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tablet 
A device carried by a Driver
as his authority to run over a single line worked by the Electric Token Block
System.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: tablets
CL Control and communications
BT block token
tablet catcher
The mechanical equipment for
receiving the single line tablet from or delivering it to a moving train.
Warrant: Two Centuries of Railway Signalling, G Kichenside & A Williams,
Oxford Publishing Company, 1998
Plural form: tablet catchers
CL Control and communications
BT <electric token block equipment>
tablet instrument
The instrument in the
signalbox for controlling single lines containing a number of signal line
tablets.
Warrant: Two Centuries of Railway Signalling, G Kichenside & A
Williams, Oxford Publishing Company, 1998
Plural form: tablet
instruments
CL Control and communications
BT <electric token block equipment>
tablet machine
The instrument in the
signalbox for controlling single lines containing a number of signal line
tablets.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: tablet machines
CL Control and communications
BT <electric token block equipment>
tablet pouch
A leather pouch mounted on a
steel hoop used for the transfer of single line tablets between the signalman
and the driver.
Warrant: Two Centuries of Railway Signalling, G Kichenside
& A Williams, Oxford Publishing Company, 1998
Plural form: tablet
pouches
CL Control and communications
BT <block system working>
tachogenerator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tachogenerators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <ancillary electrical equipment>
tail lamp
The red lamp displayed at
the rear of the last vehicle of the train.
Warrant: British Railways Rule
Book, 1950
Plural form: tail lamps
UF tailamp
CL Control and communications
BT <on-train signals>
NT Bardic electric tail lamp
NT fixed tail lamp
tail lamp bracket
The vertical tongue of metal
attached to each end of a railway vehicle for hold the tail lamp.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: tail lamp brackets
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT lamp bracket
tail rod
An extension to the piston
rod which protruded through the front of the cylinder. Also fitted to some
piston valves.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: tail rods
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
tailamp
The red lamp displayed at
the rear of the last vehicle of the train.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tailamps
USE tail lamp
CL Control and communications
BT <on-train signals>
tailboard
A gangway cover painted with
the title and logo of a named passenger train.
Warrant: Parkin, Keith British
Railways Mark 1 Coaches, Pendragon, 1991 p66
Plural form: tailboards
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <destination, etc. indicating equipment>
RT gangway component
tamper siding
A siding used for the
stabling of ballast tamping machines.
Warrant: Railway Track Diagrams -
Great Western, Quail Map Company, Third Edition, 2000.
Plural form: tamper
sidings
CL Track and track components
BT engineers siding
RT tamper (vehicle)
tamper (hand held)
A pneumatic or electric
power hand tool used to compact the ballast under the sleepers.
Warrant:
British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed),
The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1993 p219
Plural form: tampers
(hand held)
CL Tools and equipment
BT gangers equipment
RT tamper (vehicle)
tamper (vehicle)
An on-track machine used to
compact the ballast under the sleepers.
Warrant: British Railway Track:
Design, Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed), The Permanent Way
Institution, 5th Edition, 1993 p219
Plural form: tampers (vehicles)
UF on track self propelled tamping machine
UF tamping machine
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
RT tamper (hand held)
tamper/liner
An on-track machine used to
pack the track to its correct longitudinal and transverse level and pulling the
track to correct alignment.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways,
Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p21
Plural
form: tamper/liners
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT ballast tamper (vehicle)
NT switch and crossing tamper/liner
tamping machine
An on-track machine
used to compact the ballast under the sleepers.
Warrant: British Railway
Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, G H Cope (Ed), The Permanent Way
Institution, 6th Edition, 1993
Plural form: tamping machines
USE tamper (vehicle)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
tank and tender locomotive
A steam locomotive which is
provided with both (side) tanks and a separate tender
Warrant: A Hunslet
Hundred by L.T.C. Rolt, David and Charles 1964
Plural form: tank and tender
locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by water arrangements>
NT inverted tank and tender locomotive
NT pannier tank and tender locomotive
NT saddle tank and tender locomotive
NT side tank and tender locomotive
NT well tank and tender locomotive
tank assembly
One or more vessels attached
close to the boiler on a tank engine, or built into the tender, which carry the
locomotive boiler feed water supply.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing
Registers
Plural form: tank assemblies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
tank indicator
An indicator which shows the
quantity of water in the tender or tanks of a steam locomotive.
Warrant:
Locomotive Management, 10th edition, J T Hodgson& C S Lake, revised by W B
Oaten, Tothill Press, 1954
Plural form: tank indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel and water controls and gauges>
tank lid
The hinged cover on a
locomotive tank or tender tank to stop the ingress of foreign objects into the
tank and to prevent the contents of the tank from surging out in transit.
Warrant: The Locomotive of Today, Locomotive Publishing Company, 1927
Plural
form: tank lids
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT hatch component
tank locomotive
A steam locomotive which
carries its water in one or more tanks mounted on the locomotive itself rather
than in a separate tender.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H
Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: tank
locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by water arrangements>
NT inverted tank locomotive
NT pannier tank locomotive
NT saddle tank locomotive
NT side tank locomotive
NT well tank locomotive
tank transporting wagon
A wagon designed for the
carriage of military tanks, etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
tank transporting wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
tank wagon
A vehicle with a large
sealed container for carrying liquids or gases.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: tank wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT closed vehicle
tank (fuel - locomotive component)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tanks
(fuel - locomotive component)
USE fuel tank (locomotive component)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel storage components>
tank (locomotive component)
Use
'locomotive water tank' if appropriate. Use 'locomotive fuel tank' in the case
of tanks used to hold diesel fuel.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: tanks (locomotive component)
USE locomotive water tank
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
tank (water - locomotive component)
The vessel attached close to the boiler on a tank engine, or built into the
tender, which carry the locomotive boiler feed water supply.
Warrant:
Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co
Ltd, 1952
Plural form: tanks (water - locomotive component)
USE water tank (locomotive component)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
tapered boiler
A boiler design where the
diameter at the smokebox end is smaller than at the firebox end to allow the
maximum area for heating around the firebox.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web
Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: tapered boilers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler
tappet (interlocking component)
A long flat bar connected to
a point or signal lever which passes through the interlocking tray where one or
more cut-outs (known as 'ports') actuate the sliding locks that prevent the
signalling of conflicting movements.
Warrant: Signalling in the age of steam,
M A Vanns, Ian Allan, 1995
Plural form: tappets (interlocking component)
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical interlocking equipment>
tappet (valve gear)
Scope note
required.
Warrant: Orenstein and Koppel publicity material
Plural form:
tappets (valve gear)
USE valve gear tappet
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear component
tariff van
A brake van with goods
stowage space for conveying small freight consignments between wayside stations
and transhipment points.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tariff
vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT goods brake van
RT covered goods van
tarpaulin bar
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tarpaulin bars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <load support and securing components>
tarpaulin bar wagon
An open goods wagon fitted
with a tarpaulin bar to support a wagon sheet in order to provide
weatherproofing for the load.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
tarpaulin bar wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT open merchandise wagon
TASC
A railway maintenance vehicle
which can carry materials plus workers to and from the work site.
Warrant:
On-track plant on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd,
4th edition, 1981, p13
Plural form: TASCs
USE track and service car
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
tavern car
A specialised restaurant car
where internal arrangements were patterned on an old English tavern.
Warrant: Bulleid's Passenger Steam Passenger Stock, D Gould, The Oakwood Press,
1980
Plural form: tavern cars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by function>
telegraph instrument
Scope note required.
Warrant: The Electric Telegraph - A Social and Economic History, J Kieve, David
& Charles, 1973
Plural form: telegraph instruments
CL Control and communications
BT <telegraphy>
NT single needle speaking telegraph instrument
RT block instrument
<telegraphy>
Communication via an
apparatus consisting of a transmitting instrument (transmitter), a receiving
instrument (receiver), and a line or wire of any length connecting these, along
which an electric current from a battery or other source passes, the circuit
being made and broken by working the transmitter, so as to produce movements, as
of a needle or pointer, in the receiver, which indicate letters, etc., either
according to a code of signs, or by pointing to characters upon a dial. Used
here for equipment used for sending general messages rather than block
signalling instruments which appear under <train protection equipment>.
Warrant: Oxford English Dictionary
Plural form: <telegraphy>
CL Control and communications
BT <communications>
NT telegraph instrument
RT <block telegraphy>
<telephone exchanges, switchgear, etc.>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <telephone exchanges, switchgear, etc.>
CL Control and communications
BT <telephony>
NT absence switch
<telephone instruments, etc.>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <telephone instruments, etc.>
CL Control and communications
BT <telephony>
NT railway telephone
NT railway telephone component
<telephone line equipment>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <telephone line equipment>
CL Control and communications
BT <telephony>
NT telephone line insulator
telephone line insulator
A ceramic cup inverted over
a steel support, carrying the telegraph or telephone wires to insulate them from
earth.
Warrant: Searching for Railway Telegraph Insulators, W K Neal, The
Signal Box Press, 1982
Plural form: telephone line insulators
CL Control and communications
BT <telephone line equipment>
<telephony>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <telephony>
CL Control and communications
BT <communications>
NT railway telephone box
NT <telephone exchanges, switchgear, etc.>
NT <telephone instruments, etc.>
NT <telephone line equipment>
temporary railway
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: temporary railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways by function>
NT contractors railway
temporary speed restriction sign
A warning indicator placed
in advance, at the commencement or at the termination of a temporary speed
restriction.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: temporary speed
restriction signs
CL Control and communications
BT <trackside indicators>
NT commencement indicator
NT emergency speed restriction indicator
NT spate indicator
NT special speed restriction board
NT termination indicator
temporary steam tender
Scope note required.
Warrant: Articulated Locomotives, L Wiener, 1930
Plural form: temporary
steam tenders
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT steam tender
NT Bethlehem Auxilliary engine
NT Franklin reversible booster
RT articulated locomotive
temporary track
Temporary track laid during
the building of a railway or other civil engineering or construction
enterprise.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: temporary tracks
UF contractors track
UF jubilee track
CL Track and track components
BT <track by permanence>
ten coupled locomotive
A locomotive with ten
driving wheels, coupled together.
Warrant: Locomotive Management, 10th
edition, J T Hodgson & C S Lake, revised by W B Oaten, Tothill Press, 1954
Plural form: ten coupled locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by wheel arrangement>
NT decapod
ten foot
The central space on a four
track railway.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: ten
foot
CL Track and track components
BT <track areas by position>
tender
The separate vehicle
containing fuel and water supplies attached to a steam locomotive.
Warrant:
Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co
Ltd, 1952
Plural form: tenders
USE locomotive tender
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive component
RT brake tender
tender brake
A hand wheel or lever on the
tender connected to brake blocks acting on the tender wheels, the only means by
which early locomotives were stopped.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages,
Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: tender brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
tender drawgear
Components forming the
coupling between a locomotive and its tender.
Warrant: Great Western Railway
Drawing Registers
Plural form: tender drawgear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <buffing and drawgear>
NT drag box
NT dragbox buffer
NT dragbox coupling
tender locomotive
A steam locomotive which
carries its water in a separate vehicle (tender) which is usually placed behind
the locomotive.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson &
F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: tender locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by water arrangements>
tender oil tank assembly
The equipment fitted into
the tender for the storage of fuel in oil fired locomotives.
Warrant: Great
Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: tender oil tank
assemblies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel storage components>
tender water tank assembly
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: tender water
tank assemblies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
terminal platform
A platform that serves a
dead-end line.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling
in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form:
terminal platforms
CL Built works and components
BT platform
terminal station
A station that serves a
dead-end line.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: terminal stations
CL Built works and components
BT station
termination indicator
A sign at the running-off
end of a temporary speed restriction.
Warrant: The History & Development
of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway
Museum
Plural form: termination indicators
CL Control and communications
BT temporary speed restriction sign
terminus
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: termini
CL Built works and components
BT station
test cock
The valve fitted to Great
Western Railway locomotives for checking the level of the water in the boiler in
case of damage to the single boiler water level gauge.
Warrant: Great
Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: test cocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler assembly
test lamp
n/r.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: test lamps
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general test equipment>
test meter
n/r.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: test meters
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general test equipment>
test meter shunt
n/r.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: test meter shunts
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general test equipment>
test train
A train operated for testing
purposes.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: test trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT service train
NT bridge test train
NT clearance test train
NT track recording train
testing plant
A static testing station for
steam locomotives.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: testing plant
CL Tools and equipment
BT <rolling stock testing equipment and records>
testing set 'Megger' resistance meter
n/r.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: testing set 'Megger' resistance meters
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general test equipment>
theatre indicator
A type of alphanumeric route
indicator, normally used in conjunction with main signals.
Warrant: The
History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of
the National Railway Museum
Plural form: theatre indicators
CL Control and communications
BT route indicator
theatrical scenery van
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of theatrical scenery.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: theatrical scenery vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mail, parcels, etc. carrying vehicles>
thermic syphon
A device placed in the
firebox to assist in the circulation of water between boiler and firebox crown
to improve the evaporation rate.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
thermic syphons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <heat exchange components>
thin card ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: thin card tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by form>
third and fourth rail collection locomotive
An electric locomotive or
powered unit which collects its electric current from a third rail and returns
the current through a fourth rail rather than through the running lines.
Warrant: Electric Railway Engineering, H F Parshall & H M Hobart, D Van
Nostrand Co., 1910
Plural form: third and fourth rail collection
locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <electric locomotives by current collection>
third class carriage
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: third class carriages
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by class>
third class ticket
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Tickets, Timetables & Handbills, M I Bray, Moorland
Publishing Company Ltd, 1986
Plural form: third class tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by class>
third rail
An additional rail beside
the two running rails used to carry DC power to electrified trains.
Warrant:
Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: third rails
USE positive conductor rail
CL Track and track components
BT conductor rail
third rail collection locomotive
An electric locomotive or
powered unit which collects its electric current from a third rail and returns
the current through the running rails.
Warrant: Electric Locomotives and
Their Development, Henry Greenly pp1-38
Plural form: third rail
collections
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <electric locomotives by current collection>
third rail electric railway
A traction current
collection system which uses an addition rail to transmit the electrical supply
and which is collected by shoes attached to the train.
Warrant: Southern
Electric 1909-1979, G T Moody, Ian Allan Ltd, 1979
Plural form: third rail
electric railways
CL Railway types
BT electric railway
third rail electric railway equipment
The equipment used to
operate the third rail electric railway system.
Warrant: Electric Railway
Engineering, H F Parshall & H M Hobart, Van Nostrand, 1910
Plural form:
third rail electric railway equipment
CL Track and track components
BT conductor rail equipment
NT end post
Thomas Hughes rail
A round section rail with
the ends bent down to fit into holes in the sleepers. Patented by Thomas Hughes
and used for temporary track in quarries, etc.
Warrant: Slate Quarry Album -
Welsh slate tramways and their equipment, G & A Hatherill, RCL Publications,
2001 p14
Plural form: Thomas Hughes rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by form>
three aspect signal
A colour-light signal
capable of displaying three aspects.
Warrant: The History & Development
of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway
Museum
Plural form: three aspect signals
CL Control and communications
BT multiple-aspect signal
three hole disc wheel
A railway vehicle wheel in
which the axle and rim are joined by a disc pierced by three holes to reduce
weight without compromising strength.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: three hole disc wheels
UF 3-hole disc wheel
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT disc wheel
three link coupling
The coupling used on
shunting engines and loose coupled goods vehicles consisting of three links of
chain.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form:
three link couplings
UF 3-link coupling
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
three throw slide chair
A slide chair designed to
support the stock rail and two tongue rails in a three throw switch.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth
& J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p231
Plural form: three throw slide
chairs
CL Track and track components
BT switch slide chair
three throw turnout
An arrangement of two
turnouts with their switches lying alongside each other.
Warrant: Railway
Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas
Sever, 1922 p230 Warrant: Railtrack Group Standard
Plural form: three throw
turnouts
CL Track and track components
BT <turnouts by layout>
three throw turnout chair
A chair designed to support
the stock rail and two tongue rails beyond the heel of a three throw switch.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth
& J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p231
Plural form: three throw turnout
chairs
CL Track and track components
BT turnout chair
throat plate
The front portion of the
outer firebox below the boiler barrel and spanning the firebox outer
wrapper.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B
Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: throat plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT firebox component
through booking ticket
A ticket issued to
facilitate travel on more than one network or company's services, e.g. travel
from a main-line station to one on the London Underground.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: through booking tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type of journey>
through line
A running line at a station
which has no platform so that trains do not stop.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: through lines
CL Track and track components
BT running line
through station
A station for mainly non
terminal lines.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: through stations
CL Built works and components
BT station
through train
A train that stops only at
major stations.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: through
trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by frequency of stops>
through-type concrete sleeper
A
sleeper or track tie made from a single slab of concrete.
Warrant: British
Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed, The
Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979 p50
Plural form: through-type
concrete sleepers
USE concrete monolithic sleeper
CL Track and track components
BT concrete sleeper
throwover
Scope note required.
Warrant: Locomotive Panorama, Vol.1, E S Cox, Ian Allan, 1965
Plural form:
throwovers
CL Control and communications
BT point lever (trackside)
thyristor
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form:
thyristors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
ticket
A printed piece of paper,
card or a metal token which shows that the bearer has paid to travel on the
train.
Warrant: Railway Tickets, Timetables & Handbills, M I Bray,
Moorland Publishing Company Ltd, 1986
Plural form: tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <permits>
NT <examples of factored ticket types>
NT <tickets by form>
NT <tickets by print features>
NT <tickets by service provided>
<ticket accessories>
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Tickets, Timetables & Handbills, M I Bray, Moorland
Publishing Company Ltd, 1986
Plural form: <ticket accessories>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <permits>
NT free ticket envelope
NT ticket protector
NT ticket wallet
ticket bag
A canvas or leather bag
normally used for collected tickets.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: ticket bags
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket bag label
A label for a canvas or
leather bag normally used for collected tickets.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket bag labels
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket barrier
An opening in the rail or
fence separating public areas from the train platform, through which passengers
must pass to entrain or detrain, with or without a gate.
Warrant: Railway
Relics and Regalia, Ed P Whitehouse, Country Life, 1975
Plural form: ticket
barriers
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
RT ticket hall barrier
ticket bearing conditions of use
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tickets bearing conditions of
use
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by print features>
ticket box
A box or hopper for
collected tickets usually located at a ticket barrier.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: ticket boxes
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket canceller
A device for cancelling
tickets, may be by removal of a small portion, by embossing or by inked
stamp.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket cancellers
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket clippers
A device for punching or
marking tickets as proof of passage.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: ticket clipperss
CL Tools and equipment
BT ticket/fare collectors equipment
ticket dating press
A device for applying the
date of issue to pre-printed tickets.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: ticket dating presses
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
ticket dispenser
A device for retaining
tickets in order for easy removal at point of issue.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: ticket dispensers
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
ticket grippers
A hand-held device
for cancelling tickets by removal of a small section of the ticket.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: ticket grippers
USE ticket nippers
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket hall barrier
A barrier provided in a busy
ticket hall or booking office to prevent 'crowding' of persons transacting
business at the ticket window.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: ticket hall barriers
CL Built works and components
BT <station structure components>
RT ticket barrier
ticket holder
A device for retaining
tickets in order for easy removal at point of issue.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: ticket holders
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
<ticket inspection equipment>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <ticket inspection equipment>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <passenger traffic accounting>
NT ticket bag
NT ticket bag label
NT ticket box
NT ticket canceller
NT ticket nipper
NT ticket punch
NT ticket shredding machine
ticket issuing machine
A machine for issuing
tickets from blank paper or card roll; may be conductor/guard operated.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket issuing machines
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
NT bell punch
NT Flexiprinter
NT Gibson machine
NT Handiprinter
NT Hugin machine
NT platform ticket machine
NT Setright machine
NT Ultimatic machine
ticket issuing machine component
Components for a machine for
issuing tickets from blank paper or card roll.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket issuing machine components
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
NT Flexiprinter slug
NT Handiprinter slug
NT ticket machine backplate
NT ticket machine baseplate
NT ticket machine case
NT ticket machine handle
NT ticket machine harness
NT ticket machine indicator
NT ticket machine strap
NT ticket machine tool
ticket machine
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket machines
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
ticket machine backplate
A backplate worn by a
conductor/guard upon which is mounted a portable ticket machine.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: ticket machine backplates
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket machine baseplate
A baseplate for a booking
office ticket machine.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket
machine baseplates
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket machine case
A case for a portable ticket
machine.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket machine
cases
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket machine handle
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket machine handles
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket machine harness
A harness for wearing a
portable ticket machine.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket
machine harnesses
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket machine indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket machine indicators
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket machine strap
A strap for wearing a
portable ticket machine or bell punch.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: ticket machine straps
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket machine tool
A tool used in connection
with operating a ticket machine, such as a blade for clearing jams, etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket machine tools
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket nipper
A hand-held device for
cancelling tickets by removal of a small section of the ticket.
Warrant:
Passenger Tickets, L Wiener, The Railway Gazette, c.1930
Plural form: ticket
nippers
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket nippers
A hand-held device for
cancelling tickets.
Warrant: Passenger Tickets, L Wiener, The Railway
Gazette, c.1930
Plural form: ticket nippers
UF ticket grippers
CL Tools and equipment
BT ticket/fare collectors equipment
ticket office
A room, office or
structure used by clerks issuing tickets for travel to the public.
Warrant:
The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan
Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: ticket offices
USE booking office
CL Built works and components
BT <station rooms and spaces>
<ticket printing equipment>
Equipment for pre-printing
tickets. For machines that print tickets as part of the issuing process, see
'ticket issuing machine'.
Plural form: <ticket printing equipment>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <passenger traffic accounting>
NT free pass matrix
NT ticket type
ticket protector
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket protectors
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket accessories>
ticket punch
A hand-held device for
cancelling tickets by removal of a small section of the ticket.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: ticket punches
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket rack
A device for retaining
tickets in order for easy removal and ensuring tickets are not issued out of
sequence.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket racks
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
ticket roll
A blank paper or card roll
for a ticket machine.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket
rolls
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
<ticket selling equipment>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <ticket selling equipment>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <passenger traffic accounting>
NT cash bag
NT coin acceptor
NT coin acceptor mechanism
NT coin bag
NT fares board
NT fares book
NT fares chart
NT fares list
NT fares table
NT ticket dating press
NT ticket dispenser
NT ticket holder
NT ticket issuing machine
NT ticket issuing machine component
NT ticket machine
NT ticket rack
NT ticket roll
ticket shredding machine
After return of audited
tickets by the RCH, tickets were destroyed by shredding to prevent reuse and
fraud. An example of an LYR ticket shredding machine is in the collection of the
NRM.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket shredding
machines
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket type
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket types
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket printing equipment>
ticket wallet
A device used by passengers,
usually given by the railway operator for retaining season ticket, travelcard or
pass.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket wallets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket accessories>
ticket window
A window or opening in the
partition between the public and the ticket clerk, forming a secure point for
sales to the public.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural
form: ticket windows
CL Built works and components
BT <station structure components>
ticket/fare collectors equipment
Tools and equipment carried
by ticket collectors for carrying out their duties eg ticket clippers.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket/fare collectors equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
NT fare collectors bag
NT ticket clippers
NT ticket nippers
<tickets by form>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <tickets by form>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket
NT booklet ticket
NT coupon ticket
NT Edmondson ticket
NT large card ticket
NT paper ticket
NT punch ticket
NT thin card ticket
<tickets by print features>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <tickets by print features>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket
NT child snip ticket
NT direct printed ticket
NT double coupon ticket
NT horizontally printed ticket
NT miniature repeat ticket
NT multi-coupon ticket
NT ribbon printed ticket
NT serial numbered ticket
NT series numbered ticket
NT ticket bearing conditions of use
NT title printed ticket
NT vertically printed ticket
<tickets by service provided>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <tickets by service provided>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket
NT non-travel ticket
NT travel ticket
tie (sleeper)
A sleeper, sometimes
expressed as a cross tie (ie transverse sleeper). US terminology. Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: ties
USE sleeper
CL Track and track components
BT <track bearers>
timber block sleeper
A hardwood timber block used
as sleepers in the same manner as stone blocks on early railways.
Warrant:
Jim Rees, Beamish North of England Open Air Museum
Plural form: timber block
sleepers
CL Track and track components
BT wooden sleeper
timber buffer stop
Structure at the end of a
track to prevent vehicles proceeding off the end of the line, made out of
wood.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: timber buffer
stops
CL Track and track components
BT buffer stop
timber railway
Scope note
required.
Warrant: The Kerry Tramway and other Timber Light Railways, D Cox
& C Krupa, Plateway Press, 1992
Plural form: timber railways
USE forestry railway
CL Railway types
BT freight railway
<timber/steel carrying vehicles>
Open freight vehicles
primarily designed to carry a long load of timber or steel, often supported on
bolsters.
Plural form: <timber/steel carrying vehicles>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load or function>
NT bogie bolster wagon
NT bolster wagon
NT deal wagon
NT hollow bolster wagon
NT pole wagon
NT single bolster wagon
NT twin articulated single bolster wagon
NT twin bolster wagon
time card
A card on which is recorded
the start and finish time of an employee's working day. This card is inserted in
a time clock at the commencement of duties ('clocking on') and again at the end
of a shift ('clocking off').
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares,
Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: time cards
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll documentation>
time card rack
A rack, normally adjacent to
a time clock, holding employee's time cards.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: time card racks
UF time recording rack
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <employee timekeeping hardware>
time clock
A device for recording onto
card, by printing, embossing or hole-punching, the time an employee starts or
finishes work.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: time clocks
UF Bundy clock
UF clocking-in clock
UF timekeepers clock
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <employee timekeeping hardware>
RT clock card
time of operation locking
The locking of facing points
immediately beyond an exit signal, when a train is approaching the signal.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British
Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: time of operation
locking
CL Control and communications
BT <track circuiting>
time recording rack
A rack,
normally adjacent to a time clock, holding employee's time cards.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: time recording racks
USE time card rack
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <employee timekeeping hardware>
time release
A device of control used to
prevent the operation of a signalling function until after the lapse of a
specified time.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: time releases
CL Control and communications
BT <track circuiting>
time sheet
A manual document that
records the times an employee starts and finishes duty.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: time sheets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll documentation>
timekeepers clock
Scope note
required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: timekeepers clocks
USE time clock
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <employee timekeeping hardware>
timetable
A document showing the times
of train departures and arrivals at stations and passing points, en route (cf.
the Working Timetable).
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares,
Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: timetables
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
NT public timetable
RT working time table
timetable frame
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: timetable frames (RT)
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
timetable holder
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: timetable holders (RT)
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
timetable leaflet
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: timetable leaflets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
timetable notice
A document advising railway
employees of variations to the timetable, or of special conditions to be
observed in the operation of the railway.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: timetable notices
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
<timetabling>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <timetabling>
CL Control and communications
NT working timetable
tipping vehicle
A railway vehicle with a
tilting body to facilitate discharge of its load.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tipping vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by access/discharge arrangements>
tippler wagon
A mineral wagon built
without doors and emptied by being turned over bodily by a device known as a
tippler. Used particularly for the carriage of iron ore.
Warrant: British
Railways Wagons - the first half million, D P Rowland, David & Charles, 1985
p57.
Plural form: tippler wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by access/discharge arrangements>
title printed ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: title printed tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by print features>
toe
The tip of the switch rail
at the end that fits against the stock rail.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural
form: toes
CL Track and track components
BT running rail
token (drivers authority)
A device
carried by a Driver as his authority to run over a single line worked by the
Electric Token Block System.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: tokens (drivers authority)
USE block token
CL Control and communications
BT <electric token block equipment>
token (passengers pass)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tokens (passengers pass)
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <permits>
<tokenless block system equipment>
Equipment used in the
tokenless block system.
Plural form: <tokenless block system
equipment>
CL Control and communications
BT <block system working>
Tommy Dod
Slang for a shunting
signal. Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: Tommy Dods
USE shunting signal
CL Control and communications
BT shunting signal
tongue rail
The moving portion of
rail on each side of a set of points. Warrant: British Railway Track: Design,
Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed), The Permanent Way Institution,
5th Edition, 1979 p82
Plural form: tongue rails
USE switch rail
CL Track and track components
BT <switch rails>
RT switch (track sub-assembly)
tool van
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of tools and equipment required during engineering operations,
etc..
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tool vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <laboratory, workshop and tool vehicles>
NT rerailing equipment vehicle
TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
Tools and portable
equipment, furniture, etc. Fixtures and fittings will normally be included in
the Built works class. Some portable signalling equipment and tools (e.g.
signalman's lamps and flags, reminder appliances, point clips, detonators) are
allocated to the Control and communications class.
CL Tools and equipment
Hierarchies
NT <ceremonial tools and equipment>
NT <general tools and equipment>
NT <railway manufacturing and maintenance equipment>
NT <railway medical equipment>
NT <railway operating tools and equipment>
NT <unidentified tools and equipment>
top door rail
A horizontal structural
member forming the top of a vehicle door.
Warrant: Railway Carriages and
Wagons: Their design and construction (reprinted articles from The Railway
Engineer 1892-7), Sidney Stone, republished by Peter Kay, circa 1997 Fig 468.
Plural form: top door rails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door framing
top feed
The non return valve
allowing the admission of boiler feed water directly into the boiler steam
space, mounted on top of the boiler.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing
Registers
Plural form: top feeds
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler assembly
top light rail
A horizontal structural
member running along the vehicle body side immediately above the quarter
lights.
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: top light rails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT side framing
top light rail moulding
The horizontal moulding
placed over the joint between the top quarter panel and the top of the quarter
lights and upright panel, along the line of the top light rail.
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: top light rail mouldings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body moulding
top quarter panel
The panel immediately above
the quarter lights on a carriage body.
Warrant: Railway Carriages and Wagons:
Their design and construction (reprinted articles from The Railway Engineer
1892-7), Sidney Stone, republished by Peter Kay, circa 1997.
Plural form:
top quarter panels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body panel
<TOPS equipment>
Total Operations Processing
System: a computerised system of train movement operation. Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: <TOPS equipment>
CL Control and communications
BT <train control>
torpedo ventilator
An external roof ventilator
shaped like a cockle shell.
Warrant: The Illustrated history of LMS standard
coaching stock Vol 3: Non-corridor, special purpose and self-propelled vehicles,
David Jenkinson & Bob Essery, Oxford Publishing Company, 2000 p8
Plural
form: torpedo ventilators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof ventilator
totem
A graphic design acting as a
corporate identifier, often incorporating the initials of the organisation or
related conceptual symbolism.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
totems
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <corporate identity>
totem sign
A sign, usually showing the
name of a station, following a particular design motif.
Warrant: A
Collector's Guide to Railwayana, Handel Kardas (Ed), Ian Allan Publishing Ltd,
2001
Plural form: totem signs
CL Built works and components
BT station name sign
Toton signal
An indicator for controlling
loading or unloading movements.
Warrant: The History & Development of
Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: Toton signals
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by function>
tourist ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tourist tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type or age of traveller>
tow bar
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tow bars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
tower wagon
A railborne vehicle
providing access to overhead lines and other overhead structures for
installation and maintenance purposes.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: tower wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <overhead structure maintenance vehicles>
TPO
A carriage exclusively devoted to
the carriage of mail in which letters are sorted during the journey to save
time.
Warrant: Mail by Rail, P Johnson, Ian Allan Publishing, 1995
Plural form: TPOs
USE travelling post office
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT mail van
track
The running lines and
sidings of a railway or tramway.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: tracks
CL Track and track components
NT <track by construction>
NT <track by permanence>
track and service car
A railway maintenance
vehicle which can carry materials plus workers to and from the work site.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5
Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p13
Plural form: track and service
cars
UF TASC
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
TRACK AND TRACK COMPONENTS
Track types, assemblies, sub
assemblies and individual components. Includes the trackbed, rails and
associated features such as rail lubricators, etc. Also includes individual
lines of track (e.g. fast line, goods line, up line, passing loop, siding) but
not a complete section of railway (as in branch line, junction, etc.) which is
treated as a route complex in the Built works class.
CL Track and track components
Hierarchies
NT line (track)
NT track
NT track component
NT trackwork
NT <track areas>
NT <traction supply equipment>
NT <unidentified track>
<track areas by function>
Areas of the trackbed
defined by their function.
Plural form: <track areas by function>
CL Track and track components
BT <track areas>
NT catch pit
NT dish
NT drainage
NT hole
NT kip
NT walkway
<track areas by position>
Areas of the trackbed
defined by virtue of their position.
Plural form: <track areas by
position>
CL Track and track components
BT <track areas>
NT four foot
NT six foot
NT ten foot
<track areas>
Topological features on the
permanent way that do not exist as objects as such.
Plural form: <track
areas>
CL Track and track components
NT <track areas by function>
NT <track areas by position>
<track bearers>
Sleepers, blocks, etc. used
to spread the load of passing trains to the ballast.
Plural form: <track
bearers>
CL Track and track components
BT track component
NT sill
NT sleeper
NT waybeam
<track by construction>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <track by construction>
CL Track and track components
BT track
NT <track by jointing>
NT <track by rail type>
NT <track by support>
<track by jointing>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <track by jointing>
CL Track and track components
BT <track by construction>
NT continuous welded track
NT jointed track
<track by permanence>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <track by permanence>
CL Track and track components
BT track
NT permanent way
NT temporary track
<track by rail type>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <track by rail type>
CL Track and track components
BT <track by construction>
NT bullhead track
NT flat bottomed track
NT plateway track
<track by support>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <track by support>
CL Track and track components
BT <track by construction>
NT slab track
NT sleepered track
track circuit
An electrical device using
the rail in an electric circuit, which detects the absence of trains on a
defined section of line.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural
form: track circuits
UF rail circuit
CL Control and communications
BT <track circuiting>
NT berth track circuit
NT jointless track circuit
NT overlay track circuit
NT protection circuit
RT track circuit diagram
RT track circuit indicator
track circuit bonding strip
The metal bonding strip
ensuring electrical contact between rail ends.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator
of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: track circuit bonding
strips
CL Control and communications
BT track circuit component
track circuit clip
A safety device carried in
driving cabs and guard's bags, which is placed on the track and, by
short-circuiting the track circuit, places the signal in rear at red.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: track circuit clips
CL Control and communications
BT <track circuiting>
track circuit component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: track circuit components
CL Control and communications
BT <track circuiting>
NT track circuit bonding strip
NT track circuit insulation
NT track circuit isolating joint
NT track circuit plate
track circuit diagram
The diagram in the signalbox
showing the layout of the track circuit (may be part of the signal diagram).
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural
form: track circuit diagrams
CL Control and communications
BT track diagram
RT track circuit
track circuit indicator
An electrical indicator
showing the status of the track circuit.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of
Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: track circuit
indicators
CL Control and communications
BT <control displays and indicators>
RT track circuit
track circuit insulation
Neoprene material used to
insulate the fishplates and bolts from the rail ends.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: track circuit
insulation
CL Control and communications
BT track circuit component
track circuit isolating joint
Neoprene material used to
insulate the fishplates and bolts from the rail ends.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: track circuit
isolating joints
CL Control and communications
BT track circuit component
track circuit operating clip
A safety device carried in
driving cabs and guard's bags, which is placed on the track and, by
short-circuiting the track circuit, places the signal in rear at red.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British
Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: track circuit
operating clips
CL Control and communications
BT <track circuiting>
track circuit plate
A cast iron plate fixed to
the railway sleeper to show the number and position of the individual track
circuit.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: track circuit plates
CL Control and communications
BT track circuit component
track circuit repeater
An electro-mechanical device
in a signalbox which provides the clear and occupied status of an individual
track circuit.
Warrant: A Pictorial Record of Great Western Signalling, A
Vaughan, Oxford Publishing Company, Revised Edn, 1984 p99
Plural form: track
circuit repeaters
CL Control and communications
BT <control displays and indicators>
RT track circuit
<track circuiting>
An electrical device using
the rail in an electric circuit, which detects the absence of trains on a
defined section of line. Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form:
<track circuiting>
CL Control and communications
BT <train detection systems>
NT time of operation locking
NT time release
NT track circuit
NT track circuit clip
NT track circuit component
NT track circuit operating clip
<track cleaning, greasing and adhesion
equipment>
All machinery, tools and
equipment used for cleaning, lubricating and maintaining the railway track.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: <track cleaning, greasing
and adhesion equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <permanent way tools and equipment>
NT handite
NT sandite
<track clearing components>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <track clearing components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle component
NT guard iron
NT sleet brush (vehicle component)
NT snow plough (attachment)
track component
An individual component of
the railway track.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: track
components
UF permanent way component
CL Track and track components
NT buffer stop component
NT rail joint component
NT track fastening
NT trackbed component
NT <cross ties>
NT <rack adhesion components>
NT <rail supports>
NT <track bearers>
NT <track maintenance assemblies>
NT <wheel supports and guides>
track diagram
A diagram displayed in the
signalbox showing the track layout with all relevant signalling features marked,
together with their corresponding lever numbers, etc.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: track diagrams
UF signal diagram
CL Control and communications
BT <control displays and indicators>
NT track circuit diagram
track fastening
A component used to fasten
rails, chairs or baseplates to each other or to sleepers.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: track fastenings
CL Track and track components
BT track component
NT <rail fastenings>
NT <rail support fastenings>
track gauge
An instrument for measuring
the distance between the inner faces of the railway track.
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: track gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT gangers equipment
track laying equipment
All the tools and equipment
used for constructing the track-bed and laying rails to form a railway line.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: track-laying equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT <permanent way tools and equipment>
NT mould for thermit welding
NT points blade straightener
NT rail drill
NT rail saw
NT rail tensor
NT rail weighing machine
NT sleeper dogs
<track maintenance assemblies>
Track components that help
to maintain the permanent way (e.g. by lubrication).
Plural form: <track
maintenance assemblies>
CL Track and track components
BT track component
NT flange lubricator
NT point heater
<track maintenance vehicles>
Railway vehicles and
on-track plant used for track maintenance.
Plural form: <track
maintenance vehicles>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <service vehicles and on-track plant>
NT ballast cleaner
NT ballast consolidator
NT ballast plough brake van
NT ballast profiler and grader
NT ballast regulator
NT ballast tamper (vehicle)
NT broken rail emergency vehicle
NT de-icing car
NT dynamic track stabiliser
NT general purpose track repair and maintenance machine
NT liner (maintenance vehicle)
NT materials handling tug
NT pneumatic ballast injection machine
NT powered canopy trolley
NT rail and material mover
NT rail changer (vehicle)
NT rail cleaner (vehicle)
NT rail grinder (vehicle)
NT rail profiler (vehicle)
NT rail transportation trolley
NT sleeper spacer and rail positioner (vehicle)
NT sleet brush (vehicle)
NT snow plough (vehicle)
NT swarf wagon
NT tamper (vehicle)
NT track and service car
NT track relayer
NT Unimog
track pan
US terminology for a
water trough. Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: track pans
USE water trough
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
track panel
An assembled length of plain
track.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: track panels
CL Track and track components
BT trackwork
NT track section
track panel wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of assembled track panels.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: track panel wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for permanent way materials>
track recorder
A scientific device used in
a moving vehicle to instantaneously identify, measure and record permanent way
defects.
Warrant: Richard Gibbon BSc FIMechE, National Railway Museum
Plural form: track recorders
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
NT Hallade track recorder
track recorder case
The case in which a portable
track recorder is carried.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form:
track recorder cases
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
track recorder roll
A roll of paper fitted into
a track recorder to log the results of the tests.
Warrant: National Railway
Museum
Plural form: track recorder rolls
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
track recording coach
A British Rail operated
track recording car. Formerly known as the high speed track recording coach.
Warrant: Great Western Coaches from 1890, M Harris, David St John Thomas,
Publisher, 1993 Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: track recording
coaches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <laboratory, workshop and tool vehicles>
track recording train
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: track recording trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT test train
track recording trolley
A railway vehicle equipped
for testing for defects in the track.
Warrant: On-track plant on British
Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p12
Plural form: track recording trolleys
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT track recording vehicle
track recording unit
A British Rail operated 2
car, self propelled track recording train.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: track recording units
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <laboratory, workshop and tool vehicles>
track recording vehicle
A 1973 tube car converted to
electronically measure track geometry at speed.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: track recording vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <laboratory, workshop and tool vehicles>
NT track recording trolley
track relayer
A railway vehicle designed
to relay track without occupying an adjacent line to the one being relayed, and
therefore suitable for use on single track routes. It is transported to the work
site on a separate wagon and operates on temporary tracks laid either side of
the track being relayed.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways, Roger
Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p49 & p52
Plural
form: track relayers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
NT twin jib crane
track section
A short length of complete
railway track.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: track sections
CL Track and track components
BT track panel
track sectioning cabin
A building containing
electrical switchgear and equipment which is arranged to connect together a
number of sections of OLE or third rail.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster,
1999
Plural form: track sectioning cabins
CL Built works and components
BT <control structures>
track substructure
The track substructure
includes the formation, ballast and any geotextile, geogrid, blanket.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: track substructure
UF substructure (trackbed)
CL Track and track components
BT <trackbed by position>
NT subgrade
<track sub-assemblies>
Assemblages of track
components that form a definable part of a complete track assembly such as a
turnout.
Plural form: <track sub-assemblies>
CL Track and track components
BT trackwork
NT cattle-cum-trespass guard
NT crossing (track sub-assembly)
NT point end
NT rail joint
NT switch (track sub-assembly)
NT turntable pit
NT water trough
NT <vehicle stopping sub-assemblies>
track testing equipment
All the tools and equipment
used for checking railway track to ensure that it is safe.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: track testing equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT <permanent way tools and equipment>
NT fishplate gauge
NT fishplate profile set
NT flangeway gauge
NT key profile
NT Matisa instrument
NT permanent way callipers
NT permanent way gauge
NT rail and fishplate profile
NT rail and fishplate profile set
NT rail bearing plate profile
NT rail bolt hole gauge
NT rail camber gauge
NT rail clip gauge
NT rail curve gauge
NT rail heel block profile
NT rail holing gauge
NT rail key gauge
NT rail key profile
NT rail level transfer gauge
NT rail profile
NT rail profile gauge
NT rail profile matrix
NT rail profile set
NT rail resistance meter
NT rail section
NT rail section tracing machine
NT railimeter
NT sleeper bearing plate profile
NT sleeper plate profile
NT sleeper profile
NT structure gauge
NT superelevation gauge
NT track recorder
NT track recorder case
NT track recorder roll
track trolley
A portable four wheeled
trolley used for transporting tools and materials, or a portable self propelled
rail mounted trolley used for transporting staff and light loads.
Warrant:
LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: track trolleys
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for permanent way materials>
<track workers safety equipment>
The tools and equipment used
by railway employees to ensure that safety is maintained whilst working on or
about the railway lines. Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form:
<track workers safety equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <permanent way tools and equipment>
NT lookouts equipment
NT short circuiting device
trackbed
Earthworks formed prior to
laying of permanent way.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design,
Construction and Maintenance, G H Cope (Ed), The Permanent Way Institution, 6th
Edition, 1993
Plural form: trackbeds
CL Track and track components
BT trackwork
<trackbed by material>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <trackbed by material>
CL Track and track components
BT trackbed component
NT ballast
<trackbed by position>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <trackbed by position>
CL Track and track components
BT trackbed component
NT track substructure
trackbed component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: trackbed components
CL Track and track components
BT track component
NT <trackbed by material>
NT <trackbed by position>
tracker ball (IECC)
A device that enables a
signalman to control points and signals in an IECC.
Warrant: The History
& Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the
National Railway Museum
Plural form: tracker balls
CL Control and communications
BT integrated electronic control centre component
<trackside indicators>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <trackside indicators>
CL Control and communications
BT <visual signals>
NT limit of shunt indicator
NT marker board
NT permanent speed restriction sign
NT temporary speed restriction sign
<trackside staff warning systems>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <trackside staff warning systems>
CL Control and communications
BT <signalling systems for other staff>
NT train operated warning system
trackwork
Railway track or permanent
way including buffer stops and level crossings in the immediate vicinity of the
tracks.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form:
trackwork
CL Track and track components
NT buffer stop
NT crossover
NT diamond crossing
NT junction trackwork
NT sector plate
NT track panel
NT trackbed
NT turnout
NT turntable
NT <track sub-assemblies>
traction and auxiliary supply set
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: traction and auxiliary supply
sets
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
traction and brake decoder
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: traction and brake decoders
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unidentified vehicle components>
traction and brake encoder
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: traction and brake encoders
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unidentified vehicle components>
traction and brake encoding system
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: traction and brake encoding
systems
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unidentified vehicle components>
traction capacitor
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: traction capacitors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <traction current transmission components>
traction circuit
An electrical circuit at
traction supply potential protected by an overload protection device.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: traction circuits
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <traction current transmission components>
<traction components>
Vehicle components concerned
with the generation and transmission of tractive power.
Plural form:
<traction components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle component
NT traction motor
NT <electric motor components>
NT <electricity generation components>
NT <engine components>
NT <exhaust components>
NT <power collection components>
NT <power transmission components>
NT <steam generation components>
traction control cut-out switch
A switch providing
electrical isolation of the traction control equipment on a vehicle.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: traction control cut-out
switches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <master controls>
traction controller
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: traction controllers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <speed regulation components>
<traction current transmission
components>
Electrical wiring and
associated components for transmitting traction current from the power
collection or generation equipment to the traction motors. For other electrical
circuits, see <secondary electrical circuitry>.
Plural form:
<traction current transmission components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
NT Bucholz relay
NT chopper control
NT droplead
NT electrical power control gear
NT frangible link
NT line breaker
NT motor generator set
NT notching relay
NT rectifier
NT traction capacitor
NT traction circuit
NT traction equipment wiring
NT unprotected circuit
traction earth fault detection system
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: traction earth fault detection
systems
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fault detection and safety equipment>
<traction electricity supply equipment>
Equipment placed on or
adjacent to the track that transmits electric traction current to the train.
Plural form: <traction electricity supply equipment>
CL Track and track components
BT <traction supply equipment>
NT conductor rail equipment
NT overhead line equipment
traction electronic unit
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: traction electronic units
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
traction equipment wiring
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: traction equipment wiring
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <traction current transmission components>
traction inductor
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: traction inductors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unidentified vehicle components>
traction link
A steel bar attached at one
end to the bogie frame and at the other end to the underframe of the locomotive
for transmitting power from the bogie to the body of a locomotive.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: traction links
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
traction motor
An electric motor used to
provide the final drive to a locomotive or train axle in electric and
diesel-electric systems.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares,
Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: traction
motors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <traction components>
RT electric motor
traction motor blower
A mechanism for blowing air
through the traction motor windings of a diesel-electric locomotive to cool
them.
Warrant: The Diesel Locomotive, R L Aston, 1957
Plural form:
traction motor blowers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <electric motor components>
traction pole
A support for the overhead
line equipment.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: traction
poles
CL Track and track components
BT overhead line equipment
traction pole strap
The device for attaching the
span wires and their insulators to the traction pole.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: traction pole straps
CL Track and track components
BT overhead line equipment
<traction source moving with train>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <traction source moving with train>
CL Railway types
BT <railways by power source>
NT animal powered railway
NT locomotive railway
NT <self-propelled using externally supplied power>
<traction supply equipment>
Equipment that transmits
mechanical, electrical, pneumatic or other power from an external source to
propel trains.
Plural form: <traction supply equipment>
CL Track and track components
NT <stationary propulsion track components>
NT <traction electricity supply equipment>
traction test switch
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: traction test switches
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
traction trip
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: traction trips
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
traction wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of road vehicles and machinery.
Warrant: An iIllustrated
History of Midland Wagons, Vol 2, R J Essery, Oxford Publishing Company, 1980
p54
Plural form: traction wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <road vehicle carrying stock>
traction/propulsion system
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: traction/propulsion systems
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
tractor
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tractors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mechanical off-track motive power>
traders season ticket
A ticket providing unlimited
travel between specified stations over a given period and sold at a discount for
use by travelling salesmen.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
traders season tickets
UF travelling salesmans season ticket
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT season ticket
traductor
An arm attached to the side
of a travelling post office vehicle from which a mail pouche is suspended prior
to transfer to the lineside net.
Warrant: Mail by rail, P Johnson, Ian
Allan, 1995 p89
Plural form: traductors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT access component
trailer car
A passenger vehicle in a
multiple unit which has no power equipment.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web
Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: trailer cars
UF trailer (multiple unit)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <multiple units by power>
NT driving trailer
NT driving van trailer
NT non-driving car
NT special trailer
NT uncoupling trailer
trailer (multiple unit)
A passenger
vehicle in a multiple unit which has no power equipment.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: trailers (multiple unit)
USE trailer car
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <multiple units by power>
trailing points
Points where lines converge
in the direction of travel.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: trailing points
CL Track and track components
BT <turnouts by orientation>
train
A number of railway
carriages, vans, or wagons coupled together (usually including the locomotive by
which they are drawn). Can be applied to a single railcar running alone whilst
in transit (but probably not a light engine).
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975 Warrant: LUL
Jargon Buster
Plural form: trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
NT <trains by braking>
NT <trains by formation>
NT <trains by form>
NT <trains by frequency of stops>
NT <trains by instigation/scheduling>
NT <trains by load/function>
NT <trains by loading>
NT <trains by operation>
NT <trains by propulsion method>
NT <trains by speed>
NT <trains by traffic flow>
train approaching platform bell
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: train approaching platform bells
CL Control and communications
BT <station staff warning systems>
train borne system
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: train borne systems
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
<train control>
A system of controlling,
organising and reorganising train and loco movements, staff duties, vehicle
provision, etc. over a large defined area of railways, working from a central
point, using telephones, diagrams, etc. Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: <train control>
CL Control and communications
NT train diagram
NT <TOPS equipment>
train describer
An apparatus which ensures
that the identity of each train is displayed on the signalbox panel together
with the indication of that train's presence, usually offering routing
information.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: train
describers
CL Control and communications
BT block instrument
NT train description receiver
NT train description transmitter
train description receiver
A device in a signalbox
which receives train descriptions from an adjacent signalbox.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: train description receivers
CL Control and communications
BT train describer
train description transmitter
A device in a signalbox
which is used to transmit train descriptions to an adjacent signalbox.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: train description transmitters
CL Control and communications
BT train describer
<train detection systems>
Systems that detect the
presence of a train on a particular section of track and provide an indication
to the signalman and/or directly control signals protecting that section of
track.
Plural form: <train detection systems>
CL Control and communications
BT <automatic train protection equipment>
NT axle counter
NT train operated route release
NT treadle
NT <track circuiting>
train diagram
A diagram showing the
formation of a particular train, including the vehicle numbers and the layout of
the carriages.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: train diagrams
CL Control and communications
BT <train control>
train door interlock cut-out switch
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: train door interlock cut-out
switches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
train equipment panel
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: train equipment panels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <ancillary controls>
train heating boiler
A boiler provided on diesel
passenger locomotives to generate steam for carriage heating.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: train heating boilers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
train heating pipe stop cock
A stop cock in the train
heating pipe adjacent to the flexible coupling to allow the pipe to be sealed at
the end of the train.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: train
heating pipe stop cocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
train line
The complete system of
brake pipes through a train. Also electric circuits for control purposes.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: train lines
USE train pipe
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake pipes, reservoirs, etc.>
train number indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: train number indicators
CL Control and communications
BT <central control>
train on line indicator
An integral part of the
standard block instrument that shows the signalman that there is a train on the
line between two signalboxes.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: train on line indicators
CL Control and communications
BT block instrument
train operated points
Points which are
continuously driven to one position such that facing movements will always pass
through them in the same direction.
Warrant: The History & Development
of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway
Museum
Plural form: train operated points
CL Track and track components
BT <turnouts by operation>
train operated route release
A method of releasing a
route automatically after the passage of a train.
Warrant: The History &
Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National
Railway Museum
Plural form: train operated route releases
CL Control and communications
BT <train detection systems>
train operated warning system
A system that gives
trackside staff audible warning of the approach of trains by means of safe and
warning tones activated by the signalling system to enable them to reach a place
of safety.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in
the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: train
operated warning systems
CL Control and communications
BT <trackside staff warning systems>
train operator seating
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: train operator seating
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
train pipe
The pipe through a train
with flexible connections between wagons or coaches used in connection with
automatic air and vacuum brake systems.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An
A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: train pipes
UF train line
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake pipes, reservoirs, etc.>
<train protection equipment>
Systems that help prevent
signalman or driver error allowing two trains to enter the same section of line.
Plural form: <train protection equipment>
CL Control and communications
BT <signalling>
NT < automatic train protection equipment>
NT <block system working>
NT <emergency detection equipment>
train protection system equipment
A
system that gives the driver an audible and visual confirmation of clear and
caution indications of signals and applies the brake if the caution warning is
not acknowledged. Used to give advance warning to drivers of a signal aspect, a
speed restriction more than 30% than the current limit. (Railtrack Jargon
Buster, 1999). Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: train protection
system equipment
USE automatic train control equipment
CL Control and communications
BT <automatic train protection equipment>
train radio
A two way voice and data
radio link between the Line Controller/ or depot and all trains on the line.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: train radios
CL Control and communications
BT <radio communication>
train ready to start indicator
An indicator in the signal
box, to indicate to the signalman to clear the platform starting signal.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British
Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: train ready to
start indicators
UF ready to start indicator
CL Control and communications
BT <signals from platform staff to signalman>
train ready to start plunger
The means by which station
staff operate the train ready to start indicator to inform the signalman that
the train is ready to depart.
Warrant: The History & Development of
Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: train ready to start plungers
UF ready to start plunger
CL Control and communications
BT <signals from platform staff to signalman>
train register
A book kept by signallers to
record the passage of trains, transmission of bell signals, the issue and
cancellation of 'possessions' and any exceptional circumstances.
Warrant:
Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: train registers
UF train register book
CL Control and communications
BT <central control>
train register book
A book kept by
signallers to record the passage of trains, transmission of bell signals, the
issue and cancellation of 'possessions' and any exceptional circumstances.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British
Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: train register
books
USE train register
CL Control and communications
BT <central control>
train set
A formation of (usually)
passenger vehicles.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: train sets
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
train set-up control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: train set-up controls
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
train shed
An overall roof covering all
tracks and platforms at through or terminal stations.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: train sheds
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
train staff
A labelled and distinctive
piece of wood or metal to be carried by the driver of a train on a one train
working line to ensure that no second train can be admitted to that section.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: train staffs
CL Control and communications
BT <single staff system equipment>
<train staff/passenger communication>
Inbuilt equipment for
transmitting verbal announcements to passengers. Includes passenger talkback
facilities.
Plural form: <train staff/passenger communication>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <on-train communications equipment>
NT passenger talkback control
NT passenger talkback indicator
NT saloon passenger information system
train starting bell
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: train starting bells
CL Control and communications
BT <signals from platform staff to passengers>
train stop
A device at the
trackside, which automatically stops a train attempting to pass a signal at
danger, by means of a raised arm held vertically in a position in which it
knocks open the trip cock on the offending train.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: train stops
USE trainstop
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical brake tripping devices>
train wire
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: train wires
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
traincrew operated crossing
A crossing equipped with
barriers or gates and operated by the guard or nominated person.
Warrant:
The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles,
Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: traincrew operated
crossings
CL Control and communications
BT <level crossings by operation>
<trains by braking>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <trains by braking>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT train
NT fully-fitted train
NT partially fitted train
NT unfitted train
<trains by formation>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <trains by formation>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT train
NT push-pull train
NT unit
<trains by form>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <trains by form>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT train
NT armoured train
<trains by frequency of stops>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <trains by frequency of stops>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT train
NT non-stop train
NT pick-up goods train
NT stopping train
NT through train
<trains by instigation/scheduling>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <trains by instigation/scheduling>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT train
NT charter train
NT relief train
NT scheduled train
<trains by load/function>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <trains by load/function>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT train
NT non-passenger train
NT passenger train
<trains by loading>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <trains by loading>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT train
NT empty coaching stock train
NT empty wagon train
NT operating train
<trains by operation>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <trains by operation>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT train
NT driverless train
NT one person operated train
<trains by propulsion method>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <trains by propulsion method>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT train
NT gas turbine train
NT rope worked train
NT steam train
<trains by speed>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <trains by speed>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT train
NT express train
NT high speed train
<trains by traffic flow>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <trains by traffic flow>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT train
NT merry-go-round train
trainstop
A device at the trackside,
usually at a signal, which automatically stops a train attempting to pass the
signal when it is at danger, when that is the case, its arm is raised and held
vertically in a position in which it knocks open the tripcock on the offending
train or loco.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form:
trainstops
UF train stop
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical brake tripping devices>
trainstop ramp
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: trainstop ramps
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical brake tripping devices>
tram engine
A locomotive designed with
covers over moving parts for use on or adjacent to the public highway.
Warrant: Modern Locomotive Design Bowen Cooke 1910
Plural form: tram
engines
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by operating environment>
tram plate rail
Early L section cast iron
rail.
Warrant: Early Railways, ed A Guy and J Rees, Newcomen Society, 2001
Plural form: tram plate rails
CL Track and track components
BT plate rail
tramcar wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of tramcars.
Warrant: British Goods Wagons from 1887 to the
Present Day, R J Essery, D P Rowland & W O Steel, David & Charles, 1970
p105
Plural form: tramcar wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <road vehicle carrying stock>
tramroad
The earliest form of
railway, lightly laid, with stone, wooden, metal stripped wooden of iron plate
l-section rails, carrying vehicles pushed manually or hauled horses mainly used
for the carriage of freight between mines, quarries, mills, etc. and ports.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: tramroads
CL Railway types
BT plateway
tramway
A term used in the early
nineteenth century for the earliest forms of conventional railway.
Warrant:
The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan
Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: tramways
UF casseyway
UF dillyway
CL Railway types
BT <railways by form>
tramway truck
A wagon used on a tramway
system.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tramway trucks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by place used>
transfer
An inscription, coat of arms
or other insignia designed to be transferred from a backing onto an object after
the completion of painting.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: transfers
CL Unattributed
BT <unattributed>
transfer contact
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: transfer contacts
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
transformer wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of large electrical transformers.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: transformer wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
tranship van
A covered van dedicated to
the conveyance of small loads between a number of minor stations and a
transhipment point where they could be consolidated into full wagonloads for
forwarding on to other parts of the system.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tranship vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT covered van
<transhipment complexes>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <transhipment complexes>
CL Built works and components
BT <complexes>
NT goods station
NT goods yard
NT station
<transhipment structure components>
Groups of buildings and
other structures for the transhipment of goods, mail and parcels or the boarding
and alighting of passengers.
Plural form: <transhipment structure
components>
CL Built works and components
BT <built work components>
NT < station structure components>
<transhipment structures>
Buildings and other
structures for the transhipment of goods, mail and parcels or the boarding and
alighting of passengers.
Plural form: <transhipment structures>
CL Built works and components
BT <single built works>
NT < freight transhipment structures>
NT <parcels and mail handling structures>
NT <station structures>
RT <transhipment complexes>
transom
A transverse bogie frame
member fixed between the side frames to give strength.
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: transoms
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT underframe component
transponder
Equipment fixed on or near
the track which passes information electronically to a train passing over
it.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the
British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form:
transponders
CL Control and communications
BT automatic train control equipment
transporter wagon
A railway vehicle designed
for the carriage of other railway vehicles built to a different gauge in order
to avoid the need for transhipment of the load at the break in gauge.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: transporter wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load or function>
NT road rail adapter truck
transverse sleeper
A sleeper set a right angles
to the rail, supporting the rail and fixing the gauge.
Warrant: Railtrack
Group Standard
Plural form: transverse sleepers
UF hardwood transverse sleeper
UF softwood transverse sleeper
CL Track and track components
BT <sleepers by orientation>
transverse stone sleeper
A stone sleeper set a right
angles to the rail, supporting the rail and fixing the gauge.
Warrant: Jim
Rees, Beamish North of England Open Air Museum
Plural form: transverse stone
sleepers
CL Track and track components
BT stone sleeper
trap points
Facing points at an exit
from a siding or converging line to derail an unauthorised movement or direct it
to a buffer stop.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form:
trap points
CL Track and track components
BT safety points
NT double trap points
NT single tongue trap
NT straddle switches
NT trap points with crossing
trap points with crossing
Trap points formed from a
pair of switches and a crossing to deflect vehicles well clear of the main
line.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance,
C.L. Heeler (Ed, The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979 p133.
Plural form: trap points with crossings
CL Track and track components
BT trap points
travel and admission ticket
A ticket that gives the
bearer admission to an event or attraction in addition to travel to the place
where it is being held, usually offered at a discounted price.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: travel and admission tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT travel ticket
travel permit
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: travel permits
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <permits>
travel ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: travel tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by service provided>
NT accompanied article ticket
NT excess fare ticket
NT supplement ticket
NT travel and admission ticket
NT <travel tickets by class>
NT <travel tickets by discount, etc.>
NT <travel tickets by number of journeys>
NT <travel tickets by type of journey>
NT <travel tickets by type or age of traveller>
<travel tickets by class>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <tickets by class>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT travel ticket
NT covered carriage ticket
NT first class ticket
NT fourth class ticket
NT parliamentary ticket
NT Pullman class ticket
NT second class ticket
NT third class ticket
<travel tickets by discount, etc.>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <tickets by discount, etc.>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT travel ticket
NT cheap day return ticket
NT excursion ticket
NT free ticket
NT market ticket
NT ordinary ticket
NT weekend ticket
<travel tickets by number of journeys>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <tickets by number of journeys>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT travel ticket
NT multi journey ticket
NT rail card
NT return ticket
NT season ticket
NT single ticket
NT weekly ticket
<travel tickets by type of journey>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <tickets by mode of transport>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT travel ticket
NT local ticket
NT public transport ticket
NT rail and river ticket
NT rail and road ticket
NT rail and sea ticket
NT railway ticket
NT through booking ticket
<travel tickets by type or age of
traveller>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <travel tickets by type or age of traveller>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT travel ticket
NT child ticket
NT forces ticket
NT pleasure party ticket
NT privilege ticket
NT servants ticket
NT tourist ticket
NT voters ticket
NT workmans ticket
travel warrant
A document issued to
individuals such as employees, service personnel, scholars, etc. by their parent
organisation, which could be exchanged for railway tickets of a prescribed
class/destination.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: travel warrants
UF warrant
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <permits>
travelling crane
A crane mounted on a truck,
used for minor breakdowns and accidents and also for loading and unloading in
sidings, etc. where no fixed crane exists.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary,
An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: travelling cranes
UF crane (vehicle)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cranes and ancillary vehicles>
NT <travelling cranes by function>
NT <travelling cranes by power source>
NT <travelling cranes by propulsion>
<travelling cranes by function>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <travelling cranes by function>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT travelling crane
NT breakdown crane
NT goods department travelling crane
<travelling cranes by power source>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <travelling cranes by power source>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT travelling crane
NT travelling diesel electric crane
NT travelling hand crane
<travelling cranes by propulsion>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <travelling cranes by propulsion>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT travelling crane
NT self-propelled crane
travelling diesel electric crane
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: travelling diesel electric
cranes
UF diesel electric rail crane
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <travelling cranes by power source>
travelling hand crane
A hand operated crane
mounted on a wagon chassis allowing it to be moved within or between yards to
the exact point at which it is needed.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: travelling hand cranes
UF hand crane (travelling)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <travelling cranes by power source>
travelling post office
A carriage exclusively
devoted to the carriage of mail in which letters are sorted during the journey
to save time.
Warrant: Mail by Rail, P Johnson, Ian Allan Publishing, 1995
Plural form: travelling post offices
UF TPO
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT mail van
travelling salesmans season ticket
A ticket providing unlimited travel between specified stations over a given
period and sold at a discount for use by travelling salesmen.
Warrant: GWR
Goods Services: An introduction, T Atkins & D Hyde, Wild Swan Publications,
2000 p56
Plural form: travelling salesmans tickets
USE traders season ticket
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT season ticket
tread brake
A traditional form of wheel
brake consisting of a block of friction material hung from a lever and being
pressed against the wheel tread by air pressure (in the air brake) or
atmospheric pressure in the case of the vacuum brake.
Warrant: Railway
Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: tread brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT brake
NT clasp brake
tread brake unit
A mechanical device used for
the transmission of force to the brake blocks consisting of a brake cylinder,
brake hanger, slack adjuster and in some units a parking brake actuator.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: tread brake units
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mechanical brake transmission components>
treadle
An electrical switch
operated by the train wheels (usually their flanges).
Warrant: Railtrack
London & North Eastern, A Glossary of Railway Terms, October 1998
Plural
form: treadles
CL Control and communications
BT <train detection systems>
trenail
A hardwood plug used with
track spikes for fastening chairs to sleepers.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: trenails
CL Track and track components
BT spike (rail fastening)
trench railway
A railway serving military
trenches.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: trench railways
CL Railway types
BT military railway
trespass sign
A sign warning the public
not to trespass on railway property, and usually outlining the penalty imposed
for doing so.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form:
trespass signs
CL Built works and components
BT <signs and markers>
trestle
A wooden or steel support
that holds large flat loads at an angle so that a greater width can be carried
than would be possible if the load were laid flat on the wagon floor.
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: trestles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <load support and securing components>
trestle plate wagon
A wagon designed to convey
large steel plates, which would otherwise be out of gauge, at an angle.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: trestle plate wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT plate wagon
trestle wagon
A straight bedded flat wagon
fitted with a heavy wood or steel framed trestle against which large steel
plates were leant.
Warrant: British Railways Wagons - the first half
million, D P Rowland, David & Charles, 1985
Plural form: trestle
wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load support and protection>
tribometer
A device for measuring the
adhesion between wheel and rail.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: tribometers
CL Tools and equipment
BT <rolling stock testing equipment and records>
tricomposite
A coach with seating
for first, second and third class passengers.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: tricomposites
USE tricomposite carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by class>
tricomposite carriage
A coach with seating for
first, second and third class passengers.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tricomposite carriages
UF tricomposite
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT composite carriage
tricycle (railway)
A three wheel, pedal
operated vehicle used by permanent way staff for track inspection, etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tricycles (railway)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <personnel transport>
trimming
The strands of woollen yarn
inserted into the oil pots to lubricate the bearing by capillary action.
Warrant: Steam Locomotive Lubrication, P W Skellon, MIC Publications, 1997
Plural form: trimmings
USE oil trimming
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT lubrication component
trip arm lever
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: trip arm levers
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical brake tripping devices>
trip lever
A lever mounted low on the
frame of a locomotive or motor coach which, on striking a raised trip arm
adjacent to a stop signal at danger, operates a valve to apply the brakes.
Warrant: British Railway Signalling, G Kichenside & A Williams, 3rd edition,
Ian Allan, 1975
Plural form: trip levers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <on-train mechanical brake tripping devices>
trip valve
Scope note required.
Warrant: Locomotives, their construction, maintenance and operation, A Morton
Bell, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1946
Plural form: trip valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <on-train mechanical brake tripping devices>
tripcock
A valve attached to a train
or locomotive which, if activated by an erect train stop arm, releases
compressed air from the train pipe, causing an immediate emergency brake
application.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: tripcocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <on-train mechanical brake tripping devices>
tripcock arm
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tripcock arms
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical brake tripping devices>
tripcock delay indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tripcock delay indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <automatic train control indicators>
tripcock isolating cock
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tripcock isolating cocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <on-train mechanical brake tripping devices>
tripcock isolating switch
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tripcock isolating switches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <on-train mechanical brake tripping devices>
tripcock reset
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tripcock resets
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <on-train mechanical brake tripping devices>
triple valve
The air brake valve
controlling the admission and exhaustion of air to and from the brake
cylinders.
Warrant: Locomotives, their construction, maintenance and
operation, A Morton Bell, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1946
Plural form: triple
valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake pipes, reservoirs, etc.>
trolley head
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: trolley heads
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <overhead power collection components>
trolley jumper
Cables suspended from a
trolley running on twin busbars carrying the traction supply along the entire
length of the shed road and terminating in a shed plug.
Warrant: LUL Jargon
Buster
Plural form: trolley jumpers
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply components>
trolley wagon
A railway vehicle with a
lowered floor for the carriage of large heavy loads.
Warrant: Wagons on the
LNER - North British, John Hooper, Irwell Press, 1991 p59
Plural form:
trolley wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
troop train
A passenger train
specifically chartered by military authorities for troop movements.
Warrant:
Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: troop trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger train
troughs
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: troughs
USE water trough
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
truck
An undercarriage attached to
a locomotive or vehicle by means of a king-pin or pivot, allowing passage round
curves.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan
A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: trucks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <running gear subassemblies>
NT Bissel truck
NT pony truck
trunk line
A railway system serving an
extensive area or two or more important urban centres.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: trunk lines
CL Railway types
BT inter-city railway
trunnion end
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: trunnion ends
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
tub rail
North Eastern slang for
narrow gauge colliery rail.
Warrant: Jim Rees, Beamish North of England Open
Air Museum
Plural form: tub rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by form>
tube detonator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tube detonators
CL Control and communications
BT detonator
tube plate
A plate at the leading and
rear ends of the boiler drilled with holes of the diameter required to hold the
boiler tubes.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F
B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: tube plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler component
tube stock
Rolling stock specifically
designed for service on the London underground railway system.
Warrant:
Underground Train File, Tube Stock 1933-1959, B Hardy, Capital Transport, 2001
Plural form: tube stock
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by place used>
tube wagon
A wagon primarily designed
for the carriage of iron or steel tubes but used for other long loads and
general merchandise when appropriate.
Warrant: British Railways Wagons - the
first half million, D P Rowland, David & Charles, 1985
Plural form: tube
wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steel carrying vehicles>
tube (boiler component)
One of the
horizontal pipes carrying smoke and burning gases from the firebox to the
smokebox, heating the boiler water which surrounds them and thus producing the
steam. The term 'tube' is generally used to mean smoke tube but use 'water tube'
if appropriate.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson &
F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: tubes (boiler
components)
USE smoke tube
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <heat exchange components>
tubular steel post type signal finial
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tubular steel post type signal
finials
CL Control and communications
BT signal post finial
tubular steel signal post
A signal post formed of
steel tube.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway
Museum
Plural form: tubular steel signal posts
CL Control and communications
BT signal post
tubular steel type signal assembly
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tubular steel type signal
assemblies
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
tumblehome
A contraction in body width
of a railway coach or tramcar below the waistline.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: tumblehomes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <bodywork areas>
tumbler frame
An interlocking mechanism
using a particular 'tumbler' actuation of locking, when the catch handle is
pressed the lock tumbles over, releasing the mechanism.
Warrant: Signalling
in the age of steam, M A Vanns, Ian Allan, 1995 p31
Plural form: tumbler
frames
CL Control and communications
BT interlocking frame
tunnel
A passage that has been dug
under the ground to allow a railway line to pass under higher ground or through
an urban area where land is at a premium (in the latter case usually constructed
on the 'cut and cover' principle.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: tunnels
CL Built works and components
BT earthworks
tunnel cleaning train
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tunnel cleaning trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT service train
tunnel component
Any individual part of a
tunnel.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: tunnel
components
CL Built works and components
BT <route structure components>
NT portal
NT refuge
NT tunnel light
NT tunnel segment
tunnel gauge vehicle
A railway vehicle equipped
for examining and testing tunnel linings to ensure that there has been no
movement that encroaches on the loading guage.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tunnel gauge vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT structure gauging vehicle
tunnel inspection coach
A railway carriage used for
tunnel inspections.
Warrant: Departmental Coaching Stock, Roger Butcher
& Peter Fox, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 3rd edition, 1987
Plural form:
tunnel inspection coaches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tunnel inspection vehicle
tunnel inspection train
A train operated for the
inspection of tunnels.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tunnel
inspection trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT service train
RT clearance test train
tunnel inspection vehicle
A railway vehicle used for
tunnel inspections.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tunnel
inspection vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT inspection vehicle
NT tunnel inspection coach
tunnel light
A light denoting a refuge in
a railway tunnel.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural
form: tunnel lights
CL Built works and components
BT tunnel component
tunnel locomotive
A steam or electric
locomotive designed for the movement of vehicles in long or restricted
tunnels.
Warrant: Hunslet Engine Company Catalogues
Plural form: tunnel
locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by operating environment>
tunnel segment
A preformed section of a
tunnel.
Warrant: The Channel Tunnel Story, G Anderson & B Roskrow, E
& F N Spon, 1994
Plural form: tunnel segments
CL Built works and components
BT tunnel component
tunnel signal
A signal within a tunnel or
an automatic signal which, if at danger, would cause a train to stop wholly or
partially within a tunnel.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway
Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: tunnel signals
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by location>
tunnel telephone
Independent communication
device between a stationary vehicle and line controller, for use when the
traction supply in a tunnel section is required to be removed by a train
operator, or in an emergency when the train radio is inoperative.
Warrant:
LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: tunnel telephones
CL Control and communications
BT railway telephone
tunnel telephone component
Part of a telephone used in
a railway tunnel.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National
Railway Museum
Plural form: tunnel telephone components
CL Control and communications
BT railway telephone component
tunnelling machine
A large diameter cylindrical
cutting machine for boring through the ground to create a tunnel.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: tunnelling machines
CL Tools and equipment
BT civil engineering equipment
tunnelling shield
A large diameter cylindrical
cutting machine for boring through the ground to create a tunnel.
Warrant:
The Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Ed A Pugsley, Institution of Civil
Engineers, 1976
Plural form: tunnelling shields
CL Tools and equipment
BT civil engineering equipment
turbine drive locomotive
A steam
locomotive designed with a turbine drive system in place of conventional
cylinders.
Warrant: North British Locomotive Co. Ltd
Plural form:
turbine drive locomotives
USE steam turbine locomotive
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by energy conversion>
turning force tester
A device for testing bogie
turning resistance on railway carriages.
Warrant: Richard Gibbon BSc FIMechE,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: turning force testers
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general tools and equipment>
turnout
The total assembly of
trackwork involved in 'turning out' one line from another by means of a pair of
switches, a crossing and a reverse curve running in the direction of the second
line, with or without an intermediate section of straight line. Strictly not
synonymous with points, but often so used.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary,
An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: turnouts
UF parting
CL Track and track components
BT trackwork
NT safety points
NT <turnouts by layout>
NT <turnouts by operation>
NT <turnouts by orientation>
RT slip
turnout chair
A chair designed to support
both the stock rail and switch rail beyond the heel of a switch.
Warrant:
Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth & J T
Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p162.
Plural form: turnout chairs
CL Track and track components
BT rail chair
NT three throw turnout chair
<turnouts by layout>
Turnouts categorised by
their layout.
Plural form: <turnouts by layout>
CL Track and track components
BT turnout
NT double turnout
NT three throw turnout
<turnouts by operation>
Turnouts described by their
method of operation.
Plural form: <turnouts by operation>
CL Track and track components
BT turnout
NT mechanical points
NT power operated points
NT self normalising points
NT spring points
NT train operated points
NT unworked point
<turnouts by orientation>
Turnouts described by their
orientation in relation to the normal direction of travel over the line in which
they are situated.
Plural form: <turnouts by orientation>
CL Track and track components
BT turnout
NT facing points
NT trailing points
turnover locomotive
A locomotive which waits at
a terminal station to take an incoming train away in the opposite direction
where the incoming locomotive cannot run round the train.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: turnover locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by activity>
turntable
A centrally pivoted
revolving table fitted with a section of line, used to turn a locomotive around
or move it from one line to another.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: turntables
CL Track and track components
BT trackwork
NT wagon turntable
RT sector plate
turntable pit
The circular pit, within
which a locomotive turntable rotates.
Warrant: Locomotive Running Shed
Practice, H Webster, Oxford University Press, 1947
Plural form: turntable
pits
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
twelve coupled locomotive
A locomotive with twelve
driving wheels, coupled together.
Warrant: Locomotive Management, 10th
edition, J T Hodgson & C S Lake, revised by W B Oaten, Tothill Press, 1954
Plural form: twelve coupled locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by wheel arrangement>
twelve wheel bogie carriage
A passenger vehicle carried
on two six-wheeled bogies.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: twelve wheel bogie carriages
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bogie carriage
twelve wheel bogie vehicle
A railway vehicle carried on
two six wheel bogies.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: twelve
wheel bogie vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bogie vehicle
twin articulated single bolster wagon
Two semi-permanently coupled
short wagon fitted with a load bearing bolsters, intended to carry long
loads.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: twin articulated single
bolster wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <timber/steel carrying vehicles>
twin block reinforced sleeper
A sleeper in which two
reinforced concrete blocks are connected by a steel bar.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: twin block reinforced sleepers
UF two-block concrete sleeper
CL Track and track components
BT concrete sleeper
twin bolster wagon
Two single bolster wagons
semi-permanently coupled together to form an articulated wagon set for the
carriage of long loads.
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: twin bolster wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <timber/steel carrying vehicles>
twin jib crane
An on-track machine used for
lifting track panels.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways, Roger
Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p49
Plural form: twin
jib cranes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT track relayer
two-aspect signal
A colour-light signal
capable of displaying two aspects.
Warrant: The History & Development of
Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: two-aspect signals
CL Control and communications
BT <colour light signals by number of aspects>
two-block concrete sleeper
A
sleeper or track tie made by casting, gluing or bolting a steel bar into two
concrete blocks.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and
Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed, The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979
p54
Plural form: two-block concrete sleepers
USE twin block reinforced sleeper
CL Track and track components
BT concrete sleeper
tyre
The removable steel outer
rim of the railway wheel incorporating the flange and the running surface.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue
& Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: tyres
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT wheel component
tyre gauge
A tool for measuring the
wear on the flange and profile of a railway wheel.
Warrant: National Railway
Museum
Plural form: tyre gauges
UF tyre wear gauge
CL Tools and equipment
BT <carriage and wagon tools and equipment>
tyre wear gauge
A tool for measuring
the wear on the flange and profile of a railway wheel.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: tyre wear gauges
USE tyre gauge
CL Tools and equipment
BT <carriage and wagon tools and equipment>
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