance gauge (buckeye)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage maintenance gauges
(buckeye)
CL Tools and equipment
BT <rolling stock testing equipment and records>
carriage number plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage number plates
UF carriage plate
UF coach solebar plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT number plate
carriage plaque
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage plaques
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <commemorative vehicle plaques, etc.>
carriage plate
Use 'carriage number
plate' if appropriate. For any other kind of carriage plate, use the appropriate
term (e.g. 'works plate' for a carriage works plate, 'dimensions plate' for a
plate affixed to the end of the carriage giving principal dimensions,
etc.).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage plates
USE carriage number plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT number plate
carriage repair shop
A workshop which is used for
the maintenance and repair of railway carriages.
Warrant: Railway
Terminology Working Group
Plural form: carriage repair shops
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair structures>
carriage reservation label
A label, usually of paper,
stuck to the inside of a carriage window to indicate that the carriage has been
reserved for a particular party of travellers.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage reservation labels
UF carriage label
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT reservation label
RT carriage destination label
carriage roof board
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage roof boards
UF coach roofboard
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle roof board
carriage roof lamp
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage roof lamps
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT carriage lamp
carriage roof lamp protector
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage roof lamp protectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <artificial lighting components>
carriage section
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage sections
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <bodywork areas>
carriage shed
A depot for stabling,
servicing and maintaining railway carriages.
Warrant: Railway Terminology
Working Group
Plural form: carriage sheds
CL Built works and components
BT <vehicle stabling and servicing structures>
NT coach house
carriage side handle
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage side handles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <foot and hand holds>
carriage siding
A siding where carriages are
stabled.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage sidings
CL Track and track components
BT siding
carriage truck
A flat open wagon designed
to convey private horse drawn carriages or motor cars.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: carriage trucks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <road vehicle carrying stock>
NT covered carriage truck
NT open carriage truck
carriage ventilator
A device mounted in the roof
or walls of a railway vehicle to allow passage of air to the interior.
Warrant: British Railways Mark 1 Coaches, K Parkin, (2nd Ed) Pendragon Books,
1991
Plural form: carriage ventilators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT ventilator
carriage warming pressure gauge
A gauge in the cab
indicating the pressure in the train heating pipe.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage warming pressure gauges
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
RT <fuel and water controls and gauges>
RT <driving and control components>
carriage warming stop cock
A cock admitting steam from
the manifold to the train heating pipe.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: carriage warming stop cocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
RT <steam transmission components>
RT <driving and control components>
carriage warming valve
A reducing valve controlling
the pressure in the train heating pipe.
Warrant: Handbook for Railway Steam
Locomotive Enginemen, British Transport Commission, 1957 p70
Plural form:
carriage warming valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
RT <steam transmission components>
RT <driving and control components>
carriage water tank
A water tank provided on a
carriage to supply water to lavatory facilities, kitchens, etc.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: carriage water tanks
UF water tank (carriage component)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
carriage window finger plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage window finger plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT window component (vehicle)
carriage window glass
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage window glasses
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT window component (vehicle)
carriage window label
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage window labels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <destination, etc. indicating equipment>
carriage works plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage works plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT works plate
case wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of large packing cases that would be out of gauge if placed on a
general merchendise wagon.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: case
wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
NT deep case wagon
NT flat case wagon
cash bag
A bag of leather, cloth,
paper or plastic used for transporting cash.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cash bags
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
cask wagon
A vehicle adapted
specifically for the conveyance of beer casks.
Warrant: A Pictorial Record of
LNER Wagons, P Tatlow, Oxford Publishing Company, 1976 p76
Plural form: cask
wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <beer, etc. carrying vehicles>
casseyway
An archaic term used in
Scotland to describe a waggon way or tramway. The term was derived from
'causeway'.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: casseyways
USE tramway
CL Railway types
BT <railways by form>
cast iron fish bellied rail
An early form of cast iron
rail with concave under-section to add strength.
Warrant: Early Limestone
Railways, John van Laun, The Newcomen Society, 2001
Plural form: cast iron
fish bellied rails
CL Track and track components
BT fish bellied rail
RT cast iron rail
cast iron rail
Rail made from cast
iron.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cast iron rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by material>
cast iron sleeper
A support for the rails made
from cast iron placed between the rails and the ballast.
Warrant: Early
Limestone Railways, John van Laun, The Newcomen Society, 2001
Plural form:
cast iron sleepers
CL Track and track components
BT <sleepers by material>
catch pit
The point in the cess where
the drains cross and access is provided for rodding, maintenance etc.
Warrant: Gordon Reed, Permanent Way Institution
Plural form: catch pits
CL Track and track components
BT <track areas by function>
catch points
A pair of sprung trailing
points to derail any train running back without authority or out of control,
usually located on gradients steeper than 1 in 260.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon
Buster, 1999
Plural form: catch points
CL Track and track components
BT safety points
catch-handle locking lever frame
A lever frame where the
interlocking is actuated by the movement of the catch handle rather than by the
lever itself.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: catch-handle
locking lever frames
CL Control and communications
BT interlocking frame
catenary
Overhead wires under tension
which support the contact wire.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: catenaries
CL Track and track components
BT overhead line equipment
catering staff equipment
Tools and equipment used in
the production and serving of refreshments on railway stations and on
trains.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: catering staff
equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
cats eye
Slang for a position light
shunting or subsidiary signal.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: cats eyes
USE position light signal
CL Control and communications
BT <colour light signals by construction>
cattle dock
A fenced and gated platform
provided in goods yards to facilitate the transhipment of livestock.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cattle docks
CL Built works and components
BT platform
cattle van
A special railway wagon for
the transportation of livestock.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
cattle vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <livestock carrying vehicles>
cattle wagon
A railway vehicle used for
transporting cattle, the top half of which was fitted with bars rather than
boarding to allow the cattle to breathe.
Warrant: British Railways Wagons,
the first half million, D P Rowland, David & Charles, 1985
Plural form:
cattle wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <livestock carrying vehicles>
NT calf van
NT pedigree cattle wagon
cattle-cum-trespass deter guard
A
device provided adjacent to the carriageway at a level crossing or at the end of
platform ramps to deter animals and/or pedestrians from straying on to the
railway.
Warrant: Railtrack Group Standard
Plural form:
cattle-cum-trespass deter guards
USE cattle-cum-trespass guard
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
RT level crossing
cattle-cum-trespass guard
A device provided adjacent
to the carriageway at a level crossing or at the end of platform ramps to deter
animals and/or pedestrians from straying on to the railway.
Warrant: The
History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of
the National Railway Museum
Plural form: cattle-cum-trespass guards
UF cattle-cum-trespass deter guard
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
causeway
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: causeways
CL Built works and components
BT embankment
center pivot
The central post round which
a turntable rotates.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: center pivots
CL Unattributed
BT <unattributed>
centering device
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: centering devices
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
<central control>
Control levers and switches,
visual and audible displays and other human interfaces situated at a central
control point away from the equipment they actuate or are actuated by.
Plural form: <central control>
CL Control and communications
BT <point and signal actuation>
NT auto announcer indicator
NT control panel
NT emergency release
NT integrated electronic control centre
NT integrated electronic control centre component
NT lever frame
NT lever frame component
NT operators control unit
NT programme machine
NT reminder appliance
NT train number indicator
NT train register
NT <control centres by function>
NT <control displays and indicators>
centre balance signal
A semaphore signal pivoted
at its centre designed to return to danger by its distribution of weight.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: centre balance signals
CL Control and communications
BT semaphore signal
NT centre balance stop signal
centre balance stop signal
A signal arm incorporating a
central pivot point.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National
Railway Museum
Plural form: centre balance stop signals
CL Control and communications
BT centre balance signal
centre siding
A track laid between two
running lines for the purpose of reversing trains, usually beyond a station, to
allow a train to reverse direction without crossing a track carrying through
trains.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural
form: centre sidings
CL Track and track components
BT <shunting roads>
RT siding
<cereal carrying vehicles>
Railway vehicles dedicated
to the carriage of cereals.
Plural form: <cereal carrying
vehicles>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <foodstuff carrying vehicles>
NT bulk grain wagon
<ceremonial tools and equipment>
Tools and equipment used in
or produced by any ceremony connected with a railway, such as cutting the first
sod, opening, anniversaries, closure, etc.
Plural form: <ceremonial tools
and equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
NT <first sod cutting tools and equipment>
cess
The area either side of the
railway immediately off the ballast shoulder.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon
Buster, 1999
Plural form: cesses
CL Track and track components
BT drainage
chain drag
A device by which a hook
attached to a heavy chain is arranged to catch the axle of a moving wagon and so
bring it to a stand. First used at Edge Hill (L.&N.W.R.).
Warrant:
Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth & J T
Lee, Chas Sever, 1922
Plural form: chain drags
CL Track and track components
BT <vehicle stopping sub-assemblies>
chain driven locomotive
A locomotive where the
driving wheels are driven by a chain instead of coupling rods. An early example
was Stephenson's Killingworth locomotive.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: chain driven locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT mechanical transmission locomotive
chain (load securing)
A chain securing long or
bulky loads on a bolster or special wagon. Each end has a hook to attach on eyes
on the wagon side and the chain is tightened with a screw link.
Warrant:
John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: chains (load securing)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <load support and securing components>
chair fastening
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: chair fastenings
CL Track and track components
BT <rail support fastenings>
NT chair ferrule
NT chair spike
chair ferrule
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: chair ferrules
UF ferrule
CL Track and track components
BT chair fastening
chair spike
A heavy nail which holds a
chair to a sleeper.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: chair
spikes
UF spike (chair fastening)
CL Track and track components
BT chair fastening
chair (rail support)
A metal
casting which retains bullhead rail on wooden sleepers.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: chairs (rail support)
USE rail chair
CL Track and track components
BT <rail supports>
chaldron wagon
An early two-axle hopper
type coal wagon.
Warrant: Private Owner Wagons of the North East, Vol.1 The
Chaldrons, J A Elliott, Chilton Iron Works, 1994
Plural form: chaldron
wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coal hopper wagon
chalk quarry railway
An industrial railway
conveying chalk out of chalk quarries.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport
Trust
Plural form: chalk quarry railways
CL Railway types
BT quarry railway
changeover system
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: changeover systems
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
charging outlet
A shoe supply for recharging
the batteries of stabled carriages.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: charging outlets
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply components>
charter train
A special passenger train
hired (chartered) to a party or organisation for a special excursion.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: charter trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by instigation/scheduling>
NT chartered excursion train
NT special train
chartered excursion train
An excursion train chartered
by an individual or organisation rather than being run at the instigation of the
railway's commercial department.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: chartered excursion trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT charter train
RT excursion train
chassis
A complete frame and wheel
assembly.
Warrant: Building Model Locomotives - Model Railway News
Supplement - 1938 (Rev Beale)
Plural form: chassis
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT running gear
cheap day return ticket
A ticket valid for an
outward and return journey on the same day, offered at a discounted price to the
regular fare.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cheap day return
tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by discount, etc.>
check chair
A chair designed to support
both a running rail and a check rail.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design,
Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed, The Permanent Way Institution, 5th
Edition, 1979 p59
Plural form: check chairs
CL Track and track components
BT rail chair
NT combined chair and baseplate
NT crossing check chair
check rail
An additional rail placed
inside and parallel to running rails to guide wheel flanges at road and rail
crossings, viaducts, bridges and curves to ensure that the wheels stay on the
rail.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A
Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: check rails
UF guard rail
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by function>
check valve
A non return valve attached
to the boiler barrel or firebox of a steam locomotive to allow feed water to
enter the boiler whilst stopping the boiler contents from discharging.
Warrant: Steam Locomotion, E C Poultney & C R H Simpson, Caxton Publishing
Company, 1951
Plural form: check valves
UF clack
UF clack valve
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water feed components>
cheese van
A van specifically
designated for the carriage of cheese.
Warrant: Wagons on the LNER - North
British, John Hooper, Irwell Press, 1991 p17
Plural form: cheese vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <milk and dairy product carrying vehicles>
child snip ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: child snip tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by print features>
RT child ticket
child ticket
A ticket permitting a child
to travel at a lower fare than that charged for an adult passenger.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: child tickets
UF childs privilege return ticket
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type or age of traveller>
childs privilege return ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: childs
privilege return tickets
USE child ticket
PLUS privilege ticket
PLUS return ticket
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <examples of factored ticket types>
chimney
The often aesthetically
styled casting from which the exhaust of a steam locomotive emerges.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: chimneys
USE locomotive chimney
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT smokebox component
china clay wagon
A special vehicle dedicated
to the conveyance of china clay.
Warrant: An Illustrated History of West
Country China Clay Trains, John Vaughan, Oxford Publishing Company, 1999
Plural form: china clay wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mineral carrying vehicles>
chock
A wedge-shaped block of wood
used under a wheel to stop the vehicle from rolling away.
Warrant: Oxford
English Dictionary
Plural form: chocks
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
chopper control
An electric traction control
which eliminates the need for power resistors by causing the voltage to the
traction motors to be switched on and off (chopped) very rapidly during
acceleration.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: chopper controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <traction current transmission components>
chopper coupling
A combined centre buffer and
coupling, used mainly on narrow gauge railways.
Warrant: The Locomotive of
Today, Locomotive Publishing Company, 1927 Warrant: Great Western Railway
Drawing Registers
Plural form: chopper couplings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
cinder strip
A strip of angle iron fitted
to the roof of a locomotive cab to reduce the influx of ash from the chimney
when passing under a bridge or entering a tunnel.
Warrant: Railway Technical
Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: cinder strips
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof component
cinema coach
A passenger vehicle in which
films are shown, as employed by the LNER in the 1930s.
Warrant: Departmental
Coaching Stock, Roger Butcher & Peter Fox, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 3rd
edition, 1987
Plural form: cinema coaches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <exhibition vehicles, etc.>
circuit breaker
An automatic switch for
making and breaking an electrical circuit under normal or fault conditions.
Warrant: Encyclopedia of Railways, O S Nock, 1977
Plural form: circuit
breakers
CL Control and communications
BT <non-specific control equipment>
civil engineering
The design and
maintenance of works of public utility, such as roads, bridges, railways
etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: civil engineering
USE <route complexes>
CL Built works and components
BT <complexes>
civil engineering equipment
Tools and equipment used in
the construction of railway buildings, structures and track.
Warrant:
British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, G H Cope (Ed), The
Permanent Way Institution, 6th Edition, 1993
Plural form: civil engineering
equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT <permanent way tools and equipment>
NT bridge spanner
NT tunnelling machine
NT tunnelling shield
clack
A non return valve attached to
the boiler barrel or firebox of a steam locomotive to allow feed water to enter
the boiler whilst stopping the boiler contents from discharging.
Warrant:
Steam Locomotion, E C Poultney & C R H Simpson, Caxton Publishing Company,
1951
Plural form: clacks
USE check valve
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water feed components>
clack box
A box containing a
non-return valve located outside a locomotive boiler at the point where the
feedwater enters.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson
& F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: clack boxes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water feed components>
clack valve
A non return valve
attached to the boiler barrel or firebox of a steam locomotive to allow feed
water to enter the boiler whilst stopping the boiler contents from
discharging.
Warrant: Steam Locomotion, E C Poultney & C R H Simpson,
Caxton Publishing Company, 1951 Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: clack valves
USE check valve
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water feed components>
clack valve body
The housing in which the
clack valve sits.
Warrant: The Locomotive of Today, Locomotive Publishing
Company, 1927
Plural form: clack valve bodies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water feed components>
clamp lock
A point operating mechanism
which locks the points by directly clamping the closed switch rail to the stock
rail.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: clamp
locks
CL Control and communications
BT <point locking equipment>
clamp (point)
A device used to secure the
closed switch of a pair of points to the stock rail.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: clamps (point)
CL Control and communications
BT <point locking equipment>
clamplock heater
A cartridge type heater
fitted in the clamplock mechanism operating the points blades.
Warrant:
Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: clamplock heaters
CL Control and communications
BT <point locking equipment>
clasp brake
A brake where the wheel is
equipped with a block on each side of the wheel, as opposed to only one
side.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale
des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: clasp brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tread brake
clearance bar
A bar fixed on the
track at junctions or platforms, interlocked to signals, which cannot be cleared
until the bar is lifted. The bar cannot be raised when a vehicle is present.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: clearance bars
USE fouling bar
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical train detection, etc.>
clearance path extender
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: clearance path extenders
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
clearance test train
A train operated for the
purpose of testing bridge deflection under load, etc.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: clearance test trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT test train
clearing house
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: clearing houses
CL Built works and components
BT goods shed
clerestory
A raised longitudinal
central section of a coach roof fitted with ventilators and deck lights,
intended to give extra daylight and ventilation.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: clerestories
UF deck roof
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle body subassemblies>
clerestory carriage
A passenger vehicle
incorporating a raised central roof portion in order to enhance headroom,
lighting and ventilation.
Warrant: Midland Carriages - An Illustrated
Review, D Jenkinson & R J Essery, Oxford Publishing Company, 1984
Plural
form: clerestory carriages
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT clerestory stock
clerestory stock
Carriages incorporating a
raised central roof portion in order to enhance headroom, lighting and
ventilation.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: clerestory
stock
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by design feature>
NT clerestory carriage
climber for climbing telegraph poles
A device with metal spikes,
strapped to the leg and used to grip into wood for climbing telegraph poles.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: climbers for climbing telegraph
poles
CL Tools and equipment
BT <signal and telegraph maintenance equipment>
clinker
Solid matter produced by a
coal burning fire, especially under poor combustion conditions or with poor
quality fuel.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: clinker
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT spent fuel
clip profile
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: clip profiles
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
clip (points)
A device used to secure
the closed switch of a pair of points to the stock rail.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: clips (points)
USE points clip
CL Control and communications
BT <point locking equipment>
clip (rail)
A spring clip used to hold
flat bottomed rail to the baseplates.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: clips (rail)
USE rail clip (track fastening)
CL Control and communications
BT <point locking equipment>
cloakroom ticket
A ticket issued upon
temporary deposit of an article of luggage or other small item with the railway
authorities.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cloakroom
tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT non-travel ticket
clock card
A stiff card document
inserted into and stamped by a time clock on commencement and termination of
duties. Allowing worked time to be calculated for payment purposes.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: clock cards
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll documentation>
RT time clock
clocking-in clock
A device for
recording onto card, by printing, embossing or hole-punching, the time an
employee starts or finishes work.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: clocking-in clocks
USE time clock
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <employee timekeeping hardware>
clockwork locomotive
Locomotive propelled by a
clockwork mechanism. Used for model railways.
Warrant: Hornby Railways Ltd
Plural form: clockwork locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by power source>
close doors indicator
An indication that station
work is complete and power operated doors on trains may be safely closed.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British
Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: close doors
indicators
CL Control and communications
BT <signals from platform staff to driver/guard>
closed vehicle
A roofed railway
vehicle.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: closed vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by form>
NT powder wagon
NT tank wagon
closing switch
A switch located in
a signal box by means of which the signalling control circuit to the signal
boxes on either side may be connected together enabling the signalbox in which
the switch has been so operated to close if required.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: closing
switches
USE block switch
CL Control and communications
BT <block system working>
closing-up signal
A signal that is provided to
optimise headways and/or to provide earlier clearance of junctions on the
approach to stations.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway
Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: closing-up signals
CL Control and communications
BT running signal
closure rail
A rail in junctionwork
fitted between switch and crossing assemblies.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler
(Ed), The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979 p82
Plural form:
closure rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by installation>
RT switch (track sub-assembly)
RT crossing (track sub-assembly)
RT turnout
club car
A special car for men,
equipped for serving alcoholic drinks and light refreshments.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: club cars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by function>
clutch profile
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: clutch profiles
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
coach
A passenger carrying railway
vehicle.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: coaches
USE railway carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by generic name>
coach body
The basic body section of a
vehicle without internal fittings.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
coach bodies
UF body (coach)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body
coach body section
Part of a coach body cut
through vertically.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coach body
sections
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body
coach house
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coach houses
CL Built works and components
BT carriage shed
coach lamp
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coach lamps
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <artificial lighting components>
coach painting equipment
Tools and equipment used by
coach painters for painting and lining out railway vehicles.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: coach painting equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT paintshop tools and equipment
NT lining brush
coach roofboard
A board positioned
on the edge of a carriage roof of some passenger trains showing the principal
stopping stations en route or the name of the train.
Warrant: John Robinson,
The Transport Trust
Plural form: coach roofboards
USE carriage roof board
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <destination, etc. indicating equipment>
coach section
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coach sections
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body
coach solebar plate
Use 'carriage
number plate' if appropriate. For any other kind of carriage solebar plate, use
the appropriate term (e.g. 'works plate' for a carriage works plate).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coach solebar plates
USE carriage number plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT number plate
coach waybill
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coach waybills
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <passenger traffic accounting>
coaching stock
Rolling stock built to
passenger traffic specifications.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport
Trust
Plural form: coaching stock
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by traffic rating>
coal bunker
An enclosure for containing
coal, usually behind the cab of a steam locomotive.
Warrant: Locomotives and
Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: coal bunkers
UF bunker
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel storage components>
coal cells
A coal storage facility
divided into a series of separate compartment.
Warrant: North-Eastern Branch
Line Termini, K Hoole, Oxford Publishing Company, 1985
Plural form: coal
cells
CL Built works and components
BT <freight transhipment structures>
coal door
The door provided for access
to the fuel in the tender or bunker of a steam locomotive.
Warrant: Great
Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: coal doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel storage components>
coal drops
A raised area from which
coal is discharged from wagons into coal cells, ships etc.
Warrant: Jim
Rees, Beamish North of England Open Air Museum
Plural form: coal drops
CL Built works and components
BT <freight transhipment structures>
coal fired locomotive
A steam locomotive which
uses coal as the source of energy to generate steam.
Warrant: American
Locomotives An Engineering History 1830 - 1880, John H White, The John Hopkins
Press, 1968
Plural form: coal fired locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by fuel>
coal hammer
A blunt edged hammer used
for breaking up large lumps of coal in to pieces suitable for firing a steam
locomotive.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coal hammers
UF firemans coal hammer
CL Tools and equipment
BT firemans equipment
coal hopper wagon
A wagon with a hopper shaped
load space from which coal is discharged through doors in the floor of the
wagon.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: coal
hopper wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coal wagon
NT chaldron wagon
coal pusher
A mechanical device for
pushing the coal forward in the tender of a steam locomotive to make it easier
for the fireman to reach from the footplate.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their
Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural
form: coal pushers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel supply components>
coal rail
A strip, or several strips,
of steel arranged around the top of a locomotive tender or bunker to increase
the capacity and to stop coal from falling off the tender onto the track.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: coal rails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel storage components>
coal stage
A platform from which steam
locomotives are loaded with coal.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: coal stages
CL Built works and components
BT <motive power stabling and servicing structures>
RT motive power depot
coal train
A train composed entirely of
coal carrying wagons.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coal
trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT freight train
coal wagon
A freight vehicle dedicated
to the conveyance of coal.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: coal wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mineral carrying vehicles>
NT coal hopper wagon
NT coke wagon
coaling stage
A special track raised above
the surrounding track level so that coal wagons can be raised to allow them to
be discharged into locomotive tenders.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: coaling stages
CL Built works and components
BT <motive power stabling and servicing structures>
coaling tower
A tower which straddles the
railway track enabling coal to be discharged from above into the tender of a
steam locomotive.
Warrant: Top Shed, P N Townend, Ian Allan Ltd, 2nd Edn,
1989
Plural form: coaling towers
CL Built works and components
BT <motive power stabling and servicing structures>
coating system
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coating systems
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
code trip valve
An electrically operated
pneumatic valve used to apply the emergency brake in the event of loss of the
ATP signal on the 1967 Tube Stock.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural
form: code trip valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <on-train automatic train protection equipment>
RT brake gear
coffee pot (locomotive)
A
locomotive with a vertical boiler.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: coffee pots
USE vertical boilered locomotive
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by boiler characteristics>
coffin carrier
An enclosed platform trolley
to convey corpses between hearse and train.
Warrant: John Robinson, The
Transport Trust
Plural form: coffin carriers
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station trolleys and barrows>
coin acceptor
A device in a booking office
for checking the integrity of tendered coins.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coin acceptors
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
coin acceptor mechanism
The internal mechanism of a
device in a booking office for checking the integrity of tendered coins.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coin acceptor mechanisms
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
coin bag
A bag of leather, cloth,
paper or plastic used for transporting coins.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coin bags
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
coke wagon
A freight vehicle dedicated
to the conveyance of coke.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coke
wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coal wagon
collapsible gate
A folding gate used to close
lifts, gangways or platforms against access.
Warrant: John Robinson, The
Transport Trust
Plural form: collapsible gates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
collar chair
A chair designed to support
the legs of a crossing beyond the end of the wing rails.
Warrant: Railway
Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas
Sever, 1922 p174
Plural form: collar chairs
CL Track and track components
BT rail chair
collecting pipe
A pipe for the collection of
the steam from the top of the boiler, used on boilers where the regulator valve
was not housed in a dome.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers
Connor, 2000
Plural form: collecting pipes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam transmission components>
collector shoe
A third rail current
collection device mounted on the bogie of a direct current electric train.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: collector shoes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
colliery railway
A private railway serving
coal mine.
Warrant: A Railway History of Denaby & Cadeby Collieries, A J
Booth, Industrial Railway Society, 1990
Plural form: colliery railways
CL Railway types
BT mineral railway
NT waggonway
colloidal fuel
A semi liquid mixture of
powdered coal and oil sprayed into the locomotive firebox with the assistance of
steam pressure.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: colloidal fuels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT fuel
colour card
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: colour cards
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
colour light head
A casting
containing one or more colour light signal aspects.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: colour light
heads
USE colour light signal head
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
colour light signal
A signal using a beam of
electric light, by day or night, to show the aspect.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: colour light signals
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by form>
NT < colour light signals by construction>
NT <colour light signals by number of aspects>
colour light signal head
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: colour light signal heads
UF colour light head
UF signal head
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
colour light signal head component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: colour light signal head
components
UF signal head component
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
<colour light signals by construction>
Colour light signals grouped
by the way they are constructed and operate.
Plural form: <colour light
signals by construction>
CL Control and communications
BT colour light signal
NT position light signal
NT searchlight signal
<colour light signals by number of
aspects>
Colour light signals grouped
by the number of aspects that they can display.
Plural form: <colour
light signals by number of aspects>
CL Control and communications
BT colour light signal
NT multiple-aspect signal
NT two-aspect signal
combination brake and ejector valve
Scope note required.
Warrant: Locomotive Management, 10th edition, J T Hodgson & C S Lake,
revised by W B Oaten, Tothill Press, 1954
Plural form: combination brake and
ejector valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake controls>
combination ejector for vacuum brake
Scope note required.
Warrant: Locomotive Management, 10th edition, J T Hodgson & C S Lake,
revised by W B Oaten, Tothill Press, 1954
Plural form: combination ejectors
for vacuum brake
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT ejector
combination injector
A device for feeding water
into the boiler of a steam locomotive boiler capable of using either exhaust
steam or live steam.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson
& F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: combination
injectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT injector
combination injector/ejector
Scope note required.
Warrant: Locomotive Management, 10th edition, J T Hodgson & C S Lake,
revised by W B Oaten, Tothill Press, 1954
Plural form: combination
injector/ejectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT injector
RT ejector
combination lever
A component of Walschaerts
valve gear which links the movement of the crosshead and the valve spindle.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: combination
levers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear component
combination valve
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: combination valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
combined chair and baseplate
A combined chair and
baseplate designed to support both a flat bottomed running rail and a bullhead
check rail.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and
Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed, The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979
p71
Plural form: combined chair and baseplates
CL Track and track components
BT check chair
RT rail baseplate
combined steam and delivery valve
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: combined steam and delivery
valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water feed components>
combined traction brake controller
The device used by train
operators to control both motoring and braking under manual driving.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: combined traction brake
controllers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <speed regulation components>
RT <brake controls>
<commemorative vehicle plaques, etc.>
Plaques, plates, etc.
carried by locomotives and occasionally other vehicles to commemorate some
special event, etc.
Plural form: <commemorative vehicle plaques,
etc.>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle identity and instruction plates>
NT cabside plaque
NT carriage plaque
commencement indicator
A speed indicator.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British
Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: commencement
indicators
CL Control and communications
BT temporary speed restriction sign
COMMERCIAL RECORDS AND EQUIPMENT
Records and equipment
associated with the commercial operation of a railway company or network
including ticketing, freight invoicing and routing, advertising, etc. Includes
general administration, finance and personnel management but does not include
rules and regulations (e.g. rule book) or equipment and records concerned with
the safe and efficient working of trains (e.g. weekly traffic notices). These
are covered by the Control and communications class. Commercial buildings
are included in the Built works class.
CL Commercial records and equipment
Hierarchies
NT <accounting records and equipment>
NT <administration>
NT <advertising and publicity>
NT <asset management>
NT <documents by form>
NT <payroll records and equipment>
NT <staff management systems>
commercial travellers luggage and samples
ticket
A ticket for luggage and
samples accompanying a commercial traveller.
Warrant: Sligo, Leitrim &
Northern Counties Railway, Neil Sprinks, Midland Publishing, 2001 p78
Plural
form: commercial travellers luggage and samples tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT accompanied luggage ticket
commode rail
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: commode rails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <foot and hand holds>
common chair
The standard chair used on
plain line track.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and
Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed, The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979
p59
Plural form: common chairs
CL Track and track components
BT rail chair
common crossing
The element in junctionwork
where the intersecting running rails cross one another at an acute angle.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler
(Ed, The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979 p82
Plural form:
common crossings
CL Track and track components
BT crossing (track sub-assembly)
common user railway
A railway that is available
for any operator to use.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: common user railways
CL Railway types
BT public railway
commonwealth bogie
A bogie where the primary
suspension is arranged by attaching a longitudinal steel bar to each pair of
axleboxes and depositing the bogie frame onto a pair of coil springs resting on
the bar.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural
form: commonwealth bogies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bogie
communication system
The means of passenger alarm
communication.
Warrant: Railway Designs Since 1830, Brian Haresnape, 1968
Plural form: communication systems
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <on-train communications equipment>
<communications>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <communications>
CL Control and communications
NT linemans board
NT <radio communication>
NT <telegraphy>
NT <telephony>
commutator (block telegraph component)
An instrument in a signalbox
used to register the number of trains admitted to a permissive line.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: commutators
CL Control and communications
BT block instrument
commutator (locomotive component)
Scope note required.
Warrant: Electric Locomotives and Railways, H Greenly, no date p175
Plural
form: commutators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <electric motor components>
commuted charge plate
A yellow plate bearing two
letters 'C', one enclosing the other, attached to a private owner wagon (usually
on the solebars) in order to indicate that the owner was party to the RCH
'Commuted Charge' scheme and therefore exempted from individual payments for
shunting, etc.
Warrant: GWR Goods Services: An introduction, T Atkins &
D Hyde, Wild Swan Publications, 2000 p42
Plural form: commuted charge
plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <accounting plates, etc.>
commuted empty haulage plate
A plate bearing a yellow
five-pointed star, attached to a private owner wagon (usually on the solebars)
in order to indicate that the owner was party to the RCH 'Commuted Empty
Haulage' scheme and therefore exempted from individual payments for empty
haulage back to its home depot.
Warrant: GWR Goods Services: An
introduction, T Atkins & D Hyde, Wild Swan Publications, 2000 p42
Plural
form: commuted empty haulage plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <accounting plates, etc.>
company seal
The official signature of
the Railway Company as a Body Corporate. As such an impression of the company
seal was attached to all official deeds and legal documents given under the
company's name.
Warrant: Railway Heraldry, G Dow, David & Charles, 1973
Plural form: company seals
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <corporate identity>
compartment
A partitioned-off section of
a carriage, usually with seats facing and opposite to the direction of travel,
often with a corridor along one side running for the whole or part of the length
of the vehicle.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form:
compartments
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <areas within vehicle body>
NT coupe (compartment)
compartment carriage
A passenger coach with
separate compartments (non-corridor).
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport
Trust
Plural form: compartment carriages
UF compartment coach
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
compartment coach
A passenger coach
with separate compartments (non-corridor).
Warrant: John Robinson, The
Transport Trust
Plural form: compartment coaches
USE compartment carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
<complete units>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <complete units>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT multiple unit stock
NT electric multiple unit
NT multiple unit
<complexes by form>
Complexes grouped by their
physical form rather than the activity with which they are associated.
Plural form: <complexes by form>
CL Built works and components
BT <complexes>
NT railway depot
NT railway yard
<complexes>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <complexes>
CL Built works and components
NT <complexes by form>
NT <construction and repair complexes>
NT <marshalling complexes>
NT <power supply complexes>
NT <route complexes>
NT <transhipment complexes>
NT <vehicle stabling and servicing complexes>
<component identifier>
A plate or label identifying
a particular component such as an indicator light, pipe run, etc.
Plural
form: <component identifier>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle identity and instruction plates>
NT lubricator pipe description plate
<components by type of vehicle>
Generally, components can be
related to any specific type of vehicle with which they are associated by adding
'component' to the preferred term for the type of vehicle. Thus a brake cylinder
from a fitted mineral wagon would be indexed as 'mineral wagon component' in
addition to 'vacuum brake cylinder'. However, one or two specific terms are
included here as they provide a convenient place to accommodate components that
are very specific to certain vehicle types and not easily accommodated
elsewhere.
Plural form: <components by type of vehicle>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle component
NT carriage component
NT locomotive component
NT railcar component
NT wagon component
NT <rope worked stock components>
composite carriage
A passenger vehicle which
incorporates two or more classes of passenger accommodation.
Warrant:
Railway Passenger Class Distinctions, Charles E Lee, Railway Gazette, 1946
Plural form: composite carriages
UF composite coach
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by class>
NT tricomposite carriage
composite coach
A carriage with
seating for passengers of different classes and/or guards compartment.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: composite coaches
USE composite carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
compound locomotive
A steam locomotive in which
the expansion of steam is divided into two stages. Two types of cylinder are
fitted, the high pressure ones taking steam direct from the boiler and then
passing it in partially-expanded state into low pressure cylinders.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: compound locomotives
UF compound (locomotive)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <piston driven steam locomotives>
NT von Borries compound locomotive
compound (locomotive)
A steam
locomotive in which the expansion of steam is divided into two stages. Two types
of cylinder are fitted, the high pressure ones taking steam direct from the
boiler and then passing it in partially-expanded state into low pressure
cylinders.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: compounds
(locomotive)
USE compound locomotive
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <piston driven steam locomotives>
comprehensive approach locking
Approach locking including
controls which will allow the immediate release of approach locking if no train
is approaching the signal.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway
Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: comprehensive approach locking
CL Control and communications
BT <electrical interlocking equipment>
compressed air transmission locomotive
A locomotive driven by
compressed air which is stored at very high pressure in cylinders on the
locomotive, often used in mines where ignition sources are banned.
Warrant:
Modern Railway Traction, Railway Manufacturers Association, undated
Plural
form: compressed air transmission locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by transmission>
<compression ignition engined
locomotives>
Scope note required.
Warrant: Modern Railway Traction
Plural form: <compression ignition
engined locomotives>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT internal combustion locomotive
NT diesel locomotive
NT oil engined locomotive
concentric conductor
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: concentric conductors
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
concrete monolithic sleeper
A sleeper or track tie made
from a single slab of concrete.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design,
Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed), The Permanent Way Institution,
5th Edition, 1979 p50
Plural form: concrete monolithic sleepers
UF through-type concrete sleeper
CL Track and track components
BT concrete sleeper
concrete sleeper
A sleeper or track tie made
from concrete, used to support two running rails at a fixed gauge.
Warrant:
British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, G H Cope (Ed), The
Permanent Way Institution, 6th Edition, 1993
Plural form: concrete
sleepers
CL Track and track components
BT <sleepers by material>
NT concrete monolithic sleeper
NT twin block reinforced sleeper
condemned stock siding
A siding where condemned
vehicles are stored pending disposal.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: condemned stock sidings
UF scrap road
CL Track and track components
BT siding
condensing locomotive
A steam locomotive designed
to condense the exhausted steam for re-use.
Warrant: The Engineer (Magazine)
Plural form: condensing locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by exhaust disposal>
conductor rail
An additional rail or rails
provided on those electric railways where power is transmitted to trains from
the track.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: conductor rails
UF current rail
CL Track and track components
BT conductor rail equipment
NT double end electrical section
NT negative conductor rail
NT positive conductor rail
NT stub end
<conductor rail collection components>
Vehicle components concerned
with the collection of traction current from conductor rails. For general
electrical circuitry, see <electrical circuitry>.
Plural form:
<conductor rail collection components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power collection components>
NT collector shoe
NT conduit plough
NT negative shoe compensating gear
NT negative shoebeam
NT pick-up shoe
NT pigtail
NT positive shoebeam
NT shoe
NT shoe ball boot
NT shoe collector
NT shoe paddle
NT shoe strap
NT shoegear
NT shoegear retraction system
NT sled collector
RT <electrical circuitry>
conductor rail equipment
Equipment placed on the
track that transmits electric traction current to the train.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: conductor rail equipment
CL Track and track components
BT <traction electricity supply equipment>
NT bond
NT conductor rail
NT conductor rail insulator
NT conductor rail insulator clamp
NT gap
NT gap jumper
NT third rail electric railway equipment
conductor rail insulator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: conductor rail insulators
UF insulator (conductor rail)
CL Track and track components
BT conductor rail equipment
conductor rail insulator clamp
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: conductor rail insulator clamps
CL Track and track components
BT conductor rail equipment
conduit collection locomotive
A locomotive designed to
collect its electric power from a protected trench below the running rails.
Warrant: Electric Locomotives and Their Development, Henry Greenly pp1-38
Plural form: conduit collection locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <electric locomotives by current collection>
conduit plough
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: conduit ploughs
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
coned boiler
A boiler design where the
diameter at the smokebox end is smaller than at the firebox end so that the
maximum area possible was available for heating around the firebox. It was
adopted in the interests of saving weight.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web
Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: coned boilers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler
conflat wagon
A flat open wagon for
carrying containers.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form:
conflat wagons
USE container flat wagon
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT container wagon
conjugated valve gear
The system for operating the
valves of a third cylinder by means of levers driven by the motion of the valve
gear of the other two cylinders.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R
H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form:
conjugated valve gears
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear
connecting link
Scope note required.
Warrant: Orenstein and Koppel publicity material
Plural form: connecting
links
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear component
connecting rod
The rod which connects the
piston rod at the crosshead (little end) to the crank pin (big end) to power the
driving wheels.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural
form: connecting rods
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
NT outside connecting rod
connecting rod big end
The bearing fitted within
the connecting rod encircling the crank pin.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: connecting rod big ends
UF locomotive connecting rod big end
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
connecting rod (point)
A bar
connecting two tongue rails or switch blades and holding them in the required
position in relation to the stock rail and the track gauge.
Warrant: Railway
Appliances, John Wolf Barry, Longmans, Green and Co, 1876 p82
Plural form:
connecting rods (point)
USE stretcher bar
CL Track and track components
BT <cross ties>
consignment bill
A document relating to the
shipment of goods by the railway.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: consignment bills
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
consignment note
A listing for each 'batch'
of goods.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: consignment notes
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
console ventilation system
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: console ventilation systems
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
consolidation locomotive
A locomotive with a 2-8-0
wheel arrangement.
Warrant: Locomotive Cyclopedia of American Practice, 13th
Edition, 1947
Plural form: consolidations
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT eight coupled locomotive
<construction and repair complexes>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <construction and repair complexes>
CL Built works and components
BT <complexes>
NT carriage and wagon works
NT locomotive works
NT permanent way works
NT signal and telegraph works
RT <works structures>
<construction and repair structures>
Buildings and other
structures connected with the construction and heavy repair of railway equipment
of all kinds.
Plural form: <construction and repair structures>
CL Built works and components
BT <single built works>
NT carriage repair shop
NT lifting shop
NT locomotive repair shop
NT repair shop
NT wagon repair shop
NT works building
<consumables storage and handling
components>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <consumables storage and handling components>s
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle component
NT < fuel storage and handling components>
NT <water storage and handling components>
<consumables>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <consumables>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
NT fuel
NT waste product
contact pyrometer
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: contact pyrometers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
contact wire
An overhead wire which an
electric train's pantograph actually touches in order to draw power.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: contact wires
CL Track and track components
BT overhead line equipment
container control board
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: container control boards
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
container flat wagon
A flat open wagon for
carrying demountable containers.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
container flat wagons
UF conflat wagon
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT container wagon
container wagon
A wagon designed or
specially adapted for carrying demountable containers.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: container wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load or function>
NT container flat wagon
NT Freightliner wagon
container (demountable)
A large box
or tank which can be lifted on and off both rail and road vehicles to facilitate
transhipment.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form:
containers (demountable)
USE demountable container
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by form>
<containers by service>
Demountable freight
containers specially built for particular containerised rail services.
Plural form: <containers by service>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT freight container
NT Freightliner container
NT Speedfreight container
contenary
A special type of overhead
wire used where clearances are tight.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: contenaries
CL Track and track components
BT overhead line equipment
continuous blowdown valve
A valve provided in the
firebox backplate, having a connection above the crown, to drain a small
measured quantity of water from the boiler continuously whenever the regulator
is open or the injector is on. This is done to keep down the concentration of
soluble salts in the boiler water to minimise priming.
Warrant: Handbook for
Railway Steam Locomotive Enginemen, British Transport Commission, 1957 p69
Plural form: continuous blowdown valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT blowdown valve
continuous brake
A system of braking all
vehicles in a train simultaneously under the control of driver or guard which is
also self-applying in the event of severance of the train or other failure in
the continuity of brake action.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: continuous brakes
UF automatic brake
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
NT automatic air brake
NT electro-pneumatic brake
NT vacuum brake
continuous welded rail
Rails welded together to
form a single rail length over 36m, or 55m in tunnels with a limited temperature
range.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: continuous
welded rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by treatment>
RT continuous welded track
continuous welded rail train
A train of semi-permanently
coupled wagons to convey train loads of continuously welded rail for
end-discharge at the track renewal site.
Warrant: John Robinson, The
Transport Trust
Plural form: continuous welded rail trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT service train
continuous welded track
Track constructed using
rails welded together to form a single rail length over 36m, or 55m in tunnels
with a limited temperature range.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: continuous welded track
CL Track and track components
BT <track by jointing>
RT continuous welded rail
contractors line
A line promoted (at least in
part) and built by a contractor who was willing to accept all or some of their
payment in shares, or bonds guaranteeing payment in the future.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: contractors lines
CL Railway types
BT joint stock railway
RT contractors railway
contractors locomotive
A steam locomotive designed
or used to move vehicles on contractors' temporary railways or tramways.
Warrant: Hunslet Engine Company Catalogues
Plural form: contractors
locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by operating environment>
contractors railway
A temporary railway laid to
facilitate a major construction project.
Warrant: Lesser Railways of Bowland
Forest and Craven Country, H D Bowtell, Plateway Press, 1988
Plural form:
contractors railways
CL Railway types
BT temporary railway
NT reservoir railway
NT road building railway
RT contractors line
contractors track
Temporary track
laid by the contractor during the building of a railway or other civil
engineering or construction enterprise.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: contractors tracks
USE temporary track
CL Track and track components
BT <track by permanence>
CONTROL AND COMMUNICATIONS
Structures and equipment
associated with the control of trains. Includes operating rules and regulations,
timetabling, train rostering, train control, signalling and telecommunications.
Signalling covers the operation of points and signals, block signalling,
automatic train control, road level crossings, etc. This class does not include
public timetables (these are covered by the Commercial records and
equipment class). Control buildings are included in the Built works
class. Some communications equipment used by staff other than signalling
operators is allocated to the Tools and equipment class (e.g. guards'
whistles and flags, lookout's horns and flags).
CL Control and communications
Hierarchies
NT <communications>
NT <non-specific>
NT <rules and operating instructions>
NT <signalling>
NT <timetabling>
NT <train control>
<control centres by function>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <control centres by function>
CL Control and communications
BT <central control>
NT fringe signal box
NT gate box
NT shunting frame
<control displays and indicators>
Visual displays and audible
or visual indicators situated at a central control point to provide information
for the operator. Control panels that combine route setting switches with visual
displays are not included here (see control panel). Block telegraph instruments
that give a visual indication of the state of the block section are treated as
train protection equipment even when they have a purely passive function as
section indicators (e.g. non-pegging instruments).
Plural form: <control
displays and indicators>
CL Control and communications
BT <central control>
NT annunciator (track circuit)
NT track circuit indicator
NT track circuit repeater
NT track diagram
NT <signal confirmation>
control panel
A desk or board from which
the signalling system is operated.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: control panels
CL Control and communications
BT <central control>
NT entrance-exit panel
NT local panel
NT one control switch panel
NT route setting panel
<control structure components>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <control structure components>
CL Built works and components
BT <built work components>
NT signal box component
<control structures>
Buildings and other
structures concerned with control and communications functions. Signals are
excluded, see Control and communications class.
Plural form: <control
structures>
CL Built works and components
BT <single built works>
NT crossing box
NT crossing keepers cottage
NT lever frame cabin
NT signal box
NT track sectioning cabin
<control transmission>
Equipment that transmits
control from the control point to the equipment to be actuated. Includes
equipment such as point rodding, signal wires, etc. and their associated
pulleys, cranks, bearings, etc.; electrical cables and relays; pneumatic
pipework; etc.
Plural form: <control transmission>
CL Control and communications
BT <point and signal actuation>
NT < electrical interlocking equipment>
NT <electrical transmission>
NT <mechanical transmission>
NT <pneumatic transmission>
controlled signal
A signal that is controlled
to red (other than by emergency replacement switch or signal post replacement
switch) from a signal box or ground frame.
Warrant: The History &
Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National
Railway Museum
Plural form: controlled signals
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by control method>
conventional locomotive
A locomotive built to
established 'conventional' principles.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: conventional locomotives
UF conventional steam locomotive
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by innovation>
NT conventional steam locomotive
conventional steam locomotive
A
steam locomotive built to established 'conventional' principles. Use for
recording object name only. For indexing purposes factor into 'steam
locomotive' and 'conventional locomotive'.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: conventional steam locomotives
USE conventional locomotive
PLUS steam locomotive
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT conventional locomotive
convertible bulk grain wagon
A covered van with floor,
side and roof doors and moveable internal partitions enabling it to serve as a
covered hopper wagon for the conveyance of grain in bulk when required, whilst
being available for general merchandise traffic at other times. Vehicles were
produced by the LNER and GWR but once bulk grain movements became well
established, the type became obsolete.
Warrant: A Pictorial Record of LNER
Wagons, P Tatlow, Oxford Publishing Company, 1976 p66
Plural form:
convertible bulk grain wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bulk grain wagon
RT hopper wagon
corner pillar
A vertical structural member
forming the corner of the vehicle body.
Warrant: Railway Carriages and
Wagons: Their design and construction (reprinted articles from The Railway
Engineer 1892-7), Sidney Stone, republished by Peter Kay, circa 1997.
Plural
form: corner pillars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT side framing
NT deck roof corner pillar
corner plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: corner plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <body side components>
<corporate identity>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <corporate identities>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <asset management>
NT armorial device
NT company seal
NT crest (armorial device)
NT livery sample
NT logo
NT totem
corridor
A passageway through a
passenger vehicle giving access to the various compartments.
Warrant: John
Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: corridors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <areas within vehicle body>
corridor carriage
A passenger vehicle with a
through corridor.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural
form: corridor carriages
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
corridor key
A special universal key used
for locking and unlocking the end doors or railway carriages giving access to
the corridor from the vestibule end.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: corridor keys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
corridor tender
A locomotive tender
vestibuled to its train and incorporating a side corridor which allowed engine
crews to change over during non-stop journeys.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: corridor tenders
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive tender
corrugated rail
A rail that is suffering
from a surface fatigue fault that gives rise to corrugations in the surface of
the rail head.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: corrugated
rails
CL Track and track components
BT damaged rail
counterbalance (vehicular)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: counterbalances (vehicular)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rope worked stock components>
NT counterbalance (water)
counterbalance (water)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: counterbalances (water)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT counterbalance (vehicular)
counterbalanced railway
A railway operating on an
inclined plane with the principle traffic flow downhill so that empty or lightly
loaded wagons can be raised by the greater weight of the heavily loaded
descending wagons, the pull being transmitted via a haulage cable passing round
a braked drum or sheave at the head of the incline.
Warrant: Funicular
Railways, J Woodhams, Shire Publications Ltd, 1989
Plural form:
counterbalanced railways
UF self-acting railway
CL Railway types
BT cable haulage railway
NT water balance railway
coupe (carriage)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coupes (carriages)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
coupe (compartment)
A half-compartment, a
private compartment at one end of the classic Pullman cars.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: coupes (compartments)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT compartment
coupled wheel
Two or more pairs of driving
wheels connected together.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: coupled wheels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive driving wheel
coupled wheel spring
Scope note required.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue
& Co Ltd, 1952 p 281
Plural form: coupled wheel springs
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bearing spring
coupler
A device for connecting
vehicles together.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: couplers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
coupler energy absorption element
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coupler energy absorption
elements
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
coupling
A linkage between successive
vehicles or between locomotive and train.
Warrant: Great Western Railway
Drawing Registers
Plural form: couplings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT drawgear
NT autocoupler
NT automatic coupler
NT buckeye coupling
NT chopper coupling
NT coupler
NT coupler energy absorption element
NT drop head buckeye coupling
NT emergency coupler
NT five link coupling
NT hook (coupling)
NT instanter coupling
NT locomotive-tender coupling
NT safety chain
NT screw coupling
NT semi-permanent coupler
NT semi-permanent coupling
NT side chain
NT slip connection
NT three link coupling
NT Ward coupler
NT wedgelock autocoupler
NT wedgelock emergency coupler
coupling component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coupling components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT drawgear
NT autocoupler contact block
NT autocoupler wedge
coupling hook and bar
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coupling hooks and bars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT drawgear
coupling profile
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coupling profiles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
coupling rod
The conventional linkage
between two or more pairs of driving wheels.
Warrant: Great Western Railway
Drawing Registers
Plural form: coupling rods
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
coupon ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coupon tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by form>
covered carriage ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: covered carriage tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by class>
covered carriage truck
A 4-wheel or bogie passenger
rated van for conveying road vehicles loaded and unloaded through end doors.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: covered carriage
trucks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT carriage truck
covered hopper wagon
An enclosed wagon which is
discharged through doors in the floor and loaded through hatches in the roof,
for the conveyance of grain, chemicals, fine mineral products, etc.
Warrant:
John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: covered hopper wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mineral carrying vehicles>
covered van
A covered van for the
conveyance of luggage or goods.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
covered vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT general merchandise wagon
NT shock absorbing van
NT tranship van
co-acting arm signal
A signal bearing an
additional arm near the driver's eye level mechanically linked to the primary
arm and hence giving the same indication. They are provided in exceptional
situations for sighting reasons.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
co-acting arm signals
UF co-acting signal
CL Control and communications
BT semaphore signal
co-acting signal
An additional
signal that is provided in exceptional situations for sighting reasons, it
displays identical aspects to the primary signal with which it is
associated.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in
the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form:
co-acting signals
USE co-acting arm signal
CL Control and communications
BT semaphore signal
cracker
A colloquial term for
detonator.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: crackers
USE detonator
CL Control and communications
BT <audible signals>
crane locomotive
A combined locomotive and
crane jib which uses steam power to both propel itself and lift and manoeuvre
its load.
Warrant: Crane Locomotives A Survey of British Practice, Rowland A
S Abbott, Goose & Son, 1973
Plural form: crane locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT shunting locomotive
NT crane tank and tender locomotive
NT crane tank locomotive
crane match truck
A wagon used with a
travelling crane to travel beneath the overhanging jib.
Warrant: John
Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: crane match trucks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cranes and ancillary vehicles>
crane registration plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: crane registration plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT registration plate
crane tank and tender locomotive
A locomotive carrying its
water containing tanks and a lifting crane on its main frames plus a separate
water/fuel tender.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: crane tank
and tender locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT crane locomotive
crane tank locomotive
A locomotive carrying its
water tanks and a lifting crane on its main frames.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: crane tank
locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT crane locomotive
RT tank locomotive
crane testing van
A roofed railway vehicle
dedicated to the carriage of materials and equipment required for the testing of
cranes on railway premises.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
crane testing vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT crane testing wagon
crane testing wagon
An open railway vehicle
dedicated to the carriage of materials and equipment required for the testing of
cranes on railway premises.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
crane testing wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <laboratory, workshop and tool vehicles>
NT crane testing van
crane (static)
A crane that is permanently
built-in at a fixed location in a railway depot or yard.
Warrant: The
Victorian Railway, Jack Simmons, Thames & Hudson, 1991 Warrant: Railway
Steam Cranes, John S Brownlie, author, 1973
Plural form: cranes (static)
CL Built works and components
BT <structures by type>
crane (vehicle)
A rail-mounted
crane.
Warrant: Railway Steam Cranes, John S Brownlie, author, 1973
Plural form: cranes
USE travelling crane
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cranes and ancillary vehicles>
<cranes and ancillary vehicles>
Rail mounted cranes and
support vehicles such as match trucks, balance weight trucks, packing vans, etc.
Plural form: <cranes and ancillary vehicles>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <service vehicles and on-track plant>
NT balance weight truck
NT breakdown tender
NT crane match truck
NT packing van
NT travelling crane
crank
A device for converting
rotary to reciprocating motion or vice versa.
Warrant: Encyclopedia of
Railways, O S Nock, 1977
Plural form: cranks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
crank axle
An axle on a locomotive
where cylinders are mounted inside the frames and the drive of the pistons is
transmitted to the wheels by means of cranks built into the axle to accommodate
the motion of the connecting rods.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
crank axles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT axle
crank handle
A handle for operating a
crank.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale
des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: crank handles
CL Unattributed
BT <unattributed>
crank pin
The protrusion on a driving
or coupled wheel on to which a connecting or coupling rod is attached.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: crank pins
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT wheel component
RT driving wheel
crankpin nut
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: crankpin
nuts
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT wheel component
creep control
The computerised control
mechanism on a locomotive that allows the individual axles/wheels to rotate
slightly faster than the train is moving to keep heavy trains on the move.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: creep controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driving and control components>
creosote tank wagon
A tank wagon dedicated to
the conveyance of creosote.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: creosote tank wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for stores and consumables>
crest (armorial device)
A heraldic or
pseudo-heraldic device used as the insignia of the Railway Company. Often used
on locomotives, passenger rolling stock, uniform buttons, stationery and
official publications.
Warrant: Railway Heraldry, G Dow, David &
Charles, 1973
Plural form: crests (armorial devices)
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <corporate identity>
cripple
A defective vehicle.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: cripples
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by condition>
cripple siding
A siding where vehicles
removed from traffic due to a defect are stored awaiting repair.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: cripple sidings
CL Track and track components
BT siding
crippled rail
A rail that has been locally
bent by mishandling, derailment or other impact.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon
Buster, 1999
Plural form: crippled rails
CL Track and track components
BT damaged rail
cross head
The link between the
piston rod and connecting rod which travels on guides (or slide bars)
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: cross
heads
USE crosshead
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
cross head guide
A guideway formed
of one, two, three or four parallel bars parallel with the cylinder bore, used
to keep the piston rod in line.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing
Registers
Plural form: cross head guides
USE slide bar
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
<cross ties>
Rods or bars that connect
rails together at turnouts, etc. Not to be confused with sleepers which support
the rails as well as holding them to gauge.
Plural form: <cross
ties>
CL Track and track components
BT track component
NT gauge tie bar
NT stretcher bar
crossbar
Any carriage or wagon
underframe cross member other than the two end ones, which are designated
'headstocks'. Warrant: Railway Mechanical Engineering, A R Bell et al., Gresham
Publishing Company Ltd, 1923 p99
Plural form: crossbars
USE middle bearer
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT underframe component
crossbeam
A tie-rod linking the bottom
ends of transversly opposed brake hangers on tenders, etc., drawing the hangers
together and preventing spreading when the brakes are applied.
Warrant:
Locomotives, their construction, maintenance and operation, A Morton Bell,
Virtue & Co Ltd, 1946
Plural form: crossbeams
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mechanical brake transmission components>
crosshead
The link between the piston
rod and connecting rod which travels on guides (or slide bars).
Warrant:
Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co
Ltd, 1952
Plural form: crossheads
UF cross head
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
crosshead vacuum pump
A pump driven by the motion
of the crosshead used to maintain the vacuum in the train pipe while the train
is in motion, mainly used on GWR locomotives.
Warrant: Handbook for Railway
Steam Locomotive Enginemen, British Transport Commission, 1957
Plural form:
crosshead vacuum pumps
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake pumps, etc.>
crossing box
A control point for the
supervision of a level crossing which is not controlled directly by a signal
box.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the
British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: crossing
boxes
CL Built works and components
BT <control structures>
crossing chair
A chair designed to support
the crossing legs and wing rails of a crossing.
Warrant: Railway Permanent
Way: Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922
p174
Plural form: crossing neck chairs
CL Track and track components
BT rail chair
NT point chair
crossing check chair
A chair designed to support
both a running rail and a check rail opposite the nose of a crossing.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth
& J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p174
Plural form: crossing check chairs
CL Track and track components
BT check chair
crossing gate lamp
The warning lamp
mounted on the top crossbar of a level crossing gate.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: crossing gate
lamps
USE level crossing gate lamp
CL Control and communications
BT level crossing gate component
crossing gate lamp case
The outer casing of the
warning lamp mounted on the top crossbar of a level crossing gate.
Warrant:
Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form:
crossing gate lamp cases
CL Control and communications
BT level crossing gate lamp component
crossing gate lamp interior
The internal vessel of the
warning lamp mounted on the top crossbar of a level crossing gate.
Warrant:
Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form:
crossing gate lamp interiors
CL Control and communications
BT level crossing gate lamp component
crossing gate mechanism
The mechanism to convert the
action of the crossing gate wheel to the movement of the gates.
Warrant: Ray
Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: crossing
gate mechanisms
CL Control and communications
BT level crossing mechanism
crossing keepers cottage
The dwelling provided
adjacent to a level crossing for occupation by the railway employee responsible
for the operation of the crossing.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of
Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: crossing keepers
cottages
CL Built works and components
BT <control structures>
crossing leg
Full section rail ends
behind the nose in a crossing assembly.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural
form: crossing legs
CL Track and track components
BT crossing vee
NT point leg
NT splice leg
crossing locally monitored
A level
crossing monitored by a signalman or gatekeeper within direct sight rather than
by remote television monitors.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: crossings locally monitored
USE automatic barrier crossing locally monitored
CL Control and communications
BT automatic barrier crossing
crossing neck chair
A chair designed to support
the running rails at the neck of a crossing.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way:
Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p174
Plural form: crossing neck chairs
CL Track and track components
BT rail chair
crossing plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: crossing plates
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
<crossing rails>
Rails that form part of a
crossing sub-assembly.
Plural form: <crossing rails>
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by installation>
NT crossing vee
NT frog
NT monobloc crossing
RT crossing (track sub-assembly)
crossing sign
A road sign indicating the
presence of a railway level crossing to vehicular traffic.
Warrant: Ray
Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: crossing
signs
CL Control and communications
BT <level crossing user warning equipment>
crossing vee
Two pieces of rail, with
parts of the head and foot removed by machining, joined to form the vee shaped
nose of a common crossing.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design,
Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed), The Permanent Way Institution,
5th Edition, 1979 p99
Plural form: crossing vees
CL Track and track components
BT <crossing rails>
NT crossing leg
NT point rail
NT splice rail
NT welded vee
crossing (track sub-assembly)
The place in a turnout or
diamond crossing where two lines of rail first come into contact and the wheels
following one rail cross over another.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An
A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: crossings (track sub-assemblies)
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
NT common crossing
NT obtuse crossing
NT swing nose crossing
RT turnout
RT diamond crossing
RT <crossing rails>
crossover
A connection between two
tracks which allows trains to pass from one to the other.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: crossovers
CL Track and track components
BT trackwork
NT scissors crossover
crossover line
A pair of rails leading from
one line to another to allow movements from the up line to the down line or vice
versa.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: crossover lines
CL Track and track components
BT running line
cross-span wire
Wire stretched across tracks
holding the overhead line equipment in the desired position.
Warrant:
Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: cross-span wires
CL Track and track components
BT overhead line equipment
crown
The roof of the inner
firebox shell.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: crowns
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT firebox component
crown stay
Fixings for securing the
crown to the outer firebox.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers
Connor, 2000
Plural form: crown stays
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT firebox component
crude oil engined locomotive
A locomotive driven by
internal combustion engine which burns heavy (crude) oil.
Warrant: Ruston
Hornsby Co. Ltd catalogues
Plural form: crude oil engined locomotives
UF crude oil locomotive
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT oil engined locomotive
crude oil locomotive
A locomotive
which burns heavy (crude) oil either internal combustion machine or in a
vaporising oil burner fitted to a steam boiler.
Warrant: Ruston Hornsby Co.
Ltd catalogues
Plural form: crude oil locomotives
USE crude oil engined locomotive
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT oil engined locomotive
culvert
A small bridge or pipe
carrying a stream under a railway or road.
Warrant: Railtrack London &
North Eastern, A Glossary of Railway Terms, October 1998
Plural form:
culverts
CL Built works and components
BT earthworks
RT bridge
curb rail
A longitudinal iron or steel
angle forming the side of a wagon floor and the foundation on which the body
sides are built. In vehicles with wooden underframes, the equivalent component
is the side rail.
Warrant: Standard specification for the construction of
private owner's 8, 10 & 12 ton wagons, RCH 1907 Warrant: British Goods
Wagons from 1887 to the Present Day, R J Essery, D P Rowland & W O Steel,
David & Charles, 1970 p29-30
Plural form: curb rails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bottom framing
current rail
An additional rail (or
rails) provided on those electric railways where power is transmitted to trains
from the track.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: current rails
USE conductor rail
CL Track and track components
BT conductor rail
cut out
Methods of arranging to
disconnect one motor in the event of its failure.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural
form: cut outs
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <ancillary electrical equipment>
cutting
Scope note required.
Warrant: Surveying, J Whitelaw, The Technical Press Ltd, undated
Plural
form: cuttings
CL Built works and components
BT earthworks
cut-away
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cut-aways
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
cylinder
The cylindrical chamber on a
steam locomotive containing a piston which is forced backwards and forwards by
the admission of steam alternately on each side.
Warrant: Locomotives and
Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: cylinders
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
cylinder block
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: cylinder
blocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
cylinder cock
A small exhaust port
through which condensed water can be expelled under steam pressure from the
cylinders.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: cylinder cocks
USE cylinder drain cock
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
cylinder drain cock
A small exhaust port through
which condensed water can be expelled under steam pressure from the
cylinders.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: cylinder drain
cocks
UF cylinder cock
UF cylinder tap
UF drain cock
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
cylinder lubricator
A device for ensuring a
continuous supply of oil to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.
Warrant:
Locomotive Management, 10th edition, J T Hodgson& C S Lake, revised by W B
Oaten, Tothill Press, 1954
Plural form: cylinder lubricators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT lubricator
cylinder pressure release valve
An automatic valve to
release water from the cylinders.
Warrant: Locomotive Management, 10th
edition, J T Hodgson & C S Lake, revised by W B Oaten, Tothill Press, 1954
Plural form: cylinder pressure release valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
cylinder tap
A small exhaust port
through which condensed water can be expelled under steam pressure from the
cylinders.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cylinder taps
USE cylinder drain cock
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
<cylinders and associated components>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <cylinders and associated components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <engine components>
NT anti-vacuum valve
NT balanced slide valve
NT cylinder
NT cylinder block
NT cylinder drain cock
NT cylinder pressure release valve
NT exhaust valve
NT gland
NT inside admission piston valve
NT inside cylinder
NT lead (valve)
NT locomotive cylinder
NT piston
NT piston gland stuffing box
NT piston valve
NT piston valve guide (tail rod)
NT poppet valve
NT rear cylinder cover
NT side rod oil chamber
NT slide valve
NT snifting valve
NT steam chest
NT steam chest cover
NT steam chest sleeve
NT stuffing box gland
NT tail rod
NT valve chest sleeve
NT valve cover
NT valve rod
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