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R door 
A hinged connecting door
between vehicle saloons on London underground stock.
Warrant: LUL Jargon
Buster
Plural form: R doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door
<rack adhesion components>
Components forming or
supporting the central rail with regular teeth or indentations with which a gear
or cog wheel intermeshes on a mountain railway system.
Plural form: <rack
adhesion components>
CL Track and track components
BT track component
NT rack rail
NT rack (adhesion device)
RT rack railway
rack driving wheel
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rack driving wheels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive driving wheel
NT Blenkinsop rack wheel
rack locomotive
A locomotive which is
designed to engage with a specially designed track featuring arrangements of
steel teeth set continuously along the track to engage driven pinion wheels or
cogs under the locomotive
Warrant: The Snowdon Mountain Railway, K Turner,
David & Charles, 1973
Plural form: rack locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by adhesion method>
NT Abt rack locomotive
NT Blenkinsop system locomotive
NT Fell system locomotive
NT Locher system locomotive
NT Mallet combined rack and adhesion locomotive
NT Wetli system locomotive
RT mountain locomotive (environment)
rack rail
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rack rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rack adhesion components>
NT Blenkinsop rack rail
rack railway
A line using a mechanical
system with an arrangement of metal teeth set continuously along the track to
engage pinion wheels of cogs to enable trains to climb steep gradients.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: rack railways
CL Railway types
BT <self-propelled railways by adhesion method>
rack (adhesion device)
A central rail with regular
teeth or indentations with which a gear or cog wheel intermeshes on a mountain
railway system.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: racks (adhesion
devices)
CL Track and track components
BT <rack adhesion components>
RT rack railway
radial axle
Axle and wheel set which is
able to move within a fixed radius in a horizontal plane.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: radial axles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT wheel set
RT axle
<radio communication>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <radio communication>
CL Control and communications
BT <communications>
NT train radio
<radio control equipment>
Equipment used in the block
working system whereby train movements through 'block sections' are controlled
using radio communication between signalman and driver.
Plural form:
<radio control equipment>
CL Control and communications
BT <block system working>
NT < radio electronic token block equipment>
<radio electronic token block equipment>
Components of a signalling
system used mainly on single lines, where an electronic token is transmitted
between the controlling signal box and train.
Plural form: <radio
electronic token block equipment>
CL Control and communications
BT <radio control equipment>
NT range multiplier
radius rod
The component of Walchaerts
valve gear which links the expansion link with the combination lever. Reversing
of the locomotive is effected by raising or lowering the rod.
Warrant: Great
Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: radius rods
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear component
rail
A wooden or metal bar or
continuous line of bars along the ground usually as one of two forming a railway
track.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale
des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: rails
CL Track and track components
BT <wheel supports and guides>
NT < rails by condition>
NT <rails by form>
NT <rails by function>
NT <rails by installation>
NT <rails by material>
NT <rails by treatment>
rail anchor
A fastening attached to the
foot of the running rail and bearing against the side of a chair or sleeper to
resist longitudinal movement of the rail (rail creep).
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: rail anchors
CL Track and track components
BT <rail fastenings>
rail and fishplate profile
A gauge for measuring the
profile of both the rail and the fishplate.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail and fishplate profiles
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail and fishplate profile set
A set of gauges for
measuring the profiles of both the rail and the fishplate.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: rail and fishplate profile sets
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail and material mover
Scope note required.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5
Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p13
Plural form: rail and material
movers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
rail and river ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail and river tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type of journey>
rail and road ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail and road tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type of journey>
rail and sea ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail and sea tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type of journey>
rail baseplate
A flat plate fixed directly
to the railway sleeper, with a recess in which the flat-bottomed rail sits.A
metal casting which supports and holds a flat bottom rail on a sleeper.
Warrant: Gordon Reed, Permanent Way Institution
Plural form: rail
baseplates
UF base plate (track)
UF baseplate (rail)
CL Track and track components
BT <rail supports>
RT combined chair and baseplate
rail bearing plate profile
A gauge for measuring the
profile of the rail bearing plate.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail bearing plate profiles
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail bolt hole gauge
A gauge for measuring the
size of rail bolt holes.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form:
rail bolt hole gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail bus
A lightweight low-capacity
diesel or petrol railcar with bus or bus-type body, usually on four wheels, used
for passenger services on branch and other lightly-trafficked lines.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: rail buses
USE railbus
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT single unit stock
rail camber gauge
A gauge for checking and
measuring the amount the track is out of cross level, and also cant on
curves.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and
Maintenance, D H Coombs (Ed), The Permanent Way Institution, 4th Edition, 1971
Plural form: rail camber gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail car
A passenger carrying car
running singly or with others, propelled by an integral light steam, petrol or
diesel engine or by electric traction.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An
A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: rail cars
USE railcar
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT single unit stock
rail card
A document showing the
entitlement of the holder to use some form of concessionary ticket. E.g. Student
rail card.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail cards
UF railcard
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by number of journeys>
rail chair
A metal casting which
retains bullhead rail on wooden sleepers.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: rail
chairs
UF chair (rail support)
UF rail chair casting
CL Track and track components
BT <rail supports>
NT bridge chair
NT check chair
NT collar chair
NT common chair
NT crossing chair
NT crossing neck chair
NT switch blade chair
NT switch heel chair
NT switch slide chair
NT turnout chair
rail chair casting
Scope note
required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail chair
castings
USE rail chair
CL Track and track components
BT <rail supports>
rail chair pattern
A pattern used when casting
rail chairs.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail chair
patterns
CL Tools and equipment
BT <permanent way manufacturing tools and equipment>
rail changer (vehicle)
Scope note required.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5
Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p47
Plural form: rail changers
(vehicles)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
rail circuit
Train detection
equipment using the rails in an electric circuit, which detects the presence of
a train (as opposed to its absence).
Warrant: The History & Development
of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway
Museum
Plural form: rail circuits
USE track circuit
CL Control and communications
BT <track circuiting>
rail clamp
A heavy duty G clamp for
securing a pair of fishplates to a cracked rail, thus effecting a temporary
repair to allow trains to pass at restricted speed until such time as a
permanent repair can be made.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural
form: rail clamps
CL Track and track components
BT rail joint component
rail cleaner (vehicle)
An on-track machine used for
cleaning the railhead.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail
cleaners (vehicles)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
rail clip gauge
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail clip gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail clip (surveying instrument)
A
wooden surveying instrument to enable accurate measurements to be related back
to the running edge of the rail.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form:
rail clips (surveying instruments)
USE littleboy
CL Tools and equipment
BT surveying equipment
rail clip (track fastening)
A spring clip used to hold
flat bottomed rail to the baseplates.
Warrant: Thomas W Ward's Rail and Rail
Accessories Catalogue, 1960
Plural form: rail clips (track fastenings)
UF clip (rail)
CL Track and track components
BT <rail fastenings>
NT Mills C3R clip fastening
NT Pandrol clip
NT Pandrol insulator
rail curve gauge
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail curve gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail drill
A tool for drilling holes in
piece of rail which clamps to the rail to ensure accurate alignment.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: rail drills
CL Tools and equipment
BT track laying equipment
<rail fastenings>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rail fastenings>
CL Track and track components
BT track fastening
NT rail anchor
NT rail clip (track fastening)
NT rail key
NT rail spike
rail gauge
A tool for measuring the
profile of the rail.
Warrant: Uniform Railway Gauge, E Harding, Lothian
Publishing Company Pty. Ltd., 1958
Plural form: rail gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT permanent way gauge
rail grinder (vehicle)
A vehicle equipped with the
means of smoothing out imperfections and irregularities in rail surfaces,
usually by means of carborundum blocks.
Warrant: On-track plant on British
Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p48
Plural form: rail grinders (vehicles)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
rail grinding train
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail grinding trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT service train
rail heel block profile
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail heel block profiles
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail holing gauge
A gauge for measuring the
size of rail bolt holes.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form:
rail holing gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail ice scraper
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail ice scrapers
CL Tools and equipment
BT gangers equipment
rail joint
A track sub-assembly for
joining two lengths of rail whilst allowing for expansion.
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: rail joints
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
NT adjustment switch
NT insulated block joint
NT insulated rail joint
NT shop-made joint
rail joint component
Components that join the
ends of the rails to each other.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
rail joint components
CL Track and track components
BT track component
NT expansion gap
NT fish bolt
NT fishplate
NT fishplate insulator
NT rail clamp
NT rail joint insulator
rail joint insulator
A non-electrically
conducting preformed liner for fitting to a fishplate at an insulated joint.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail joint insulators
CL Track and track components
BT rail joint component
rail key
Key hammered in between the
rail and chair to hold the rail firm in the chair.
Warrant: National Railway
Museum
Plural form: rail keys
UF key (rail support)
UF wedge (rail key)
CL Track and track components
BT <rail fastenings>
NT Barlows fastener
NT steel key
NT wood key
rail key gauge
Gauge for measuring the
profile of rail keys.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail
key gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail key profile
A tool for measuring the
profile of rail keys.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail
key profiles
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail level transfer gauge
A gauge for checking and
measuring the amount the track is out of cross level, and also cant on
curves.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and
Maintenance, D H Coombs (Ed), The Permanent Way Institution, 4th Edition, 1971
Plural form: rail level transfer gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail pad
A cushioning pad placed
between the chair and sleeper, may be used to insulate the rail from electric
current.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail pads
CL Track and track components
BT <rail supports>
rail plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail plates
CL Track and track components
BT <unidentified track>
rail points 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: rail
points clamps
CL Control and communications
BT <point locking equipment>
rail profile
A thin section of rail used
for checking the wear on the surface of the rail.
Warrant: Lexique General
de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural
form: rail profiles
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail profile gauge
A gauge for measuring the
profile of the rail.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail
profile gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail profile matrix
A gauge for measuring the
profile of the rail.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail
profile matrices
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail profile set
A set of gauges for
measuring the profiles of both the rail and the fishplate.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: rail profile sets
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail profiler (vehicle)
An on-track machine used for
reprofiling used rails in-situ using cutting tools to remove thin layers of
metal from the railhead to restore the correct profile. operateded in
conjunction with a swarf wagon.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways,
Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p47
Plural
form: rail profilers (vehicles)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
RT swarf wagon
rail resistance meter
A device for measuring the
electrical resistance of the rail in connection with track circuitry.
Warrant: Richard Gibbon BSc FIMechE, National Railway Museum
Plural form:
rail resistance meters
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail saw
A tool for sawing rails to
length, usually clamped to the rail to give an accurate cut at right angles to
the rail.
Warrant: Track, J Pike, Sutton Publishing, 2001 p113
Plural
form: rail saws
CL Tools and equipment
BT track laying equipment
rail scale
A scale rule for use when
drawing trackwork.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail
scales
UF Browns universal rail scale
CL Tools and equipment
BT drawing instrument
rail seat
Those areas on the upper
face of a sleeper normally between 400mm and 660mm from each end where the rail
or chair sits.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: rail
seats
CL Track and track components
BT sleeper
rail section
A thin section of rail used
for checking the wear on the surface of the rail.
Warrant: Lexique General
de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural
form: rail sections
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail section tracing machine
A machine for measuring and
recording of the profile of the rail.
Warrant: Richard Gibbon BSc FIMechE,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail section tracing machines
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail spike
A heavy nail which holds
flat bottom rail to a sleeper.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: rail spikes
UF spike (rail fastening)
CL Track and track components
BT <rail fastenings>
<rail support fastenings>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rail support fastenings>
CL Track and track components
BT track fastening
NT chair fastening
<rail supports>
Components that directly
support the rail and/or spread or cushion the load to the sleeper.
Plural
form: <rail supports>
CL Track and track components
BT track component
NT rail baseplate
NT rail chair
NT rail pad
NT sleeper pad
rail tensor
A hydraulic device for
stretching continuous welded rail during rail stressing.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: rail tensors
CL Tools and equipment
BT track laying equipment
rail ticket
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Tickets, Timetables & Handbills, M I Bray, Moorland
Publishing Company Ltd., 1986
Plural form: rail tickets
USE railway ticket
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type of journey>
rail transportation trolley
A lightweight unpowered
railway vehicle for the transport of rails to the work site. Intended for use
with track and service cars.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways,
Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p15
Plural
form: rail transportation trolleys
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
rail vehicle component
Scope note
required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail vehicle
components
USE vehicle component
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
rail wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of rails.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail
wagons
UF railwagon
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for permanent way materials>
rail weighing machine
An apparatus for measuring
the weight per length of rail.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural
form: rail weighing machines
CL Tools and equipment
BT track laying equipment
railbus
A lightweight low capacity
diesel or petrol railcar with bus or bus type body, for passenger services on
branch or other low-traffic lines.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: railbuses
UF rail bus
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT single unit stock
railcar
A passenger carrying car
running singly or with others, propelled by an integral light steam, petrol or
diesel engine or by electric traction.
Warrant: The British Railcar, by R M
Tuffnell, David & Charles, 1984
Plural form: railcars
UF bubble car
UF rail car
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT single unit stock
NT diesel railcar
railcar component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: railcar components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <components by type of vehicle>
NT railcar power unit
railcar power unit
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: railcar power units
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT railcar component
NT railcar power unit articulated with carriage
NT railcar power unit built into carriage
railcar power unit articulated with carriage
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: railcar power units articulated with
carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT railcar power unit
railcar power unit built into carriage
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: railcar power units built into
carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT railcar power unit
railcard
An identification card to
enable particular categories of passengers to obtain discounted fares, e.g.
pensioners, students, etc.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: railcards
USE rail card
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by number of journeys>
railimeter
n/r.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: railimeters
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
railmotor
A single carriage, sometimes
with a trailer, powered by its own small steam locomotive.
Warrant: Phil
Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: railmotors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT single unit stock
<rails by condition>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rails by condition>
CL Track and track components
BT rail
NT damaged rail
NT failed rail
<rails by form>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rails by form>
CL Track and track components
BT rail
NT Barlow rail
NT bridge rail
NT bullhead rail
NT doubleway rail
NT edge rail
NT fish bellied rail
NT flat bottomed rail
NT iron bar rail
NT round top rail
NT singleway rail
NT Thomas Hughes rail
NT tub rail
<rails by function>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rails by function>
CL Track and track components
BT rail
NT check rail
NT running rail
NT street rail
<rails by installation>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rails by installation>
CL Track and track components
BT rail
NT closure rail
NT <crossing rails>
NT <switch rails>
<rails by material>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rails by material>
CL Track and track components
BT rail
NT cast iron rail
NT steel rail
NT wooden rail
NT wrought iron rail
<rails by treatment>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rails by treatment>
CL Track and track components
BT rail
NT continuous welded rail
NT heat treated rail
NT long welded rail
NT scarf joint rail
NT shop made joint rail
NT welded continuous rail
railwagon
A long bogie vehicle for
carrying rails. Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: railwagons
USE rail wagon
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for permanent way materials>
railway
Scope note required.
Warrant: The Victorian Railway, J Simmons, Thames and Hudson, 1991
Plural
form: railways
CL Railway types
NT <railways by form>
NT <railways by function>
NT <railways by gauge>
NT <railways by legal status>
NT <railways by location>
NT <railways by means of propulsion>
NT <railways by ownership/funding>
NT <railways by scale>
railway carriage
Scope note required.
Warrant: LNER Carriages, M Harris, David St John Thomas, 1994
Plural form:
railway carriages
UF carriage
UF coach
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by generic name>
railway crossing
A crossing where
two railway lines cross on a level.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: railway crossings
USE flat crossing
CL Built works and components
railway curve
A curved scale used for
calculating and drawing the correct radius of curve whe designing railway track
layouts.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: railway curves
CL Tools and equipment
BT drawing instrument
railway depot
A complex of sidings,
buildings, platforms, etc. where transhipment, stabling, servicing, repairs and
other such activities are undertaken.
Warrant: The Victorian Railway, Jack
Simmons, Thames & Hudson, 1991
Plural form: railway depots
UF depot
CL Built works and components
BT <complexes by form>
<railway manufacturing and maintenance
equipment>
Tools and equipment used in
the manufacture and maintenance of railway vehicles and equipment.
Plural
form: <railway manufacturing and maintenance equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
NT breakdown equipment
NT drawing office equipment
NT simulator
NT workshop document
NT workshop equipment
NT <permanent way tools and equipment>
NT <rolling stock testing equipment and records>
<railway medical equipment>
Equipment used in the
provision of first aid or other medical services for railway staff or
passengers. Only medical equipment specific to railways will be listed as
narrower terms. Standard equipment such as first aid boxes, stretchers, etc.
will not be listed but if used in a specific railway context can be classified
to this heading in addition to being recorded within the appropriate hierarchy
of another thesaurus (e.g. AAT).
Plural form: <railway medical
equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
NT eyesight testing equipment
<railway operating tools and equipment>
Any object or machine used
in the operation of the railways. Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural
form: <railway operating tools and equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
NT <carriage and wagon tools and equipment>
NT <draught animal equipment>
NT <general operating tools and equipment>
NT <on-train tools and equipment>
NT <railway yard and shed equipment>
NT <signal and telegraph maintenance equipment>
NT <station tools and equipment>
railway telephone
An instrument for
transmitting speech via electrical signals carried along wires.
Warrant:
Oxford English Dictionary
Plural form: railway telephones
CL Control and communications
BT <telephone instruments, etc.>
NT block telephone
NT signal box telephone
NT signal post telephone
NT tunnel telephone
railway telephone box
A booth or weatherproof box
containing a railway telephone.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
railway telephone boxes
CL Control and communications
BT <telephony>
RT signal telephone
railway telephone component
An instrument for
transmitting speech via electrical signals carried along wires.
Warrant:
Oxford English Dictionary
Plural form: railway telephone components
CL Control and communications
BT <telephone instruments, etc.>
NT ringing key
NT tunnel telephone component
railway ticket
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Tickets, Timetables & Handbills, M I Bray, Moorland
Publishing Company Ltd., 1986
Plural form: railway tickets
UF rail ticket
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type of journey>
RAILWAY TYPES
Complete railway systems.
Specific types of track, etc. are allocated to the Track and track
components class.
CL Railway types
Hierarchies
NT railway
railway wagon
Any railway vehicle used for
transporting goods.
Warrant: Principal Factors in Freight Train Operation,
Philip Burtt, George Allen & Unwin, 1924 p117
Plural form: railway
wagons
UF wagon
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by generic name>
railway wheel lathe
A special lathe
for turning railway wheels and the metal tyres on railway wheels.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: railway wheel lathes
USE wheel turning lathe
CL Tools and equipment
BT lathe
railway yard
A marshalling, stabling,
works or transhipment area served by a complex of sidings. If possible, use a
more precise term from the <complexes> heading.
Warrant: Railway
Terminology Working Group
Plural form: railway yards
UF yard
CL Built works and components
BT <complexes by form>
<railway yard and shed equipment>
All tools and equipment used
by railway employees working in railway yards and depots. Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: <railway yard and shed equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway operating tools and equipment>
NT shed trolley
NT shunting equipment
railwaymans bag
A bag supplied by the
railway company to railway employees to carry the tools and equipment required
for them to carry our their duties.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: railwaymans bags
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general operating tools and equipment>
<railways by form>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by form>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT monorail
NT plateway
NT stone railway
NT tramway
NT wooden railway
<railways by function>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by function>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT military railway
NT temporary railway
NT <railways by places served>
NT <railways by principal traffic>
<railways by gauge>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by gauge>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT broad gauge railway
NT minimum gauge railway
NT narrow gauge railway
NT standard gauge railway
<railways by legal status>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by legal status>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT public railway
<railways by location>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by location>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT funicular railway
NT mountain railway
NT overhead railway
NT underground railway
<railways by means of propulsion>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by means of propulsion>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT <railways by power source>
NT <self-propelled railways by adhesion method>
<railways by ownership/funding>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by ownership/funding>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT joint stock railway
NT private railway
NT state railway
<railways by places served>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by places served>
CL Railway types
BT <railways by function>
NT inter-city railway
NT metro
NT suburban railway
<railways by power source>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by power source>
CL Railway types
BT <railways by means of propulsion>
NT < stationary traction source>
NT <traction source moving with train>
<railways by principal traffic>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by principal traffic>
CL Railway types
BT <railways by function>
NT freight railway
NT passenger railway
<railways by scale>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by scale>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT miniature railway
NT model railway
<railways supporting other transport
systems>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways supporting other transport systems>
CL Railway types
BT freight railway
NT canal railway
NT dock railway
NT harbour railway
NT works railway
rail-built buffer stop
A buffer stop constructed
mainly from old rails, the actual buffer beam usually being of either timber or
rails.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail-built buffer
stops
CL Track and track components
BT buffer stop
Ramsbottom displacement lubricator
Scope note required.
Warrant: John Ramsbottom, The Father of the Modern Locomotive, F C Hambleton,
Stephenson Locomotive Society, 1936
Plural form: Ramsbottom displacement
lubricators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT lubricator
Ramsbottom safety valve
A direct loading safety
valve, one of the first tamper-proof varieties which enginemen could not
interfere with, invented by Ramsbottom, Superintendent of the London & North
Western Railway.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural
form: Ramsbottom safety valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT safety valve
range multiplier
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: range multipliers
CL Control and communications
BT <radio electronic token block equipment>
range railway
A railway serving a military
firing range.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: range railways
CL Railway types
BT military railway
rattle
An audible device in which a
wooden baton strikes against a ratchet when swung round.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: rattles
USE safety rattle
CL Tools and equipment
BT lookouts equipment
ready to start indicator
The
indicator that communicates from station staff to the signalman that the train
is ready to start.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National
Railway Museum
Plural form: ready to start indicators
USE train ready to start indicator
CL Control and communications
BT <signals from platform staff to signalman>
ready to start plunger
The
mechanism that actuates the ready to start indicator.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: ready to start
plungers
USE train ready to start plunger
CL Control and communications
BT <signals from platform staff to signalman>
real time clock
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: real time clocks
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general operating tools and equipment>
rear cylinder cover
A disc of iron or steel
carrying the piston rod stuffing box and slide bars, fitted to the back of a
locomotive cylinder to retain the steam in the cylinder.
Warrant: Great
Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: rear covers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
rectifier
Device for converting
alternating current to direct current.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
rectifiers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <traction current transmission components>
refreshment trolley
A hand cart carrying
refreshments for sale to passengers, used on train or on station platforms.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: refreshment trolleys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station trolleys and barrows>
refrigerated meat van
A vehicle with refrigeration
facilities dedicated to the conveyance of chilled or frozen meat.
Warrant:
Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: refrigerated meat vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT meat van
refrigerated van
A vehicle with refrigeration
facilities to prevent deterioration of perishable loads.
Warrant: A
Pictorial Record of LNER Wagons, P Tatlow, Oxford Publishing Company, 1976
Plural form: refrigerated vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by climate control>
refrigeration component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: refrigeration components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <environmental control components>
refuge
A place of safety in
tunnels, on viaducts and alongside high speed lines where employees can stand in
safety.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: refuges
CL Built works and components
BT tunnel component
refuge line
A dead end siding
allowing trains to be temporarily shunted off the running line to allow faster
trains to pass.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form:
refuge lines
USE refuge siding
CL Track and track components
BT <loops, refuges, etc.>
refuge siding
A dead end siding allowing
trains to be temporarily shunted off the running line to allow faster trains to
pass.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: refuge sidings
UF refuge line
CL Track and track components
BT <loops, refuges, etc.>
RT siding
refuse disposal van
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of refuse.
Warrant: Departmental Coaching Stock, Roger
Butcher & Peter Fox, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 3rd edition, 1987 p26 &
p46
Plural form: refuse disposal vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for waste materials>
regenerative brake
A braking system which
enables an electric locomotive or train to reduce its energy consumption by
feeding back the traction supply power generated by the motion of the train when
it is descending a gradient.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: regenerative brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
register
A book, ledger or other
document in which records are kept.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
registers
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <documents by form>
register of wagons
A document recording the
details of goods wagons. Especially those private owner wagons registered with
the pre-nationalisation companies.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: registers of wagons
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <stock registers>
registration arm
A cantilever which
accurately locates the conductor wire laterally in a horizontal plane in
overhead electrification systems.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
registration arms
CL Track and track components
BT overhead line equipment
registration plate
A plate, usually of cast
metal, giving the date, registration number and name of the railway company with
whom a private owner vehicle or locomotive has been registered.
Warrant:
Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: registration plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT identity plate
NT crane registration plate
regulator
The valve controlling the
flow of steam from a locomotive boiler to the cylinders.
Warrant: Great
Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: regulators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <speed regulation components>
RT boiler assembly
regulator casing
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: casings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT regulator component
regulator component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: regulator components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <speed regulation components>
NT handle (regulator)
NT regulator casing
NT regulator extension handle
NT regulator handle
NT regulator operating rod
NT regulator valve
RT boiler assembly
regulator extension handle
A long handle fitted to the
regulator handle to allow the driver to operate it whilst also being able to
lean out of the cab, mainly fitted to shunting locomotives.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: regulator extension handles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT regulator component
regulator handle
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: regulator
handles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT regulator component
regulator operating rod
The mechanical linkage
between the regulator handles and the regulator valve.
Warrant: Great
Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: operating rods
UF operating rod (regulator)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT regulator component
RT boiler assembly
regulator valve
The main steam control of a
steam locomotive, used to admit steam from the boiler into the cylinders.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form:
regulator valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT regulator component
RT boiler assembly
relay
A remotely controlled
electro magnet switch for low electrical currents used to make and break
circuits.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: relays
CL Control and communications
BT <electrical transmission>
NT shelf relay
NT signal relay
release hook
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: release hooks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT drawbar hook
relief line
Great Western Railway term
for the slower line in a multiple track area, usually known elsewhere as the
Slow Line.
Warrant: Railtrack London & North Eastern, A Glossary of
Railway Terms, October 1998
Plural form: relief lines
CL Track and track components
BT <running lines by speed of working>
relief train
An additional freight or
passenger train run just before or just after a regular scheduled service at
times when traffic levels are high and one train would not be adequate.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: relief trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by instigation/scheduling>
reminder appliance
A control device used to
remind a signalman that a particular lever, button or switch must not be
operated.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: reminder
appliances
CL Control and communications
BT <central control>
NT lever collar
NT signal lever collar
remote brake release control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: remote brake release controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake controls>
remotely controlled manned level crossing
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: remotely controlled manned level
crossings
CL Control and communications
BT manned level crossing
repair book
A notebook kept on the
footplate of a locomotive in which the footplate crew record any defects
occurring during its operation.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: repair books
CL Tools and equipment
BT workshop document
repair shop
Scope note required.
Warrant: Locomotives, their construction, maintenance and operation, A Morton
Bell, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1946
Plural form: repair shops
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair structures>
repeater
An electrically worked
indicator in a signalbox which shows the position of a semaphore signal, usually
one not visible from the box.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: repeaters
CL Control and communications
BT <signal confirmation>
repeater signal
A banner signal or
similar, placed at a lower point on the signal post, adopted in situations where
the main signal cannot be clearly seen in sufficient time.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: repeater signals
USE repeating signal
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by function>
repeating signal
A signal whose function is
to repeat the indication shown by another when the latter cannot be seen by the
driver.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: repeating signals
UF repeater signal
UF signal repeater (lineside signal)
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by function>
NT banner repeater
NT banner repeating signal
NT fog signal repeater
NT semaphore repeater
rerailing equipment vehicle
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of rerailing equipment required during recovery of derailed
locomotives or vehicles.
Warrant: Departmental Coaching Stock, Roger Butcher
& Peter Fox, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 3rd edition, 1987 p3
Plural
form: rerailing equipment vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tool van
rerailing ramp
A ramp, forming an inclined
path to guide a de-railed railway vehicle back onto the rails.
Warrant:
Encyclopedia of Railways, O S Nock, 1977
Plural form: rerailing ramps
CL Tools and equipment
BT breakdown equipment
reservation label
A card or paper label,
usually affixed to the top or back of a carriage seat to indicate that its
occupancy was reserved.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
reservation labels
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <reservation markers>
NT carriage reservation label
NT seat reservation label
<reservation markers>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <reservation markers>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <passenger traffic accounting>
NT reservation label
NT reservation plate
reservation plate
A metal sign used to
indicate that a passenger seat has been reserved.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural
form: reservation plates
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <reservation markers>
reservation ticket
A ticket issued to a
passenger indicating that they have reserved a specific seat in a specific
carriage on a specific train. The ticket would match up with a reservation label
or plate.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: reservation
tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT non-travel ticket
reservoir railway
A contractor's railway laid
to facilitate the building of a reservoir and associated works.
Warrant:
Reservoir Railways of Manchester and the Peak, H D Bowtell, The Oakwood Press,
1977
Plural form: reservoir railways
CL Railway types
BT contractors railway
RT water board railway
reservoir (brake)
A compressed air
or vacuum tank provided to supply braking systems with the correct pressure for
brake applications.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: reservoirs
USE brake reservoir
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
resetting cylinder
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: resetting cylinders
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
resetting rope
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: resetting ropes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake controls>
restarting injector
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: restarting injectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT injector
retarder
A rail-mounted brake to slow
down and stop wagons moving by gravity into sorting sidings in a marshalling or
hump yard.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: retarders
CL Track and track components
BT <vehicle stopping sub-assemblies>
NT Dowty retarder
return crank
A component of Walschaerts
valve gear, in effect an external eccentric, which provides movement, via the
eccentric rod, to the expansion link.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing
Registers
Plural form: return cranks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear component
return ticket
A ticket valid for both an
outward and return journey.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
return tickets
UF childs privilege return ticket
UF first class return ticket
UF ordinary return ticket
UF privilege return ticket
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by number of journeys>
reverse link
Scope note required.
Warrant: Developments in Locomotive Practice, Bowen Cooke, 1910
Plural form:
reverse links
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear component
reverser
A mechanism used to reverse
the direction of travel of a steam locomotive, via its valve gear.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: reversers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT reversing gear
NT air operated reverser
NT screw reverser
NT steam reverser
reverser switch
A switch used to change the
current direction through either the motor armature or the motor field in such a
way as to cause anti-clockwise or clockwise traction motor rotation.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: reverser switches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <reversing controls>
reversible unit
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: reversible units
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <multiple units by control>
reversing arm
The linkage between the
reversing shaft and the valve gear of a steam locomotive.
Warrant: Great
Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: reversing arms
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT reversing gear
reversing component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: reversing components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT reversing gear
<reversing controls>
Driver's controls that
reverse the direction of travel.
Plural form: <reversing controls>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driving and control components>
NT reverser switch
NT reversing lever
NT reversing lever latch
NT reversing stand
RT reversing gear
reversing gear
The mechanism that adjusts
the valve gear to reverse the direction of motion of a steam engine. For
driver's controls that operate the reversing gear, see <reversing
controls> in <driving and control components>.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: reversing gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear component
NT reverser
NT reversing arm
NT reversing component
RT <reversing controls>
reversing lever
A lever linked directly to
the valve gear of a steam locomotive, whereby cut-off and direction of travel
can be controlled.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: reversing levers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <reversing controls>
reversing lever latch
A locking mechanism
incorporated with the reversing gear of a steam locomotive.
Warrant: Great
Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: reversing lever latches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <reversing controls>
reversing stand
A quadrant shaped support
for the reversing lever with slots cut into its top surface to accommodate a
latch to hold the lever into the required position.
Warrant: Great Western
Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: reversing stands
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <reversing controls>
RT valve gear
rheostatic brake
A Brake used by locomotives
and trains fitted with electric traction motors where the motors become
generators and the current developed is fed to on-board resistor grids.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: rheostatic brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
ribbon printed ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ribbon printed tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by print features>
ridemeter
n/r.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: ridemeters
CL Tools and equipment
BT <rolling stock testing equipment and records>
right away indicator
An indicator actuated by the
station staff to inform the driver that the train can start.
Warrant: Ray
Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: right
away indicators
CL Control and communications
BT <signals from platform staff to driver/guard>
right away plunger
The mechanism that actuates
the right away indicator.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: right away plungers
CL Control and communications
BT <signals from platform staff to driver/guard>
rigid wheelbase vehicle
A vehicle which has its
wheels attached directly to the underframe rather than in bogies. Includes
semi-rigid wheelbase vehicles where there is limited lateral movement.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rigid wheelbase vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by wheel arrangement>
NT eight wheel vehicle (non bogie)
NT four wheel vehicle
NT six wheel vehicle
ringing key
The actuating button on the
signalbox telephone.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National
Railway Museum
Plural form: ringing keys
CL Control and communications
BT railway telephone component
road building railway
A contractor's railway laid
to facilitate the building of road.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: road building railways
CL Railway types
BT contractors railway
road rail adapter truck
A railway vehicle designed
to support the first vehicle in a train of road/rail trailers where the front
end of each subsequent trailer is supported by the one in front.
Warrant:
British Railways Wagons - the first half million, D P Rowland, David &
Charles, 1985 p59 & 67.
Plural form: road rail adapter trucks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT transporter wagon
road roller wagon
A wagon specially designed
to carry road rollers.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: road roller wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <road vehicle carrying stock>
road user operated level crossing
A crossing equipped with
field type gates operated by road users.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: road user operated level crossings
CL Control and communications
BT <level crossings by operation>
road van
A brake van with goods
stowage space for conveying small freight consignments between wayside stations
and transhipment points.
Warrant: The Principal Factors in Freight Train
Operation, Philip Burtt, George Allen & Unwin, 2nd Edition 1924 p173-4
Plural form: road vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT goods brake van
RT tranship van
road vehicle
Only railway specific (or
very strongly railway related e.g. mechanical horse) vehicles will be included
in this thesaurus.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: road
vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
NT mechanical horse
<road vehicle carrying stock>
Railway vehicles dedicated
to the carriage of road vehicles.
Plural form: <road vehicle carrying
stock>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load or function>
NT carriage truck
NT fire engine wagon
NT furniture van truck
NT motor car van
NT omnibus wagon
NT punt wagon
NT road roller wagon
NT traction wagon
NT tramcar wagon
road (track)
Railway jargon for a
railway line. Warrant: Railtrack London & North Eastern, A Glossary of
Railway Terms, October 1998
Plural form: roads (track)
USE line (track)
CL Track and track components
road/rail lorry
A vehicle with both road and
rail wheels designed in such a way that they can be raised or lowered to allow
travel on both road and rail tracks.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: road/rail lorries
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for permanent way materials>
road-rail milk tank wagon
A composite vehicle
comprising a four or six wheel flat wagon carrying a milk tank mounted on road
wheels attached by shackles.
Warrant: An Illustrated History of LMS Standard
Coaching Stock, Vol.1, D Jenkinson & R J Essery, Oxford Publishing Company,
1991
Plural form: road-rail milk tank wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <milk and dairy product carrying vehicles>
rocking grate
A grate which can be rocked
by means of a lever, shaking the remains of the fire through into the
ashpan.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B
Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: rocking grates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT grate
rocking lever
Scope note required.
Warrant: Orenstein and Koppel publicity material
Plural form: rocking
levers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear component
<rod transmission>
Equipment that transmits
control from the control point or motor to the equipment to be actuated by means
of rodding. Typically used for actuating points.
Plural form: <rod
transmission>
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical transmission>
NT backdrive
NT base plate (rodding)
NT point rod bell crank
NT point rod reversing linkage
NT point rodding
NT points rodding support
NT supplementary drive
roll
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rolls
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
roller bearing axlebox
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: roller bearing axleboxes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT axlebox
NT neveroil roller bearing axlebox
rolling stock
Passenger and freight
vehicles.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: rolling
stock
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle
NT <rolling stock by access/discharge arrangements>
NT <rolling stock by braking arrangements>
NT <rolling stock by condition>
NT <rolling stock by facilities>
NT <rolling stock by form>
NT <rolling stock by generic name>
NT <rolling stock by load or function>
NT <rolling stock by ownership>
NT <rolling stock by place used>
NT <rolling stock by propulsion>
NT <rolling stock by route/operating pattern>
NT <rolling stock by traffic rating>
NT <rolling stock by wheel arrangement>
<rolling stock by access/discharge
arrangements>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by access/discharge arrangements>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rolling stock
NT air assisted discharge vehicle
NT bottom discharge hopper wagon
NT bottom door vehicle
NT end door vehicle
NT roof door vehicle
NT side discharge hopper wagon
NT side door vehicle
NT tipping vehicle
NT tippler wagon
<rolling stock by braking arrangements>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by braking arrangements>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rolling stock
NT braked vehicle
NT unbraked vehicle
<rolling stock by climate control>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by climate control>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by facilities>
NT heated vehicle
NT insulated van
NT refrigerated van
NT ventilated van
<rolling stock by condition>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by condition>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rolling stock
NT cripple
<rolling stock by design feature>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by design features>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by form>
NT balloon
NT birdcage stock
NT clerestory stock
<rolling stock by facilities>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by facilities>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rolling stock
NT <rolling stock by climate control>
NT <rolling stock by load support and protection>
<rolling stock by form>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by forms>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rolling stock
NT closed vehicle
NT demountable container
NT freight container
NT open vehicle
NT <rolling stock by design feature>
<rolling stock by generic name>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by generic names>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rolling stock
NT railway carriage
NT railway wagon
NT van
<rolling stock by load or function>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by load or functions>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rolling stock
NT camping coach
NT container wagon
NT general merchandise wagon
NT passenger carriage
NT transporter wagon
NT <exhibition vehicles, etc.>
NT <foodstuff carrying vehicles>
NT <liquid carrying vehicles>
NT <livestock carrying vehicles>
NT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
NT <mail, parcels, etc. carrying vehicles>
NT <mineral carrying vehicles>
NT <non-revenue operating stock>
NT <other special traffic vehicles>
NT <powder carrying vehicles>
NT <road vehicle carrying stock>
NT <service vehicles and on-track plant>
NT <steel carrying vehicles>
NT <timber/steel carrying vehicles>
<rolling stock by load support and
protection>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by load support and protections>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by facilities>
NT pallet wagon
NT trestle wagon
<rolling stock by ownership>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by ownership>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rolling stock
NT private owner wagon
NT Pullman car
<rolling stock by place used>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by places used>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rolling stock
NT internal user wagon
NT surface stock
NT tramway truck
NT tube stock
<rolling stock by propulsion>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by propulsion>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rolling stock
NT fixed propulsion stock
NT horse hauled stock
NT locomotive hauled stock
NT self-propelled rolling stock
<rolling stock by route/operating
pattern>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by route/operating patterns>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rolling stock
NT ferry wagon
NT merry-go-round wagon
<rolling stock by traffic rating>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by traffic ratings>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rolling stock
NT coaching stock
NT freight stock
NT non-revenue stock
<rolling stock by wheel arrangement>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rolling stock by wheel arrangements>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rolling stock
NT articulated vehicle
NT bogie vehicle
NT rigid wheelbase vehicle
NT <specialised wheel arrangements>
<rolling stock testing equipment and
records>
Equipment for checking and
proving the operation of railway vehicles. Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: <rolling stock testing equipment and records>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway manufacturing and maintenance equipment>
NT braking curve
NT carriage maintenance gauge (buckeye)
NT locomotive testing equipment
NT log of locomotive performance
NT ridemeter
NT testing plant
NT tribometer
roof component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: roof components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <basic structural components>
NT cantrail
NT carline
NT cinder strip
NT roof dome
NT roof panel
NT roof stick
NT vehicle roof board
roof dome
The end cap of vehicle
roof.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural
form: roof domes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof component
roof door vehicle
Covered wagons with access
via doors in the roof for overhead loading (frequently in addition to
conventional side doors).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: roof
door vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by access/discharge arrangements>
roof lamp gas
Scope note
required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: roof lamps gas
USE gas roof lamp
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <artificial lighting components>
roof panel
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: roof panels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof component
roof stick
A curved horizontal rail
forming a transverse roof support.
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:
roof sticks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof component
NT partition roof stick
roof vent
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: roof vents
USE roof ventilator
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT ventilator
roof ventilator
An appliance or aperture in
the roof of a railway carriage for ventilation purposes.
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: roof ventilators
UF roof vent
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT ventilator
NT internal roof vent
NT shell ventilator
NT torpedo ventilator
roofed container
A covered freight
container.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: roofed containers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT freight container
<rooms and spaces by building type>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rooms and spaces by building type>
CL Built works and components
BT <rooms and spaces>
NT <station rooms and spaces>
<rooms and spaces>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rooms and spaces>
CL Built works and components
BT <building divisions>
NT <rooms and spaces by building type>
rope haulage railway
A device for hauling railway
traffic where gradients are unacceptably steep for the use of locomotives.
Warrant: A Treatise upon Cable or Rope Traction, J B Smith, Engineering, 1887
Plural form: rope haulage railways
CL Railway types
BT cable haulage railway
<rope worked stock components>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rope worked stock components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <components by type of vehicle>
NT counterbalance (vehicular)
rope worked train
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rope worked trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by propulsion method>
NT set
rope (load securing)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ropes (load securing)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <load support and securing components>
rope/chain hauled stock
Rolling stock intended
primarily for use on rope or chain hauled inclines and continuous ropeway
systems.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rope/chain hauled
stock
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT fixed propulsion stock
Ross safety valve
A mechanism to prevent the
steam pressure in a locomotive boiler from exceeding a pre-determined valve.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: Ross safety
valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT safety valve
rotary pneumatic accelerator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rotary pneumatic accelerators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <speed regulation components>
round top rail
An early type of iron rail
where the rail top was semi-circular.
Warrant: Jim Rees, Beamish North of
England Open Air Museum
Plural form: round top rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by form>
round train circuit
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: round train circuits
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <secondary electrical circuitry>
round train circuit cut-out
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: round train circuit cut-outs
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fault detection and safety equipment>
roundhouse
A building in which
locomotives are accommodated on tracks radiating from a central turntable.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: roundhouses
CL Built works and components
BT engine shed
<route by inclination, etc.>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <route by inclination, etc.>
CL Built works and components
BT <route complexes>
NT bank foot
NT bank head
NT bank top
NT gradient
NT inclined plane
NT summit
<route by status>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <route by status>
CL Built works and components
BT <route complexes>
NT branch line
NT main line (route)
<route complexes>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <route complexes>
UF civil engineering
CL Built works and components
BT <complexes>
NT < junctions and crossings>
NT <route by inclination, etc.>
NT <route by status>
RT <route structures>
route indicating signal
Any signal that has more
than one running route and is capable of displaying an indication of route.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: route indicating signals
CL Control and communications
BT directing signal
RT route indicator
route indicator
A device on a signal at a
junction displaying a stencil letter or number code corresponding to the
designation of the route to be taken by an approaching train.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: route indicators
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
NT alphanumeric route indicator
NT fibre-optic route indicator
NT multi-lamp route indicator
NT position light junction indicator
NT preliminary routing indicator
NT route stencil
NT stencil indicator
NT theatre indicator
RT route indicating signal
route information plate
A plate attached to the
signal levers, to indicate route setting.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of
Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: route information
plates
CL Control and communications
BT signal lever component
route learning train
A departmental train
operated in order to instruct drivers who are 'learning the road'.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: route learning trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT instruction train
<route maintenance structures>
Buildings and other
structures concerned with the maintenance of the railway route.
Plural form:
<route maintenance structures>
CL Built works and components
BT <single built works>
NT lineside hut
NT permanent way hut
route setting panel
A control panel for power
signalling system that automatically sets the points and signals over a section
of route selected by the signalman.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: route setting panels
CL Control and communications
BT control panel
route stencil
A mechanical indication of
the route ahead, where the light shines through a cut-out stencil.
Warrant:
Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form:
route stencils
CL Control and communications
BT route indicator
<route structure components>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <route structure components>
CL Built works and components
BT <built work components>
NT bridge component
NT tunnel component
<route structures>
Civil engineering structures
carrying the railway through the landscape.
Plural form: <route
structures>
CL Built works and components
BT <single built works>
NT bridge
NT earthworks
NT lineside fencing
NT <drainage structures>
NT <signs and markers>
RT <route complexes>
royal carriage
A passenger vehicle
specially designed for and dedicated to the conveyance of royal passengers.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: royal
carriages
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by function>
royal train
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: royal trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger train
rule 55 exempt indicator plate
A white diamond shaped plate
fixed in the horizontal plane to a signal post or doll. Conveys information to
the train crew that the signalman is aware of the presence of the train and that
they need not comply with rule 55 of the BR rulebook.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: rule 55 exempt indicator plates
CL Control and communications
BT <signal mounted signs>
rule book
A book which incorporates
the basic rules to be observed by general railway staff for the safe operation
of the network.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: rule
books
CL Control and communications
BT <rules and operating instructions>
<rules and operating instructions>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rules and operating instructions>
CL Control and communications
NT rule book
run
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: runs
CL Built works and components
BT earthworks
runner (vehicle door)
Scope note
required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: runners (vehicle
door)
USE vehicle door runner
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
runner (vehicle)
A vehicle (normally empty)
marshalled adjacent to a vehicle carrying a dangerous or overhanging load or
fitted with non-standard buffing and drawgear.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural
form: runners
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <non-revenue operating stock>
NT adaptor vehicle
NT barrier vehicle
NT match truck
running board
A narrow horizontal
walkway at approximately boiler base level on most steam locomotives along which
it is possible to access parts of the boiler and its fittings.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: running boards
USE running plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotive frame assemblies>
RT stepboard
running gear
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: running gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle component
NT brake gear
NT chassis
NT suspension component
NT underframe component
NT underframe system
NT <buffing and drawgear>
NT <locomotive frame assemblies>
NT <pneumatic system infrastructure>
NT <running gear subassemblies>
NT <wheel assemblies>
<running gear subassemblies>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <running gear subassemblies>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT running gear
NT bogie
NT truck
NT <bogie and truck components>
running line
Tracks for through train
movements as distinct from sidings, bays, docks and yards.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: running lines
CL Track and track components
BT line (track)
NT avoiding line
NT crossover line
NT through line
NT <running lines by control>
NT <running lines by direction of working>
NT <running lines by speed of working>
NT <running lines by type of train>
<running lines by control>
Tracks for through train
movements subject to particular types of control.
Plural form: <running
lines by control>
CL Track and track components
BT running line
NT block section
<running lines by direction of working>
Tracks for through train
movements in particular directions.
Plural form: <running lines by
direction of working>
CL Track and track components
BT running line
NT bi-directional line
NT down line
NT down main
NT single line
NT up line
NT up main
<running lines by speed of working>
Tracks for through train
movements at particular speeds.
Plural form: <running lines by speed of
working>
CL Track and track components
BT running line
NT fast line
NT main line (running line)
NT relief line
NT slow line
<running lines by type of train>
Tracks for through train
movements by particular types of train.
Plural form: <running lines by
type of train>
CL Track and track components
BT running line
NT goods line
NT passenger line
running number plate
Scope note
required.
Plural form: running number plates
USE number plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <owners identity plates>
running plate
The narrow horizontal
walkway seen at roughly boiler base level on most steam locomotives, along which
it is possible to access parts of the boiler and its fittings.
Warrant:
Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: running
plates
UF running board
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotive frame assemblies>
running rail
One of the rails of a
railway track upon which the wheels of the train rest and which provide support
and guidance.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: running rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by function>
NT blade (point)
NT toe
<running record plates, etc.>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <running record plates, etc.>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle identity and instruction plates>
NT mileage plate
NT vehicle running record holder
NT vehicle running record plate
running signal
A signal protecting
movements on running lines.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: running signals
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by function>
NT closing-up signal
NT directing signal
NT distant signal
NT stop signal
runs-as-required train
A freight train that appears
in the Working Time Table but is only run when there is a load to be
carried.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: runs-as-required
trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT scheduled train
run-round
A loop provided at stations
or yards to allow locomotives to run round their train for reversal or shunting
purposes.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: run-rounds
CL Track and track components
BT <shunting roads>
RT loop line
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