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identity plate 
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: identity plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle identity and instruction plates>
NT registration plate
NT <builders identity plates>
NT <owners identity plates>
implement wagon
A wagon used for
transporting agricultural and other machinery, e.g. Lowfit, Lowmac and
Hymac.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form:
implement wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
incline plane
A slope laid with
rails enabling trucks on a tramway or railway to be raised up a steep rise by
wire powered by steam, electricity, water, horse or gravity.
Warrant:
Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: incline planes
USE inclined plane
CL Built works and components
BT earthworks
inclined plane
A slope laid with rails
enabling trucks on a tramway or railway to be raised up a steep rise by wire
powered by steam, electricity, water, horse or gravity.
Warrant: Railway
Terminology Working Group
Plural form: inclined planes
UF incline plane
CL Built works and components
BT <route by inclination, etc.>
RT meeting
<individual multiple unit vehicles>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <individual multiple unit vehicles>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT multiple unit stock
NT multiple unit car
NT <multiple units by control>
NT <multiple units by coupling arrangements>
NT <multiple units by power>
industrial locomotive
A steam locomotive designed
for the movement of vehicles on industrial premises or on industrial tramways or
railways.
Warrant: Hunslet Engine Company Catalogues
Plural form:
industrial locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by operating environment>
NT gasworks locomotive
industrial railway
A private railway or siding
complex serving industrial premises.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport
Trust
Plural form: industrial railways
CL Railway types
BT freight railway
NT factory railway
NT gasworks railway
NT mineral railway
NT water board railway
ingot wagon
A wagon for conveying steel
ingots.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: ingot
wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steel carrying vehicles>
injector
A device using live steam
from the boiler or exhaust steam from the steam chest to force water from the
water tank into the boiler of a steam locomotive.
Warrant: Great Western
Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: injectors
UF steam injector
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water feed components>
NT combination injector
NT combination injector/ejector
NT exhaust steam injector
NT Giffards injector
NT Gresham vertical combination injector
NT live steam injector
NT restarting injector
injector component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: injector components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water feed components>
NT exhaust injector cone
NT injector overflow pipe
NT injector section
NT injector valve
NT injector water valve
injector cone gauge
A gauge for checking the
dimensions of the injector cone.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
injector cone gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT locomotive testing equipment
injector overflow end pipe
A pipe
that allows the injector to dispose of air or water that is surplus to its
correct operating requirements.
Warrant: The Locomotive of Today, Locomotive
Publishing Company, 1927
Plural form: injector overflow end pipes
USE injector overflow pipe
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT injector component
injector overflow pipe
A pipe that allows the
injector to dispose of air or water that is surplus to its correct operating
requirements.
Warrant: The Locomotive of Today, Locomotive Publishing
Company, 1927
Plural form: injector overflow pipes
UF injector overflow end pipe
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT injector component
injector section
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: injector sections
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT injector component
injector valve
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: injector
valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT injector component
injector water valve
A valve regulating the
supply of water to the injector.
Warrant: First Principles of the
Locomotive, M Reynolds, Biggs & co, 1895
Plural form: injector water
valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT injector component
inner home signal
A home signal within station
limits in situations where an outer home signal has been provided. The inner
home is in advance of the outer home and usually to the rear of the
signalbox.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: inner home
signals
CL Control and communications
BT home signal
inoperable signal
A lineside signal which is
permanently set at stop or caution.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: inoperable signals
UF fixed signal (inoperable)
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by control method>
inside admission piston valve
Scope note required.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue
& Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: inside admission piston valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
inside casing board
A board forming part of the
inner lining of a railway carriage 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 Fig 489
Plural form: inside casing boards
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <basic structural components>
RT partition floor bearer
RT partition roof stick
inside cylinder
A cylinder mounted between
the frames of the steam locomotive with pistons driving a crank axle via
connecting rods.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson &
F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: inside cylinders
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
inside cylinder locomotive
A steam locomotive which is
operated by cylinders between the frames with pistons driving on to a crank axle
via connecting rods.
Warrant: The Locomotive of Today, Locomotive Publishing
Company, 1927
Plural form: inside cylinder locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <piston driven steam locomotives>
inspection saloon
A service vehicle used for
inspecting the railway track.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
inspection saloons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT inspection vehicle
inspection train
A train used for inspecting
the railway.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form:
inspection trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT service train
inspection vehicle
A vehicle used by railway
personnel for inspecting the railway.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport
Trust
Plural form: inspection vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <personnel transport and accommodation>
NT inspection saloon
NT OHLM inspection car
NT tunnel inspection vehicle
instanter
A three link coupling
where the middle link has a short side and a long side to enable loose coupled
vehicles to be coupled together more closely.
Warrant: Railway Carriages and
Wagons - Theories and Practices, L Lynes, Locomotive Publishing Co Ltd, 1959
Plural form: instanters
USE instanter coupling
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
instanter coupling
A three link coupling where
the middle link has a short side and a long side to enable loose coupled
vehicles to be coupled together more closely.
Warrant: Great Western Railway
Drawing Registers
Plural form: instanter couplings
UF instanter
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
instruction plate
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: instruction
plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle identity and instruction plates>
instruction train
A departmental train
operated for the instruction of drivers and other staff.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: instruction trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT service train
NT route learning train
instructional sign
A sign giving orders or
directions.
Warrant: Oxford English Dictionary
Plural form:
instructional signs
CL Built works and components
BT <signs and markers>
instrument light
A light contained on the
block shelf to indicate the position of a colour light signal.
Warrant: Ray
Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form:
instrument lights
CL Control and communications
BT <non-specific control equipment>
insulated block joint
A joint of two rail sections
with insulation.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway
Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: insulated block joints
CL Track and track components
BT rail joint
insulated meat van
A goods wagon dedicated to
the conveyance of fresh meat.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: insulated meat vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT meat van
insulated rail joint
A joint of two rail sections
with insulation.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: insulated rail
joints
CL Track and track components
BT rail joint
insulated van
A vehicle with heat
insulation to protect the load from extremes of temperature.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: insulated vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by climate control>
insulator (conductor rail)
The
support for an electrical conductor rail which insulates the current from
earth.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: insulators (conductor
rail)
USE conductor rail insulator
CL Track and track components
BT conductor rail equipment
insulator (overhead line)
The
support for an overhead traction supply wire which insulates the current from
earth.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: insulators (overhead
line)
USE overhead line insulator
CL Track and track components
BT overhead line equipment
integrated electronic control centre
A computerised signalling
control centre.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling
in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form:
integrated electronic control centres
CL Control and communications
BT <central control>
integrated electronic control centre component
A component part of a
computerised signalling control centre.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: integrated electronic control centre components
CL Control and communications
BT <central control>
NT tracker ball (IECC)
intercepting goods shed
A goods shed used
specifically for the transhipment of consignments arriving in 'foreign'
company's wagons into wagons of the intercepting company. This was done in order
to make better use of the wagon stock, reduce mileage charges on foreign
wagons, etc.
Warrant: GWR Goods Services: An introduction, T Atkins & D
Hyde, Wild Swan Publications, 2000 p40
Plural form: intercepting goods
sheds
CL Built works and components
BT goods shed
interlocking frame
A frame in which the levers
working all signals and points in an area are mounted together and interlocked
to avoid conflicting movements.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
interlocking frames
UF interlocking machine
CL Control and communications
BT lever frame
NT 45 degree tappet lever frame
NT catch-handle locking lever frame
NT direct lever locking lever frame
NT duplex locking lever frame
NT horizontal tappet lever frame
NT tumbler frame
NT vertical tappet lever frame
NT vertical tappet signal lever frame
interlocking gear
The equipment for
controlling the setting and releasing of signals and points to prevent unsafe
conditions arising.
Warrant: The History of Railway Signalling, Friends of
the National Railway Museum
Plural form: interlocking gears
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical interlocking equipment>
interlocking machine
A frame in
which the levers working all signals and points in an area are mounted together
and interlocked to avoid conflicting movements.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: interlocking machines
USE interlocking frame
CL Control and communications
BT <central control>
intermediate block home signal
A stop signal controlling
exit from an intermediate block section into the blocked section ahead.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: intermediate block home
signals
CL Control and communications
BT home signal
intermediate block instrument
A mechanism, for actuating
intermediate block signals.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: intermediate block instruments
CL Control and communications
BT block instrument
intermediate block switch
A mechanism, for actuating
intermediate block signals.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: intermediate block switches
CL Control and communications
BT <block system working>
intermediate floor bearer
A transverse member
supporting a vehicle 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:
intermediate floor bearers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bottom framing
intermediate siding tablet instrument
A mechanism for unlocking a
lever frame remotely from a block post.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of
Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: intermediate siding tablet
instruments
CL Control and communications
BT electric token instrument
internal combustion engine
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: internal combustion engines
UF internal combustion power unit
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT engine
<internal combustion exhaust components>
Vehicle components concerned
with removal of exhaust gases, silencing, etc.
Plural form: <internal
combustion exhaust components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <exhaust components>
internal combustion locomotive
A locomotive whose power
source is an internal combustion engine.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: internal combustion locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by power source>
NT < compression ignition engined locomotives>
NT <electric ignition engined locomotives>
NT <other internal combustion locomotives>
internal combustion power unit
Scope
note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: internal
combustion power units
USE internal combustion engine
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT engine
internal roof vent
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: internal roof vents
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof ventilator
internal user wagon
A wagon, usually near the
end of its life and no longer fit for main line service, that is restricted to
internal use within a railway works or yard complex.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: internal user wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by place used>
inter-car barrier
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: inter-car barriers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle safety barriers>
inter-car cable
A single core cable
connection between two cars.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form:
inter-car cables
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <secondary electrical circuitry>
inter-car jumper
A multi - core cable inter -
connection between two cars.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form:
inter-car jumpers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <secondary electrical circuitry>
inter-city railway
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: inter-city railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways by places served>
NT trunk line
invalid saloon
A special coach, fitted with
bed, armchairs, wheelchair, etc, which could be chartered for the carriage of
invalids.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: invalid
saloons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by function>
inverted tank and tender locomotive
A locomotive carrying its
water containing tanks on its main frames plus a separate water/fuel tender.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: inverted tank and tender
locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank and tender locomotive
RT inverted tank locomotive
inverted tank locomotive
A locomotive carrying its
water tanks on its main frames mounted under and to the side of its
smokebox.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: inverted tank
locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank locomotive
iron bar rail
An iron bar used as a rail,
the crudest form of wrought iron rail.
Warrant: Jim Rees, Beamish North of
England Open Air Museum
Plural form: iron bar rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by form>
iron ore wagon
A specialised wagon
dedicated to the conveyance of iron ore.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National
Railway Museum
Plural form: iron ore wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT stone wagon
ironworks railway
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ironworks railways
CL Railway types
BT factory railway
island platform
A platform with two faces
for through lines.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form:
island platforms
CL Built works and components
BT platform
isolating cock
A device used in pneumatic
and hydraulic systems to shut off flow or to drain systems.
Warrant: Railway
Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: isolating cocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
isolating contactor
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: isolating contactors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <ancillary electrical equipment>
isolation equipment
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: isolation equipment
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <ancillary electrical equipment>
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