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kettle
A lineside boiler for
filling early locomotive boilers directly with hot water.
Warrant: Original
drawing in Northumberland Record Office
Plural form: kettles
CL Built works and components
BT <motive power stabling and servicing structures>
key profile
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: key profiles
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
key token
A type of token used for
single line electric token block working.
Warrant: The History &
Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National
Railway Museum
Plural form: key tokens
CL Control and communications
BT block token
key (rail support)
A block of wood
or steel driven in between bullhead rail and chair to make the rail secure in
its chair.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: keys (rail
supports)
USE rail key
CL Track and track components
BT <rail fastenings>
keying hammer
A special large headed
hammer used for knocking rail keys into place between the rail and the rail
chair.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: keying hammers
CL Tools and equipment
BT gangers equipment
king lever
A lever in a signalbox which
cuts out the box and allows its signals and points to be worked remotely from
another box or to fucntion automaticllay via track circuits.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: king levers
CL Control and communications
BT frame lever
kip
A hump at the top of a
rope-hauled railway system to prevent vehicles accidentally running back down
the incline. Also an incline on which wagons are assembled to be run off by
gravity as required, usually at a colliery to feed a loading point.
Warrant:
The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan
Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: kips
CL Track and track components
BT <track areas by function>
kitchen car
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: kitchen cars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by function>
Kitson wheel
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: Kitson wheels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT disc wheel
Klug valve gear
Scope note required.
Warrant: Orenstein and Koppel publicity material
Plural form: Klug valve
gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear
knife switch
A power isolating
switch.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale
des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: knife switches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <ancillary electrical equipment>
knob (handrail)
Scope note
required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form:
knobs (handrail)
USE handrail knob
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <foot and hand holds>
Kylchap blast pipe
A multiple jet blast pipe
for steam locomotives invented by the engineers Kylala and Chapelon.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: Kylchap blast pipes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT blast pipe
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