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Pacific locomotive 
A steam locomotive with a
4-6-2 wheel arrangement.
Warrant: Locomotive Cyclopedia of American
Practice, 13th Edition, 1947
Plural form: Pacific locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT six coupled locomotive
packing van
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of timber blocks and similar materials required during heavy
lifting operations at the scene of an accident, etc.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: packing vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cranes and ancillary vehicles>
paddle
A tool made of wood or other
insulating material that can be inserted between the collector shoe of an
electric train and the live rail to isolate traction current in an
emergency.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: paddles
USE shoe paddle
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
paid area
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: paid areas
CL Built works and components
BT <station rooms and spaces>
paint panel
A sample of corporate
livery, usually a painted panel, often used for paint matching.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: paint panels
USE livery sample
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <corporate identity>
paintshop tools and equipment
Items used in the area of a
railway works designated for the painting of locomotives and rolling stock.
Warrant: Crewe Works in the Age of Steam, E Talbot, Oxford Publishing Company,
1986
Plural form: paintshop tools and equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT workshop equipment
NT coach painting equipment
pallet wagon
A railway vehicle designed
for the carriage of palletised loads.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: pallet wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load support and protection>
Palmer monorail
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: Palmer monorails
CL Railway types
BT monorail
Pandrol clip
The trade name for widely
used flat bottom rail fastening spring steel clip that clamps the rail to the
baseplate fastened to the sleeper.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: Pandrol clips
CL Track and track components
BT rail clip (track fastening)
Pandrol insulator
An insulating pad placed
between the chair and sleeper to insulate the rail from electric current,
manufactured by Pandrol.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form:
Pandrol insulators
CL Track and track components
BT rail clip (track fastening)
RT Not strictly a NT of rail clip. [SAH]
panel batten
A horizontal or vertical
intermediate vehicle body frame member that provides additional support for the
body panels.
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: panel battens
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT side framing
pannier tank and tender locomotive
A locomotive with water
tanks slung high up either side of the boiler in addition to a separate
water/fuel tender.
Warrant: Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, Vol 4
six-wheeled Tender Engines, The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society, 1956
Plural form: pannier tank and tender locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank and tender locomotive
RT pannier tank locomotive
pannier tank locomotive
A steam locomotive with its
water tanks placed high up on both sides of the boiler.
Warrant: Great
Western Steam, W A Tuplin, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1958
Plural form:
pannier tank locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank locomotive
pannier tank (locomotive component)
A locomotive water tank
placed high up on the side of the boiler.
Warrant: Great Western Steam, W A
Tuplin, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1958
Plural form: pannier tanks
(locomotive component)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive water tank
RT pannier tank locomotive
pantograph
A device on the roof of an
electric locomotive or multiple unit through which electric power is drawn from
the overhead wires.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form:
pantographs
UF pantograph collector
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <overhead power collection components>
pantograph collector
An electricity
collector that operates on the pantograph principle on overhead power lines.
Warrant: Electric Locomotives and Railways, H Greenly, no date p261
Plural
form: pantograph collectors
USE pantograph
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <overhead power collection components>
pantograph horn
Part of the pantograph which
curves down at each end of the collector head and which fractures if struck at
speed giving a detection signal to lower the pantograph.
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: pantograph horns
UF horn (pantograph)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <overhead power collection components>
paper mill railway
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: paper mill railways
CL Railway types
BT factory railway
paper ticket
A paper form with blank
spaces for entering fare, destination, etc; usually made out by a booking clerk
for destinations on another company's system.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: paper tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by form>
paraffin engined locomotive
A locomotive whose power
source is derived by burning paraffin externally or internally.
Warrant:
Modern Railway Traction, Railway Manufacturers Association, undated
Plural
form: paraffin engined locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <electric ignition engined locomotives>
<parcel and freight traffic accounting>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <accounting records and equipment>
NT advice note
NT consignment bill
NT consignment note
NT goods invoice
NT goods waybill
NT left luggage receipt
NT luggage label
NT luggage label booklet
NT luggage waybill
NT parcel stamp
NT parcels label
NT parcels waybill
NT wagon label
NT waybill
NT waybill holder
parcel stamp
A self-adhesive label fixed
to parcels being transported by rail to indicate payment of the appropriate
charge.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale
des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: parcel stamps
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
<parcels and mail handling structures>
Buildings and other
structures connected with the operation of railway parcels and postal services.
Plural form: <parcels and mail handling structures>
CL Built works and components
BT <transhipment structures>
NT mail exchange apparatus (lineside)
parcels label
A label attached to a parcel
in transit to indicate destination, consignee etc.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: parcels labels
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
parcels train
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parcels trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger rated traffic train
parcels trolley
A small hand cart intended
to transport parcels to and from the trains.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parcels trolleys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station trolleys and barrows>
parcels van
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of parcels and similar traffic.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parcels vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mail, parcels, etc. carrying vehicles>
parcels waybill
A label attached to a parcel
in transit to indicate destination, consignee etc.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: parcels waybills
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
parking brake
The means by which an
unattended or upowered vehicle can be secured against unplanned movement.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form:
parking brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
NT spring applied parking brake
parking brake isolating cock
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parking brake isolating cocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake pipes, reservoirs, etc.>
parking ticket
A ticket issued for the
parking of a road vehicle at the issuing station whilst the owner undertakes a
train journey.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parking
tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT non-travel ticket
parliamentary carriage
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parliamentary carriages
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by class>
parliamentary ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parliamentary tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by class>
parliamentary train
A train calling at all
stations and providing covered accommodation for passengers at a fare not
exceeding than one old penny per mile and at a speed of no less than 12 mph,
under Gladstone's 1844 Regulation of Railways Act.
Warrant: The Victorian
Railway, J Simmons, Thames & Hudson, 1990
Plural form: parliamentary
trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger train
partially fitted train
A train in which only some
wagons are fitted with continuous brakes.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An
A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: partially fitted trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by braking>
parting
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: partings
USE turnout
CL Track and track components
BT turnout
partition board
A board forming part of the
partition separating individual compartments in a railway carriage.
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: partition boards
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT partition component
partition component
A component forming part of
the partition separating individual compartments in a railway carriage.
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: partition components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <basic structural components>
NT partition board
RT partition floor bearer
RT partition roof stick
partition floor bearer
A transverse member
supporting a vehicle floor and compartment partition.
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: partition floor bearers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bottom framing
RT partition component
partition roof stick
A curved horizontal rail
serving both as a transverse roof support and as a support for the top of the
partition between compartments.
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: partition
roof sticks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof stick
pass
A railway ticket or other
device permitting the holder to travel (usually without charge or at a
concessionary fare).
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: passes
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <permits>
NT directors pass
NT free pass
<passenger and staff facility
components>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <passenger and staff facility components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bodywork component
NT matchstriker
NT <luggage storage components>
NT <vehicle safety barriers>
NT <vehicle seating>
passenger brake van
A brake van designed for use
on passenger trains.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger
brake vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT brake van
passenger brake van (with passenger
accommodation)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger brake vans (with passenger
accommodation)
UF brake coach
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
passenger carriage
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger carriages
UF car (railway vehicle)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load or function>
NT <passenger carriages by class>
NT <passenger carriages by function>
NT <passenger carriages by haulage>
NT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
NT <passenger carriages by wheel arrangement>
<passenger carriages by class>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <passenger carriages by class>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger carriage
NT composite carriage
NT first class carriage
NT nondescript (carriage)
NT parliamentary carriage
NT second class carriage
NT third class carriage
NT unclassified carriage
<passenger carriages by function>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <passenger carriages by functions>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger carriage
NT ambulance car
NT buffet car
NT club car
NT dining car
NT invalid saloon
NT kitchen car
NT observation car
NT private saloon
NT royal carriage
NT sleeping car
NT sleeping saloon
NT tavern car
NT VIP saloon (Inter-city)
<passenger carriages by haulage>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <passenger carriages by haulage>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger carriage
NT dandy car
<passenger carriages by internal
layout/facilities>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger carriage
NT compartment carriage
NT corridor carriage
NT coupe (carriage)
NT double deck carriage
NT driving car
NT gangwayed carriage
NT lavatory equipped carriage
NT luggage van (with passenger accommodation)
NT open carriage
NT passenger brake van (with passenger accommodation)
NT saloon carriage
NT semi-gangwayed carriage
<passenger carriages by wheel arrangement>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <passenger carriages by wheel arrangements>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger carriage
NT articulated carriage
NT bogie carriage
NT eight wheel carriage (non bogie)
NT four wheel carriage
NT six wheel carriage
passenger close
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger closes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
passenger communication brake valve
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger communication brake
valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake controls>
RT <train staff/passenger communication>
passenger communication cord
An early means of passenger
alarm communication with driver and guard.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger communication cords
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger emergency communication
passenger communication valve (air)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger communication valves
(air)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake controls>
passenger communications valve (vacuum)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger communications valves
(Vacuum)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake controls>
RT <on-train communications equipment>
passenger emergency alarm
A system provided for the
passengers to communicate to the Train Operator that an emergency situation is
present on the train.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: passenger
emergency alarms
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger emergency communication
passenger emergency communication
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger emergency
communications
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <on-train communications equipment>
NT mayday alarm control
NT mayday alarm indicator
NT passenger communication cord
NT passenger emergency alarm
RT automatic brake
passenger line
A line signalled to the
standard required for trains conveying passengers.
Warrant: The History &
Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National
Railway Museum
Plural form: passenger lines
CL Track and track components
BT <running lines by type of train>
passenger locomotive
A locomotive designed for
the haulage of passenger trains. Usually fitted with continuous brakes.
Warrant: Modern Locomotive Design Bowen Cooke 1910
Plural form: passenger
locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by intended load>
passenger open
A system that allows a
passenger to open the door(s) in a doorway by operation of a local push -
button.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: passenger opens
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
passenger open transmission
A means of carrying
electrical signals from the carbody to the door leaf mounted 'passenger open'
push button switch.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: passenger
open transmission
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <secondary electrical circuitry>
passenger railway
A railway that conveys
passengers, for whatever purpose.
Warrant: Planning Passenger Railways, N G
Harris & E W Godward, Transport Publishing Company Ltd., 1992
Plural
form: passenger railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways by principal traffic>
NT leisure railway
passenger rated traffic train
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger rated traffic trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT non-passenger train
NT bullion train
NT exhibition train
NT livestock train
NT mail train (not conveying passengers)
NT parcels train
NT perishable traffic train
passenger talkback control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger talkback controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <train staff/passenger communication>
passenger talkback indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger talkback indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <train staff/passenger communication>
passenger timetable
A document
showing the times of scheduled passenger train departures and arrivals at
stations.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger
timetables
USE public timetable
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
RT working timetable
<passenger traffic accounting>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <passenger traffic accounting>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <accounting records and equipment>
NT coach waybill
NT <permits>
NT <reservation markers>
NT <ticket inspection equipment>
NT <ticket printing equipment>
NT <ticket selling equipment>
passenger train
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by load/function>
NT ambulance train
NT boat train
NT excursion train
NT mail train (conveying passengers)
NT mixed train
NT parliamentary train
NT Q train
NT royal train
NT staff train
NT troop train
NT workmans train
passimeter
A free-standing kiosk in the
ticket hall of a station, designed to combine facilities for issuing tickets on
entry and checking them on exit and equipped with turnstiles operated by the
booking clerk.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form:
passimeters
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
patrolmans lockout device
A device that puts the
signals to danger to protect personnel working in an area from which there is no
accessible safe refuge.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
patrolmans lockout devices
CL Control and communications
BT <occupation protection equipment>
patrolmans vehicle
A railway vehicle used by
lengthmen to patrol their length.
Warrant: On-track plant on British
Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981
Plural
form: patrolmans vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <personnel transport>
pay advice
A document confirming the
amount of wage or salary and the value of deductions made.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: pay advices
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll documentation>
pay check
An engraved or embossed
metal token used to establish identity when collecting a pay packet.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pay checks
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll hardware>
pay check board
A display board for storage
of pay checks.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pay check
boards
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll hardware>
pay envelope
An envelope, often
perforated, that is used to make cash payments to employees.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: pay envelopes
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll hardware>
pay records rack
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pay records racks
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll hardware>
pay through and recharge form
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pay through and recharge forms
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <unattributed>
pay ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pay tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll documentation>
pay tin
A storage device (usually
metal) into which an employee's wages would be dispensed to await collection.
Often bears the employee's name or number or occupation.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: pay tins
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll hardware>
paybill deductions form
An
authority, signed by the employee, for their employer to make certain deductions
from their pay.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: paybill
deductions forms
USE deduction mandate
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll documentation>
payroll advice
A document confirming the
amount of wage or salary and the value of deductions made.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: payroll advices
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll documentation>
<payroll documentation>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <payroll documentation>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll records and equipment>
NT clock card
NT deduction mandate
NT leaving notice
NT pay advice
NT pay ticket
NT payroll advice
NT time card
NT time sheet
<payroll hardware>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <payroll hardware>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll records and equipment>
NT pay check
NT pay check board
NT pay envelope
NT pay records rack
NT pay tin
NT wages bag
NT <employee timekeeping hardware>
<payroll records and equipment>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <payroll records and equipment>
CL Commercial records and equipment
NT <payroll documentation>
NT <payroll hardware>
NT <personnel records>
PCT
A lightweight on-track machine which
gives full protection to welds being formed using the thermit welding process
and provides in one unit all the facilities, equipment and materials needed for
the rapid production of welds. Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways,
Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p13
Plural
form: PCTs
USE powered canopy trolley
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
peat railway
Scope note required.
Warrant: Locomotives & Railcars of Bord na Mona, S Johnson, Midland
Publishing Ltd, 1996
Plural form: peat railways
CL Railway types
BT mineral railway
pedestrian crossing
A level crossing used solely
by pedestrians (e.g. where a public footpath crosses the line and no footbridge
or underpass is provided).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
pedestrian crossings
CL Control and communications
BT <level crossings by type>
pedigree cattle wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of pedigree cattle.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: pedigree cattle wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT cattle wagon
perishable traffic train
A train conveying foodstuffs
such as fish and vegetables requiring high speed delivery to prevent the load
spoiling.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form:
perishable traffic trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger rated traffic train
NT fish train
NT milk train
permanent speed restriction sign
A sign showing the normal
speed restriction for the operation of trains over a section of line.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British
Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: permanent speed
restriction signs
CL Control and communications
BT <trackside indicators>
NT warning indicator
permanent steam tender
Scope note required.
Warrant: Articulated Locomotives, L Wiener, 1930
Plural form: permanent
steam tenders
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT steam tender
NT Baldeyrou and Verpilleux system
NT Lartigue monorail steam tender
NT Poultney system locomotive
NT Sturrock steam tender locomotive
NT Urbans steam tender
NT Verpilleux system steam tender
RT articulated locomotive
permanent way
The track structure which
includes rails, sleepers and ballast.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: permanent way
CL Track and track components
BT <track by permanence>
permanent way callipers
A pair of hinged arms for
measuring small distances (e.g. rail web thickness).
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: permanent way callipers
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
permanent way component
Any part or
component of the trackbed or railway track.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: permanent way components
USE track component
CL Track and track components
permanent way gauge
A tool for measuring the
profile of a rail, rail key, fishplate or other permanent way component.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: permanent way gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
NT rail gauge
NT spike hole gauge
NT standard length gauge
permanent way hammer
A special large headed
hammer used for knocking rail keys into place between the rail and the rail
chair.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: permanent way
hammers
CL Tools and equipment
BT gangers equipment
permanent way hut
A cabin or hut situated
alongside the railway line for the use of railway permanent way staff.
Warrant: Gibbon, Richard H. BSc, FIMechE, CIEng, Head of Engineering
Collections, National Railway Museum, York
Plural form: permanent way
huts
UF gangers hut
CL Built works and components
BT <route maintenance structures>
<permanent way manufacturing tools and
equipment>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <permanent way manufacturing tools and equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <permanent way tools and equipment>
NT rail chair pattern
<permanent way tools and equipment>
All the tools and equipment
used by railway employees working on the construction, operation and maintenance
of the permanent way. Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form:
<permanent way tools and equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway manufacturing and maintenance equipment>
NT civil engineering equipment
NT gangers equipment
NT surveying equipment
NT track laying equipment
NT track testing equipment
NT <permanent way manufacturing tools and equipment>
NT <track cleaning, greasing and adhesion equipment>
NT <track workers safety equipment>
permanent way works
A factory for the production
of railway permanent way materials and fabricated products.
Warrant: Railway
Terminology Working Group
Plural form: permanent way works
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair complexes>
permanent-wire control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: permanent-wire controls
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
<permits>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <permits>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <passenger traffic accounting>
NT book of ticket stubs
NT book of tickets
NT fare token
NT pass
NT property permit
NT ticket
NT token (passengers pass)
NT travel permit
NT travel warrant
NT <ticket accessories>
<personnel accommodation>
Railway vehicles used as
mobile mess and dormitory accommodation for railway employees.
Plural form:
<personnel accommodation>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <personnel transport and accommodation>
NT dormitory coach
NT mess van
NT staff and dormitory Portakabin vehicle
NT staff changing coach
NT staff coach
personnel carrier
A railway vehicle used to
transport track maintenance employees to the work site.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: personnel carriers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <personnel transport>
<personnel records>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <personnel records>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll records and equipment>
NT staff appointment form
<personnel transport and accommodation>
Railway vehicles providing
mobile mess and/or dormitory accommodation.
Plural form: <personnel
transport and accommodation>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <service vehicles and on-track plant>
NT directors saloon
NT engineers saloon
NT inspection vehicle
NT officers saloon
NT <personnel accommodation>
NT <personnel transport>
<personnel transport>
Railway vehicles used as to
transport track maintenance employees to the work site, etc.
Plural form:
<personnel transport>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <personnel transport and accommodation>
NT engineers trolley
NT patrolmans vehicle
NT personnel carrier
NT quadricycle
NT tricycle (railway)
petrol locomotive
An internal combustion
driven locomotive powered by burning petrol.
Warrant: The Oxford Companion to
British Railway History, Jack Simmons & Gordon Biddle (eds.), Oxford
University Press, 1997 p527
Plural form: petrol locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <electric ignition engined locomotives>
pick up coil
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pick up coils
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
pickaxe
Heavy iron tool with a point
at one end and a wooden handle at right angles to it for breaking up heavy
ground etc.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: pickaxes
CL Tools and equipment
BT gangers equipment
pick-up goods train
A freight train that stops
at all or most of the goods yards and sidings along its route to pick up or set
down wagons.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pick-up goods
trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by frequency of stops>
pick-up shoe
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pick-up shoes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
piece van wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of horse drawn vans.
Warrant: Lancashire & Yorkshire
Wagons Volume One, Noel Coates, Wild Swan Publications, 1990 p116
Plural
form: piece van wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT furniture van truck
pier railway
A leisure railway for
conveying passengers to the end of a seaside pier. For railways conveying
passengers or goods along a mooring pier for the purposes of embarking on
vessels moored alongside, see harbour or dock railways.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: pier railways
CL Railway types
BT seaside railway
RT miniature railway
RT harbour railway
RT dock railway
pig iron wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of pig iron.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pig
iron wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steel carrying vehicles>
pigeon van
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of racing pigeons.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: pigeon vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <livestock carrying vehicles>
pigtail
The lead on a dc electric
locomotive or motor coach which connects the collector shoe to the power
cable.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan
A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: pigtails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
pilotmans armband
A band worn on the arm of a
pilotman to signify his rank and duties.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pilotmans armbands
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
pinch bar
A stout metal bar used for
moving wagons, locomotives, etc. by leverage between rail and wheel rim.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pinch bars
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
pipe wagon
A special wagon for carrying
pipes, with fixed ends and the sides consisting of two drop doors with a
removable stanchion between.
Warrant: An Illustrated History of BR Wagons,
Volume 1, Paul Bartlett, David Larkin, Trevor Mann, Roger Silsbury & Andrew
Ward, Oxford Publishing Company, 1985
Plural form: pipe wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steel carrying vehicles>
piped vehicle
A vehicle without automatic
brake apparatus but with a through pipe or pipes to enable the automatic brake
on adjacent vehicles to be operative.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
piped vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braked vehicle
piston
The disc-shaped or
cylindrical assembly that, from or against pressure, moves back and forth inside
the cylinders of a steam locomotive.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing
Registers
Plural form: pistons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
<piston driven steam locomotives>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <piston driven steam locomotives>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by energy conversion>
NT compound locomotive
NT horizontally opposed cylinder locomotive
NT inside cylinder locomotive
NT outside cylinder locomotive
NT uniflow locomotive
piston gland stuffing box
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: piston gland stuffing boxes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
piston rod
The rod connecting the
piston to the crosshead at the rear of the cylinder.
Warrant: Locomotives and
Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: piston rods
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
piston valve
An inside or outside
admission steam distribution valve with two piston heads spaced on a spindle and
fitted with rings to maintain steam tightness.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their
Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural
form: piston valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
piston valve guide (tail rod)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: piston (tail rod) valve guides
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
pitch
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pitches
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
pitch wagon
An open general merchandise
wagon developed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1884, which gained
the codename 'pitch'. It featured one opening (or tip) end rather than having
both fixed. Unlike most end discharge vehicles, it was not primarily intended
for mineral traffic.
Warrant: Lancashire & Yorkshire Wagons Volume One,
Noel Coates, Wild Swan Publications, 1990 p143
Plural form: pitch wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT end door vehicle
pivot block assembly and bush
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pivot block assemblies and
bushes
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
pivot light
A light that is common to
both on and off aspects of a position light signal.
Warrant: The History
& Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the
National Railway Museum
Plural form: pivot lights
CL Control and communications
BT signal lamp
pivot pin (truck)
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: pivot pins
(truck)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <bogie and truck components>
pivoting single bolster wagon
A short wagon fitted with a
rotating load bearing bolster, intended to work with one or more similar wagons
to carry long loads.
Warrant: Wagons on the LNER - North British, John
Hooper, Irwell Press, 1991 p25
Plural form: pivoting single bolster
wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT single bolster wagon
planking
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: plankings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <body side components>
plate frame
A locomotive frame cut from
a solid iron or steel plate.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H
Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: plate
frames
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive frame
plate rail
Rails consisting of flanged
plates of L-section iron used to form a tramroad.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: plate rails
CL Track and track components
BT <wheel supports and guides>
NT edge plate hybrid rail
NT gulley rail
NT gully rail
NT tram plate rail
plate wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of iron and steel plates.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: plate wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steel carrying vehicles>
NT armour plate wagon
NT trestle plate wagon
platelayers trolley
A lightweight railway
vehicle for the use of track maintenance staff. May be pushed by hand, manually
propelled through a lever and crank system or self-propelled by an internal
conmbustion engine.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platelayers
trolleys
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for permanent way materials>
NT engineers trailer
NT self-propelled platelayers trolley
plateway
A form of tramroad in which
the sideways movement of vehicles wa not restrained by wheel flanges but by
vertical falnges oof the plate rails.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: plateways
CL Railway types
BT <railways by form>
NT dramroad
NT tramroad
plateway track
Track laid with plate
rails.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: plateway tracks
CL Track and track components
BT <track by rail type>
platform
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platforms
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
NT bay platform
NT cattle dock
NT end loading dock
NT end loading ramp
NT island platform
NT terminal platform
platform barrier
Barrier at the entrance to a
platform where tickets are checked.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
platform barriers
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
platform barrier gate
An opening in the barrier to
the platform where tickets are checked.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working
Group
Plural form: platform barrier gates
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
platform barrow
A wheeled hand cart for
transporting luggage, goods and equipment along station platforms.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: platform barrows
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station trolleys and barrows>
platform bench
A seat provided on the
platform for the use of travellers.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: platform benches
CL Built works and components
BT station bench
platform close switch
An externally mounted push
button used to close the saloon sliding doors on an individual car side
basis.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: platform close
switches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
platform destination board
A sign on the station
platform identifying destinations of the trains departing from that
platform.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platform destination
boards
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
platform door interlock cut-out
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platform door interlock cut-outs
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
platform doors closed indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platform doors closed indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
platform edging
The
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: platform edgings
CL Built works and components
BT <station structure components>
platform finger board
A directional sign shaped
like a pointing finger, found on stations and station platforms.
Warrant:
Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: platform finger boards
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
platform hanging lamp
A lamp hung from the station
roof or canopy for the purpose of illuminating the platform area. Whilst this
term can be used for naming purposes, for indexing it would be better to factor
the term as platform lamp + hanging lamp.
Warrant: Railway Terminology
Working Group
Plural form: platform hanging lamps
UF station platform hanging lamp
CL Built works and components
BT platform lamp
platform indicator
An electrical indicator
denoting the occupation of a platform line in a station.
Warrant: Ray
Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: platform
indicators
CL Control and communications
BT section indicator
platform information board
A notice board on the
platform on which information for passengers is provided.
Warrant: Railway
Terminology Working Group
Plural form: platform information boards
CL Built works and components
BT departure indicator
platform lamp
A lamp provided for the
illumination of the platform area.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working
Group
Plural form: platform lamps
UF station platform lamp
CL Built works and components
BT <fixed lighting by usage>
NT platform hanging lamp
NT station platform wall lamp
platform monitor
A visual display screen
situated on the platform showing the departure times of trains.
Warrant:
Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: platform monitors
CL Built works and components
BT <surveillance equipment>
platform notice
A sign or notice used to
provide information or warnings on railway platforms.
Warrant: Railway
Terminology Working Group
Plural form: platform notices
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
platform railing
Barrier at the entrance to a
platform where tickets are checked.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working
Group
Plural form: platform railings
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
<platform roads>
Lines running adjacent to
platforms.
Plural form: <platform roads>
CL Track and track components
BT line (track)
NT bay line
platform screen door
Doors placed along a
platfrom edge to separate passengers from the exposed railway, usually only used
in underground passenger railways.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages,
Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: platform screen doors
CL Built works and components
BT <station structure components>
platform shelter
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platform shelters
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
RT shelter
platform sign
Any information sign or
warning notice situated on a station platform.
Warrant: Railway Terminology
Working Group
Plural form: platform signs
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
platform starting signal
A stop signal at or near the
departure end of a station platform.
Warrant: The History & Development
of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway
Museum
Plural form: platform starting signals
CL Control and communications
BT starting signal
platform station sign
A sign on a station platform
denoting the name of the station.
Warrant: Railway Relics and Regalia, Ed P
Whitehouse, Country Life, 1975
Plural form: platform station signs
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
platform ticket
A ticket allowing the holder
to pass through a ticket barrier onto the platform, but not to travel.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: platform tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT non-travel ticket
platform ticket machine
A free-standing, or
wall-mounted, coin operated machine for the unattended sale of platform
tickets.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platform ticket
machines
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine
platform tractor
A car, often battery driven,
designed to tow parcels trolleys along platform.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platform tractors
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station tools and equipment>
platform view mirror
A mirror provided on a
station platform to enable the drive to see the guard where the view is noramlly
obscured.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form:
platform view mirrors
CL Built works and components
BT <surveillance equipment>
platform wall lamp
A wall mounted
lamp for the purpose of illuminating the platform area. Whilst this term can be
used for naming purposes, for indexing it would be better to factor the term as
platform lamp + wall lamp.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: platform wall lamps
USE station platform wall lamp
CL Built works and components
BT platform lamp
pleasure party ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pleasure party tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type or age of traveller>
plough brake
A goods brake van
provided with plough ends for use in a Permanent Way Department train, to spread
newly discharged ballast on the track.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: plough brakes
USE ballast plough brake van
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
plunger
A button that is depressed
to activate signalling equipment.
Warrant: The History & Development of
Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: plungers
CL Control and communications
BT <non-specific control equipment>
NT bell plunger
RT firemans call plunger
RT right away plunger
RT bell plunger
RT train ready to start plunger
RT ready to start plunger
pneumatic ballast injection machine
An on-track machine used for
pneumatically injecting a measured quantity of ballast under the sleepers and
compacting the trackbed.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways, Roger
Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p30
Plural form:
pneumatic ballast injection machines
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
pneumatic buffer stop
A buffer stop using air
cushioning to decrease the effect of impact, usually used at main line
termini.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: pneumatic buffer
stops
CL Track and track components
BT buffer stop
pneumatic door operator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pneumatic door operators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
pneumatic relay assembly
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pneumatic relay assemblies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <pneumatic valves, gauges, etc.>
<pneumatic system infrastructure>
General purpose air pumps,
reservoirs and main line pipes that serve a range of on-train pneumatic systems,
not just brakes. For pumps and pipes exclusively for brake operation, see
'braking system component'.
Plural form: <pneumatic system
infrastructure>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT running gear
NT < air pipes, reservoirs, etc.>
NT <air pumps, etc.>
NT <pneumatic valves, gauges, etc.>
<pneumatic transmission>
Equipment that transmits
control from the control point to the equipment to be actuated via air pressure.
Includes pneumatic equipment used in electro-pneumatic signalling systems.
Plural form: <pneumatic transmission>
CL Control and communications
BT <control transmission>
NT donkey compressor (signalling)
<pneumatic valves, gauges, etc.>
Valves, gauges, etc.
connected to general purpose air lines, etc. that serve a range of on-train
pneumatic systems, not just brakes. For valves and gauges exclusively for brake
operation, see 'braking system component','<brake pipes, reservoirs,
etc>' and '<brake controls>'.
Plural form: <pneumatic valves,
gauges, etc.>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <pneumatic system infrastructure>
NT main line pressure switch isolating
NT main line pressure switch test
NT pneumatic relay assembly
pneumatic wiper
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pneumatic wipers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT cab component
pocket watch
A timepiece carried in the
pocket of railway staff to ensure that they perform their duties in accordance
with the railway timetable.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
pocket watches
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general tools and equipment>
<point and signal actuation>
The means by which points
and signals are operated.
Plural form: <point and signal
actuation>
CL Control and communications
BT <signalling>
NT < central control>
NT <control transmission>
NT <local control>
NT <mechanical protection>
point chair
A chair designed to support
the nose 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: point chairs
CL Track and track components
BT crossing chair
point clamp
A mechanical device for
ensuring the correct interface of the point blade and stock rail.
Warrant:
Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form:
point clamps
CL Control and communications
BT <point locking equipment>
<point detection, etc.>
Equipment remote from the
control centre that detects the actual setting of points to protect trains from
accident if the points are not fully over or due to equipment failure are not
set as indicated by the lever position in the control centre.
Plural form:
<point detection, etc.>
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical protection>
NT point detector
NT supplementary detector
point detector
A device for proving that
points are correctly set, allowing a clear signal to be given for a train to
pass over them.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: point
detectors
CL Control and communications
BT <point detection, etc.>
point end
One pair of switch rails in
a set of points.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway
Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: point ends
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
RT switch (track sub-assembly)
point handle
A handle for operating a
failed point motor in an emergency.
Warrant: The History & Development
of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway
Museum
Plural form: point handles
CL Control and communications
BT point lever (trackside)
point heater
An electric or gas heater to
melt snow and ice that might otherwise impede correct operation of points.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: point heaters
CL Track and track components
BT <track maintenance assemblies>
point leg
Full section point rail ends
behind the nose in a crossing assembly.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way:
Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p174
Plural form: point legs
CL Track and track components
BT crossing leg
point lever (frame)
A lever in a signalbox or
ground frame that operates points.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: point levers (frame)
CL Control and communications
BT frame lever
RT point lever (trackside)
point lever (trackside)
A lever used for operating
points from a point immediately adjacent (as distinct from a central lever
frame).
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale
des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: point levers (trackside)
CL Control and communications
BT <local control>
NT point handle
NT Summerson lever
NT throwover
RT point lever (frame)
<point locking equipment>
Equipment that locks points
in position to prevent them being moved whilst a train is passing.
Plural
form: <point locking equipment>
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical protection>
NT clamp lock
NT clamp (point)
NT clamplock heater
NT facing point lock
NT point clamp
NT points clip
NT rail points clamp
point machine
An apparatus which
changes the position of the points by use of compressed air or electric power.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: point machines
USE point motor
CL Control and communications
BT <electrical transmission>
point motor
An apparatus which changes
the position of the points by use of compressed air or electric power.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: point motors
UF point machine
CL Control and communications
BT <electrical transmission>
point rail
Rail which forms a vee with
the splice rail in a common crossing, or the machined rail forming a nose in an
obtuse crossing.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster Warrant: British Railway Track:
Design, Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed), The Permanent Way
Institution, 5th Edition, 1979 pp99, 100 & 106
Plural form: point
rails
CL Track and track components
BT crossing vee
point rod bell crank
A pivoting component with
two arms set at rightangles used to change the direction of movement of point
rodding through ninety degrees.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
point rod bell cranks
UF bell crank
CL Control and communications
BT <rod transmission>
point rod reversing linkage
A baseplate carrying two
adjacent bell cranks joined by a short link, used to reverse the direction of
movement of a point rod and to compensate for thermal expansion the rodding.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: point rod reversing linkages
CL Control and communications
BT <rod transmission>
point rodding
The rodding, either round or
of channel section, which mechanically connects the operating lever to the
points.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: point rodding
CL Control and communications
BT <rod transmission>
point (track sub-assembly)
The items
of permanent way which may be aligned to one of two positions according to the
direction of train movement required.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: points (track sub-assembly)
USE switch (track sub-assembly)
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
pointer
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pointers
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
points blade straightener
A special device for
straightening the switch blade when it has been damaged.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: points blade straighteners
CL Tools and equipment
BT track laying equipment
points clip
A device used to clamp a
switch rail to its stock rail so that it cannot be moved, usually similar to a G
clamp.
Warrant: Alan Blower, Permanent Way Institution
Plural form:
points clips
UF clip (points)
CL Control and communications
BT <point locking equipment>
points indicator
An indicator that informs
the driver that the associated points (usually facing) are correctly set.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British
Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: points
indicators
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by function>
points mechanism
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: points mechanisms
CL Control and communications
BT <non-specific control equipment>
points rodding support
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: points rodding supports
CL Control and communications
BT <rod transmission>
pole strap
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pole straps
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
pole wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of poles and similar long loads.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pole wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <timber/steel carrying vehicles>
pony
A single axle truck placed before
or behind the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.
Warrant: Great Western
Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: ponies
USE pony truck
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT truck
pony truck
A single axle truck placed
before or behind the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: pony trucks
UF pony
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT truck
pop safety valve
A safety valve which
releases a large volume of steam from the moment it lifts, opening suddenly with
a pop and closing equally suddenly.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: pop safety valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT safety valve
poppet valve
An independent inlet and
exhaust valve operated by camshaft giving improved steam distribution and
improved back pressure compared with reciprocating valve gears.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: poppet valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
<portable lamps and components>
Portable devices for giving
light and component parts thereof. Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural
form: <portable lamps and components>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general operating tools and equipment>
NT handlamp
NT handlamp component
RT <fixed lighting>
portal
The entrance to a
tunnel.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: portals
CL Built works and components
BT tunnel component
position light ground signal
Slang for a position light
signal mounted at ground level.
Warrant: The History & Development of
Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: position light ground signals
CL Control and communications
BT position light signal
position light junction indicator
An indicator which displays
the route at a signal 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: position light junction
indicators
UF feather
UF junction indicator
CL Control and communications
BT route indicator
position light signal
A signal controlling
movements other than normal through running, fixed on the same post as a running
signal, or a separate ground signal.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: position light signals
UF cats eye
CL Control and communications
BT <colour light signals by construction>
NT ground position light signal
NT position light ground signal
position switch
A multi pole switch used to
enable or disable all door control functions and some auxiliary circuits.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: position switches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
positive conductor rail
An additional rail beside
the two running rails used to carry DC power to electrified trains.
Warrant:
The Oxford Companion to British Railway History, Jack Simmons & Gordon
Biddle (eds.), Oxford University Press, 1997 p143
Plural form: positive
conductor rails
UF live rail
UF third rail
CL Track and track components
BT conductor rail
positive shoebeam
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: positive shoebeams
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
poster
Scope note required.
Warrant: The Golden Age of the Railway Poster, J T Shackleton, New English
Library, 1976
Plural form: posters
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
potato railway
Scope note required.
Warrant: The Lincolnshire Potato Railways, S E Squires, The Oakwood Press, 1987
Plural form: potato railways
CL Railway types
BT agricultural railway
Poultney system locomotive
Scope note required.
Warrant: Articulated Locomotives, L Wiener, 1930
Plural form: Poultney
systems
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT permanent steam tender
<powder carrying vehicles>
Railway vehicles dedicated
to the carriage of powders in bulk.
Plural form: <powder carrying
vehicles>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load or function>
NT Presflo wagon
NT prestwin silo wagon
powder wagon
A freight vehicle designed
for the carriage of powdered materials in bulk.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: powder wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT closed vehicle
RT gunpowder wagon
<power and heating vehicles>
Railway vehicles acting as
portable sources of power or heat.
Plural form: <power and heating
vehicles>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <service vehicles and on-track plant>
NT generator van
NT steam heating boiler van
NT vacuum cleaning van
power car
Scope note required.
Warrant: HSTs at Work, R Ford & B Perren, Ian Allan Ltd, 1988
Plural
form: power cars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <multiple units by power>
NT diesel power car
NT driving motor car
NT non-driving motor car
NT uncoupled driving motor car
NT uncoupling non-driving motor car
<power collection components>
Vehicle components concerned
with the collection of traction current. For general electrical circuitry, see
<secondary electrical circuitry>.
Plural form: <power collection
components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <traction components>
NT antispall layer
NT axle brush
NT <conductor rail collection components>
NT <overhead power collection components>
NT <shore supply collection components>
RT <secondary electrical circuitry>
power controller
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: power controllers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <speed regulation components>
power frame
The interlocking signal
frame in a signalbox which controls points and signals by the use of pneumatic
or electric power.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: power
frames
USE power signalling frame
CL Control and communications
BT <lever frames by transmission>
NT miniature lever frame
power operated door
Doors on a train where the
locking is controlled by the Guard but which passengers may open by push button
while the lock is released.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: power operated doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door
power operated points
Points operated by a means
other than manual.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form:
power operated points
CL Track and track components
BT <turnouts by operation>
power semiconductor
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: power semiconductors
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
power signalling frame
The interlocking signal
frame in a signalbox which controls points and signals by the use of pneumatic
or electric power.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: power
signalling frames
UF power frame
CL Control and communications
BT <lever frames by transmission>
power station
An electricity generating
station supplying power for rail traction.
Warrant: Electric Trains, Their
Equipment and Operation, W A Agnew, Virtue & Company 1937
Plural form:
power stations
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply complexes>
power supply building
A building housing the
equipment supplying power for rail traction.
Warrant: Railway Terminology
Working Group
Plural form: power supply buildings
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply structures>
<power supply complexes>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <power supply complexes>
CL Built works and components
BT <complexes>
NT < electricity supply complexes>
NT <stationary propulsion systems>
RT <power supply buildings & structures>
Power Supply Section brake van
A departmental brake van
used by the Power Supply Section.
Warrant: Departmental Coaching Stock,
Roger Butcher & Peter Fox, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 3rd edition, 1987
Plural form: Power Supply Section brake vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT departmental brake van
<power supply structures>
Buildings and other
structures used connected with the generation and transmission of power,
generally for haulage purposes.
Plural form: <power supply
structures>
CL Built works and components
BT <single built works>
NT < electricity supply structures>
NT <stationary propulsion structures and equipment>
power switch
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: power switches
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
<power transmission components>
Vehicle components concerned
with the transmission of power from the engine to the wheels.
Plural form:
<power transmission components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <traction components>
NT big end
NT cardan shaft
NT connecting rod
NT connecting rod big end
NT coupling rod
NT crank
NT crosshead
NT drive gear wheel
NT drive shaft
NT hydraulic drive
NT jack shaft
NT motion
NT motor transmission
NT piston rod
NT quill drive
NT slide bar
NT traction link
NT wheelslide protection system
NT worm wheel
NT <traction current transmission components>
power unit
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: power units
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
powered canopy trolley
A lightweight on-track
machine which gives full protection to welds being formed using the thermit
welding process and provides in one unit all the facilities, equipment and
materials needed for the rapid production of welds.
Warrant: On-track plant
on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition,
1981, p13
Plural form: powered canopy trolleys
UF PCT
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
prairie locomotive
A steam locomotive with
2-6-2 wheel arrangement.
Warrant: Locomotive Cyclopedia of American
Practice, 13th Edition, 1947
Plural form: prairie locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT six coupled locomotive
preliminary routing indicator
An indicator associated with
a junction for which a splitting distant signal is provided that gives the
driver prior information about which route is set at the junction.
Warrant:
The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles,
Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: preliminary routing
indicators
CL Control and communications
BT route indicator
preserved railway
A section of abandoned
railway that has been restored and reopened by enthusiasts, who operate train
services with preserved locomotives and rolling stock.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: preserved railways
CL Railway types
BT leisure railway
NT heritage railway
Presflo wagon
A sealed British Railways
hopper wagon with a compressed air discharge system used for carrying powders in
bulk (e.g. cement or fly-ash).
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: Presflo wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <powder carrying vehicles>
Presspahn shield
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: Presspahn shields
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
pressure gauge (boiler)
A gauge for
measuring the steam pressure in the boiler.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural
form: pressure gauges (boiler)
USE boiler pressure gauge
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel and water controls and gauges>
prestwin silo wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of bulk powders equipped for air assisted discharge.
Warrant: British Railways Wagons - the first half million, D P Rowland, David
& Charles, 1985 p72.
Plural form: prestwin silo wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <powder carrying vehicles>
pre-recorded announcement
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pre-recorded announcements
CL Unattributed
BT <unattributed>
primary suspension
On a railway bogie the
flexible interface between the vehicle axle and the bogie frame consisting of
steel leaf or coiled spring or rubber blocks.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural
form: primary suspension
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT suspension component
<primitive disc and bar signals>
Signals developed in the
early nineteenth century that gave an indication by means of rotating boards,
etc. A wide variety of designs appeared but all were obsolete by the end of the
nineteenth century, although a few lingered on in use much later than this.
Plural form: <primitive disc and bar signals>
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by form>
NT disc and crossbar signal
NT Martin disc signal
RT disc signal
RT ground signal
private owner wagon
A wagon owned by a private
enterprise rather than by a railway company.
Warrant: Private Owner Wagons,
Bill Hudson, Oakwood Press, 1996
Plural form: private owner wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by ownership>
private railway
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: private railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways by ownership/funding>
NT estate railway
RT public railway
private saloon
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: private saloons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by function>
private siding
A siding giving access to
factory or similar premises and not owned by the railway company.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: private sidings
CL Track and track components
BT siding
privilege return ticket
Scope note
required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: privilege return
tickets
USE privilege ticket
PLUS return ticket
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <examples of factored ticket types>
privilege ticket
A ticket issued at a
heavily-discounted fare to railway employees and their families.
Warrant:
The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan
Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: privilege tickets
UF childs privilege return ticket
UF privilege return ticket
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type or age of traveller>
programme machine
A signalling system
introduced by LT in 1958 where the route setting was controlled by machines
activated by a roll of punched plastic, monitored from a Central Regulating
Room.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A
Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: programme machines
CL Control and communications
BT <central control>
property permit
An authority for a
non-member of staff to enter railway premises (e.g. maintenance or platform
catering or vending staff).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
property permits
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <permits>
prospectus
A railway company promoters'
first formal document outlining the purpose and benefits of the proposed
railway. Its purpose was to attract investment.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: prospectuses
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
Prossers wooden railway
A wooden guide wheel railway
developed by Prosser in the 1840s.
Warrant: Illustrated London News, November
1845
Plural form: Prossers wooden railway
CL Railway types
BT wooden railway
protected circuit
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: protected circuits
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
protection circuit
Electrical device using the
rails in an electric circuit which detects the absence of trains on a defined
section of track.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: protection circuits
CL Control and communications
BT track circuit
protector
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: protectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler assembly
prototype locomotive
A locomotive which is the
first of a new type, where other examples might be expected to follow successful
trials.
Warrant: Prototype Locomotives, Robert Tufnell, David & Charles,
1985
Plural form: prototype locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by innovation>
provender wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of provender.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
provender wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <other special traffic vehicles>
public railway
A railway available for the
use of the general public.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
public railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways by legal status>
NT common user railway
NT light railway
RT private railway
public roadway level crossing
A level crossing carrying a
public road across the railway.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
public roadway level crossings
CL Control and communications
BT <level crossings by type>
public timetable
A document showing the
publicly advertised times of train departures and arrivals at stations en route
(cf. the Working Timetable).
Warrant: Railway Relics and Regalia, Ed P
Whitehouse, Country Life, 1975
Plural form: public timetables
UF passenger timetable
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT timetable
public transport ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: public transport tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type of journey>
pug
A nickname for a 4 wheel
saddle tank locomotive designed for dock shunting duties.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: pugs
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT four coupled locomotive
pulley guide
A mechanical 'cage'
containing the signal rodding pulley.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of
Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: pulley guides
CL Control and communications
BT <wire transmission>
pulley wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of large pulleys, sheaves, etc. that could not be accommodated
within gauge on general merchandise wagons.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pulley wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
pulley wheel (signalling)
Mechanical castings of
various sizes used for directing the direction of signal wires or chains.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural
form: pulley wheels (signalling)
CL Control and communications
BT <wire transmission>
pulley (rope haulage)
The grooved wheel for a cord
to pass over set in a block and used to change the direction of a force.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: pulleys (rope haulage)
CL Track and track components
BT cable haulage track component
Pullman car
A specially appointed
observation or lounge car, originally of US design, in which passengers were
served refreshments at their armchair seats on payment of a supplementary
fare.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A
Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: Pullman cars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by ownership>
RT <passenger carriages by function>
Pullman class ticket
A ticket for a journey in a
Pullman carriage.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: Pullman class
tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by class>
RT supplement ticket
pumphouse
A building containing the
machinery and equipment required for pumping water.
Warrant: The Severn
Tunnel, Geoffrey Body, British Rail Publications, 1986
Plural form:
pumphouses
CL Built works and components
BT <drainage structures>
RT atmospheric engine house
pumping engine house
A building containing a
pumping engine for pumping water (e.g. out of a tunnel).
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: pumping engine houses
UF engine house (pumping)
CL Built works and components
BT <drainage structures>
punch ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: punch tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by form>
punched card
A thin card containing data
represented by holes punched in columns. Invented by Hollerith, the punched card
was used by railways in timetabling, ticketing and signalling.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: punched cards
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <documents by form>
punt wagon
A vehicle designed for the
carriage of showman's vans, etc.
Warrant: Wagons on the LNER - North
British, John Hooper, Irwell Press, 1991 p60
Plural form: punt wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <road vehicle carrying stock>
push rod brake
A brake where each wheel is
equipped with a single block on one side of the wheel, as opposed to one each
side.
Warrant: The Automatic Vacuum Brake, British Railways Board, 1967 p22
Plural form: push rod brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT brake
push-pull train
A locomotive hauled train in
which the locomotive remains at the same end of the train when travelling in
either direction and when at the rear is controlled from a drivers cab built
into the leading vehicle.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural
form: push-pull trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by formation>
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