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J door
The door between the cab and
saloon.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: J doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door
jack
A device for lifting heavy
objects.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: jacks
CL Tools and equipment
BT breakdown equipment
NT bell jack
NT bottle jack
NT hydraulic jack
jack shaft
Any of various kinds of
auxiliary or intermediate shafts which are driven by another shaft or by a set
of gears and form part of the drive train between engine or motor and driving
wheels.
Warrant: Electric Locomotives and Railways, H Greenly, no date p246
Plural form: jack shafts
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
jet powered locomotive
A locomotive driven by a gas
turbine, or jet engine driving a generator.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: jet powered locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by power source>
jim crow
A manual tool used for
bending rails.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: jim
crows
CL Tools and equipment
BT gangers equipment
jimmy
A piece of metal illegally placed
in a blast pipe of a steam locomotive to split the blast thereby increasing the
draught and obtain better steaming.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: jimmies
USE blast pipe jimmy
CL Tools and equipment
BT drivers equipment
jinty
The nickname for a 6 wheel
side tank locomotive designed for shunting and light freight duties designed by
Sir Henry Fowler.
Warrant: The Observer's Book of Railway Locomotives of
Britain, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd
Plural form: jinties
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT six coupled locomotive
Johnson coupling sleeve profile
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: Johnson coupling sleeve profiles
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
joint stock railway
A railway owned by a joint
stock company (i.e. a company of shareholders).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: joint stock railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways by ownership/funding>
NT contractors line
jointed track
Normal track constructed of
rails in lengths of 60ft or less (i.e. not welded).
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: jointed tracks
CL Track and track components
BT <track by jointing>
jointless track circuit
A track circuit which does
not require insulated rail joints at its extremities.
Warrant: The History
& Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the
National Railway Museum
Plural form: jointless track circuits
CL Control and communications
BT track circuit
journal (axle component)
The part of a shaft or axle
which rests on the bearings. In the case of railway vehicles, the part of an
axle inside the axle box.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form:
journals
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <wheel assemblies>
Joys valve gear
A steam locomotive valve
gear which derives its movement from the locomotive connecting rod.
Warrant:
Developments in Locomotive Practice, Bowen Cooke, 1910
Plural form: Joys
valve gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear
jubilee 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: jubilee
track
USE temporary track
CL Track and track components
BT <track by permanence>
jumper
An overhead trolley lead for
moving electric cars inside a depot.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: jumpers
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply components>
jumper head
The coupling socket provided
at the end of a jumper.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor,
2000
Plural form: jumper heads
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply components>
jumper lead
A multi-core cable used to
provide electrical connections between railway vehicles.
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: jumper leads
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <secondary electrical circuitry>
junction
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: junctions
CL Built works and components
BT <junctions and crossings>
NT burrowing junction
NT flat junction
NT flying junction
junction indicator
An indicator
provided at a junction signal to inform the driver which way a junction is set,
by means of a line of white lights.
Warrant: The History & Development
of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway
Museum
Plural form: junction indicators
USE position light junction indicator
CL Control and communications
BT route indicator
junction signal
Any signal that has more
than one running route and is capable of displaying an indication of route.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British
Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: junction
signals
CL Control and communications
BT directing signal
RT splitting distant signal
junction trackwork
An assemblage of turnouts,
diamond crossings, etc. forming a junction between two routes.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: junction trackwork
CL Track and track components
BT trackwork
NT ladder junction
<junctions and crossings>
Points where the railway
converges with or passes over other lines on the same level. Warrant: Railway
Terminology Working Group
Plural form: <junctions and crossings>
CL Built works and components
BT <route complexes>
NT flat crossing
NT junction
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