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wages bag 
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wages bags
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll hardware>
waggon repair shop
Scope note
required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: waggon repair
shops
USE wagon repair shop
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair structures>
waggon shed
A shed to house waggonway
wagons. The old spelling is used as, so far as is known, no such buildings date
from the more modern period and so the spelling 'wagon shed' has never been
applied.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: waggon sheds
CL Built works and components
BT <vehicle stabling and servicing structures>
waggonway
A seventeenth and eighteenth
century term for tramroad or tramway.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: waggonways
CL Railway types
BT colliery railway
wagon
A railway vehicle for the
conveyance of goods.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form:
wagons
USE railway wagon
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by generic name>
wagon component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wagon components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <components by type of vehicle>
wagon examiners hut
A lineside hut, usually
situated in a yard or siding, for the use of a wagon examiner.
Warrant:
Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: wagon examiners huts
CL Built works and components
BT <vehicle stabling and servicing structures>
wagon label
Scope note required.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: wagon labels
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
wagon label clip
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wagon label clips
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <signalling and control components>
wagon number plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wagon number plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT number plate
wagon repair shop
A workshop which is used for
the maintenance and repair of railway wagons.
Warrant: Railway Terminology
Working Group
Plural form: wagon repair shops
UF waggon repair shop
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair structures>
wagon sheet
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wagon sheets
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <load support and securing components>
wagon stock book
A document recording the
details of goods wagons in service with the railway. Used for establishing
ownership, maintenance and replacement schedules.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wagon stock books
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <stock registers>
wagon turntable
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wagon turntables
CL Track and track components
BT turntable
waist
The widest part of the body
of a railway or tramway vehicle.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: waists
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <bodywork areas>
waist panel
The panel immediately below
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:
waist panels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body panel
waist rail
A longitudinal vehicle body
structural member at mid height between floor and cant rail.
Warrant:
Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: waist rails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT side framing
waist rail moulding
The horizontal moulding
placed over the joint between the waist panel and the bottom quarter panel,
along the line of the waist 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:
waist rail mouldings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body moulding
Walchearts valve gear
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: Walchearts
valve gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear
walkway
A foot or horse path along
or across the tracks for the use of staff or haulage animals.
Warrant:
British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed),
The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979 p158.
Plural form:
walkways
CL Track and track components
BT <track areas by function>
NT attendant path
NT horse path
wall lamp
A lamp which is supported on
a bracket fixed to the wall of a building.
Warrant: Railway Terminology
Working Group
Plural form: wall lamps
CL Built works and components
BT <fixed lighting by form>
Walschaerts valve gear
A very widely adopted form
of steam locomotive valve gear in which movement is generated from both the
piston crosshead and a single eccentric or return crank, invented by Egide
Walschaerts.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: Walschaerts valve
gears
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear
Ward coupler
An obsolete mechanical
coupler used on some LUL engineers vehicles.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: Ward couplers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
warehouse
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Commercial Traffic, H F Sanderson, Vol.2 Freight, Chapman &
Hall Ltd, 1952
Plural form: warehouses
CL Built works and components
BT <freight transhipment structures>
warning board
A board exhibiting
stripe or bar markings to warn drivers they are approaching a distant
signal.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan
A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: warning boards
USE distant warning board
CL Control and communications
BT <fixed signal boards>
<warning devices>
Devices such as whistles,
horns, gongs, etc. carried on a locomotive or leading vehicle primarily to give
an audible warning of the approach of the train, although they may also be used
to communicate more sophisticated messages to signalmen, shunters, etc.
Plural form: <warning devices>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driving and control components>
NT horn (acoustic)
NT locomotive bell
NT whistle
NT whistle control
NT whistle isolating cock control
warning indicator
A warning sign to a driver
that he is approaching a permanent speed restriction ahead.
Warrant: The
History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of
the National Railway Museum
Plural form: warning indicators
CL Control and communications
BT permanent speed restriction sign
warning rattle
An audible device in which a
wooden baton strikes against a ratchet when swung round.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: warning rattles
CL Tools and equipment
BT lookouts equipment
warning sign
A wooden or metal sign
indicating a specific hazard or instruction.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural
form: warning signs
CL Control and communications
BT <non-specific control equipment>
warning signal
A signal used only in
specially authorised locations to indicate that a driver may move past a stop
signal at danger in conjunction with the 'warning arrangement' (rule 5).
Warrant: British Railway Signalling, G Kichenside & A Williams, Ian Allan,
1963 p21
Plural form: warning signals
CL Control and communications
BT subsidiary signal
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: warrants
USE travel warrant
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <permits>
washoff
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: washoffs
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
washout plug
A plug fitted in the sides
of a locomotive firebox to enable scale to be washed out.
Warrant:
Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co
Ltd, 1952
Plural form: washout plugs
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler component
waste product
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: waste products
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <consumables>
NT exhaust steam
NT spent fuel
water balance railway
A counterbalanced railway
where the weight of the descending load is supplemented by a tank of water that
is filled at the top of the incline and emptied at the bottom, thus allowing the
working of loads when the principle traffic flow is not consistently down
hill.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: water balance railways
CL Railway types
BT counterbalanced railway
water board railway
A permanent railway laid to
facilitate the operation of a reservoir and associated works.
Warrant:
Reservoir Railways of the Yorkshire Pennines, H D Bowtell, The Oakwood Press,
1979
Plural form: water board railways
CL Railway types
BT industrial railway
RT reservoir railway
<water collection components>
A vehicle component
concerned with the collection of water. Includes water scoops and associated
control equipment.
Plural form: water collection components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage and handling components>
NT water scoop
water column
A standpipe fitted with a
leather hose and connected to a water supply for filling locomotive water
tanks.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural
form: water columns
CL Built works and components
BT <motive power stabling and servicing structures>
water crane
A lineside appliance fed
from a water tank or cistern and comprising a vertical hollow pillar carrying a
horizontal revolving arm fitted with a flexible hose (or bag) for filling steam
locomotive water tanks, typically located at the forward end of a station
platform.
Warrant: Railway Appliances, John Wolf Barry, Longmans, Green and
Co, 1876 p224
Plural form: water cranes
CL Built works and components
BT <motive power stabling and servicing structures>
<water feed components>
A vehicle component
concerned with the supply of water to the boiler.
Plural form: water feed
components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage and handling components>
NT check valve
NT clack box
NT clack valve body
NT combined steam and delivery valve
NT feed pump
NT grease separator drip valve
NT injector
NT injector component
water gauge
A strong glass tube fitted
in a steam locomotive cab to show the level of the water in the boiler.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: water
gauges
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel and water controls and gauges>
water scoop
A device for picking up
water at speed from a trough laid between the rails, utilising the momentum of
the locomotive.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: water
scoops
UF scoop
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water collection components>
<water storage and handling components>
A vehicle component
concerned with the collection, storage and supply of water for locomotive
boilers, lavatories, catering facilities, etc.
Plural form: <water
storage and handling components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <consumables storage and handling components>
NT <water collection components>
NT <water feed components>
NT <water storage components>
<water storage components>
A vehicle component
concerned with the storage of water. Includes carriage water tanks.
Plural
form: water storage components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage and handling components>
NT balancing pipe
NT carriage water tank
NT filler
NT locomotive water tank
NT tank assembly
NT tender water tank assembly
NT water tank filler
NT water tank vent
water tank filler
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: water tank fillers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
water tank vent
A vent in the water tank of
a steam locomotive to allow the displacement of air during rapid filling or
emptying.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form:
water tank vents
UF vent (water tank)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
water tank wagon
A tank wagon for the
conveyance of water.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: water tank
wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for stores and consumables>
water tank (carriage component)
A
water tank provided on a carriage to supply water to lavatory facilities,
kitchens, etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: water tanks
(carriage components)
USE carriage water tank
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
water tank (locomotive component)
A
water tank provided on a locomotive or tender to supply water to the boiler.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: water tanks
(locomotive components)
USE locomotive water tank
UF tank (water - locomotive component)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
water tower
An elevated water storage
tank.
Warrant: UK Heritage Railways - Glossary & Technical Diagrams
Plural form: water towers
CL Built works and components
BT <motive power stabling and servicing structures>
water trough
A narrow and lengthy trough
placed between the rails from which water could be scooped up into the water
tanks of steam locomotives travelling at speed.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: water troughs
UF track pan
UF troughs
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
water tube
A tube fitted across the
firebox in an attempt to improve the circulation of water between the legs of
the firebox.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: water tubes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <heat exchange components>
wattmeter
A calibrated instrument for
measuring electric power in watts.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
wattmeters
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general test equipment>
wax thermostat
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wax thermostats
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
waybeam
A large cross section baulk
of timber used on some bridges, positioned under each rail longitudinally, to
act as a beam and as securing point for baseplates.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: waybeams
UF longitudinal timber
UF wheeltimber
CL Track and track components
BT <track bearers>
RT longitudinal sleeper
waybill
Scope note required.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: waybills
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
waybill holder
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: waybill holders
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
weatherboard
The screen around the back
of the firebox of steam locomtives originally forming the only weather
protection for the enginemen.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: weatherboards
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <bodywork areas>
wedge valve gear
A type of valve gear which
had two eccentrics on a two-cylinder locomotive instead of four. The single
eccentric for each cylinder was changed from forward to reverse by drawing a
wedge along a square section of the axle through sheaf to adjust its
offset.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural
form: wedge valve gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear
wedge (coupling component)
The
mechanical part of the wedgelock autocoupler which locks the adjacent tongues
when coupled.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: wedges (coupling
components)
USE autocoupler wedge
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling component
wedge (rail key)
A track component
that holds bullhead and similar rail securely in the rail chair.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: wedges (rail keys)
USE rail key
CL Track and track components
BT <rail fastenings>
wedgelock autocoupler
A type of centre coupling
which gives and instantaneous linkage between cars of all electrical and
mechanical connections.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form:
wedgelock autocouplers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
wedgelock emergency coupler
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wedgelock emergency couplers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
weedkilling train
Scope note required.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: weedkilling trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT service train
weekend ticket
A ticket valid for travel
only during the weekend period, offered at a discounted price to the regular
fare.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: weekend tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by discount, etc.>
weekly ticket
A ticket valid for a number
of journeys within one week.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
weekly tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by number of journeys>
weighbridge
A weighing machine with a
platform onto which a vehicle may be placed to be weighed.
Warrant:
Encyclopedia of Railways, O S Nock, 1977
Plural form: weighbridges
CL Built works and components
BT <freight transhipment structures>
weighing equipment
Specialist equipment used
for measuring the weight of goods and equipment.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: weighing equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT engineering workshop tools and equipment
NT locomotive weighing equipment
weighing machine van
A railway vehicle equipped
as a mobile workshop with tools and equipment for the testing and maintenance of
weighing machines on railway premises.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: weighing machine vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <laboratory, workshop and tool vehicles>
welded continuous rail
Rails welded together to
form a single rail length over 36m, or 55m in tunnels with a limited temperature
range.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: welded continuous
rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by treatment>
welded vee
Two pieces of rail, with
parts of the head and foot removed by machining, placed either side of a filler
plate so as to form a weld preparation.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster,
1999
Plural form: welded vees
CL Track and track components
BT crossing vee
well tank
A water tank slung between
the frames, often under the footplate, providing a useful low centre of gravity,
increasing stability on light or poorly laid track.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: well tanks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive water tank
well tank and tender locomotive
A locomotive carrying its
water containing tanks on its main frames plus a separate water/fuel tender.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: well tank and tender locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank and tender locomotive
well tank locomotive
A type of steam locomotive
in which the water is stored in a tank slung between the frames, often under the
footplate, providing a useful low centre of gravity, increasing stability on
light or poorly laid track.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: well tank locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank locomotive
well wagon
A bogie wagon with a dip in
the central section between the bogies which enables high loads to be carried
without fouling the loading gauge.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural
form: well wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
Welwyn control
In absolute block, prevents
the signalman from accepting a second train without the first having occupied
and cleared the home signal berth track circuit. Introduced following an
accident at Welwyn.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form:
Welwyn controls
CL Control and communications
BT <block system working>
RT emergency release
Welwyn release
A mechanically actuated
release mechanism used to bypass the Welwyn control..
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: Welwyn releases
CL Control and communications
BT <block system working>
westcode
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: westcodes
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
Westinghouse brake
A compressed air automatic
braking system invented by the US engineer George Westinghouse.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: westinghouse brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT automatic air brake
Westinghouse braked vehicle
A vehicle fitted with the
Westinghouse continuous air brake.
Literary warrant required.
Plural
form: Westinghouse braked vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT air braked vehicle
Wetli system locomotive
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Wonders of the World, C J Allen
Plural form: Wetli
systems
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rack locomotive
wheel
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: wheels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <wheel assemblies>
NT <wheels by form>
NT <wheels by function>
wheel and propeller wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated
to the carriage of large pulleys and sheaves, ship's propellers, etc. that could
not be accommodated within gauge on general merchandise wagons.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: wheel and propeller wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
<wheel assemblies>
Wheels and bearings and
their associated components.
Plural form: <wheel assemblies>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT running gear
NT axle
NT axlebox
NT axlebox component
NT journal (axle component)
NT motor and wheelset
NT wheel
NT wheel component
NT wheel set
NT wheel trim
wheel burned rail
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wheel burned rails
CL Track and track components
BT damaged rail
wheel component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wheel components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <wheel assemblies>
NT balance weight (locomotive component)
NT boss (wheel)
NT crank pin
NT crankpin nut
NT flange
NT tyre
wheel set
A pair of wheels mounted on
their axle.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wheel sets
UF wheelset
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <wheel assemblies>
NT radial axle
<wheel supports and guides>
Track components such as
plates and rails that directly support and/or guide the wheels of vehicles using
the track.
Plural form: <wheel supports and guides>
CL Track and track components
BT track component
NT plate rail
NT rail
wheel trim
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wheel trims
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <wheel assemblies>
wheel truing machine
A portable machine for
reprofiling rolling stock wheels.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages,
Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: wheel truing machines
CL Tools and equipment
BT machine tool
wheel turning lathe
A special lathe for turning
railway wheels and the metal tyres on railway wheels.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: wheel turning lathes
UF railway wheel lathe
CL Tools and equipment
BT lathe
wheeled barrow
A two-wheeled handcart.
Warrant: Oxford English Dictionary
Plural form: wheeled barrows
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general tools and equipment>
<wheels by form>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <wheels by form>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT wheel
NT disc wheel
NT spoked wheel
<wheels by function>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <wheels by functions>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT wheel
NT locomotive driving wheel
wheelset
A pair of wheels mounted on
their axle. Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan
A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: wheelsets
USE wheel set
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <wheel assemblies>
wheelskate
A device used in the case of
a locomotive or vehicle having a wheel which is seized and will not rotate
freely, to enable it to be moved clear of a running line.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: wheelskates
CL Tools and equipment
BT breakdown equipment
wheelslide protection system
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wheelslide protection systems
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
wheeltimber
A large cross section
baulk of timber used on some bridges, positioned under each rail longitudinally,
to act as a beam and as securing point for baseplates.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: wheeltimbers
USE waybeam
CL Track and track components
BT <track bearers>
wheel-tappers hammer
A long handled, light hammer
used by carriage and wagon examiners for detecting possible cracked wheels by
the sound they make when struck.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
wheel-tappers hammers
CL Tools and equipment
BT <carriage and wagon tools and equipment>
whistle
An audible warning
device.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form:
whistles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <warning devices>
NT locomotive steam whistle
NT locomotive whistle
NT steam whistle
RT boiler fitting
whistle board
A lineside board which
indicates to train drivers where they are required to sound a warning.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: whistle boards
CL Built works and components
BT <signs and markers>
whistle control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: whistle controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <warning devices>
whistle isolating cock control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: whistle isolating cock controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <warning devices>
wicket
A small gate sometimes
provided for pedestrians at a level crossing.
Warrant: Railtrack London &
North Eastern, A Glossary of Railway Terms, October 1998
Plural form:
wickets
USE wicket gate (level crossing)
CL Control and communications
BT level crossing gate
wicket gate (level crossing)
A small gate sometimes
provided for pedestrians at a level crossing.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon
Buster, 1999
Plural form: wicket gates (level crossing)
UF wicket
CL Control and communications
BT level crossing gate
window component (building)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: window components (building)
CL Built works and components
BT <built work components by type>
window component (vehicle)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: window components (vehicle)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <natural lighting components>
NT carriage window finger plate
NT carriage window glass
NT droplight component
NT quarter light pillar
window strap
A heavy leather strap used
to lower, raise and secure a droplight.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form:
window straps
UF glass string
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT droplight component
<wire transmission>
Equipment that transmits
control from the control point to the equipment to be actuated by means of
wires. Typically used for actuating signals in manual signalling installations.
Plural form: <wire transmission>
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical transmission>
NT pulley guide
NT pulley wheel (signalling)
NT signal pulley
NT signal wire bell crank
NT signal wire tensioner
wiring loom
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wiring looms
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <secondary electrical circuitry>
wood burning locomotive
A steam locomotive which
burns wood as a power source (generally in a larger firebox than comparable coal
burning machines).
Warrant: A History of the American Locomotive, John H
White, Dover Publications Inc, 1979
Plural form: wood burning
locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by fuel>
wood key
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wood keys
UF oak block (rail fastening)
UF oak key
CL Track and track components
BT rail key
wooden rail
Early rail made of wood.
Warrant: Jim Rees, Beamish North of England Open Air Museum
Plural form:
wooden rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by material>
NT wooden rail with running strip
wooden rail with running strip
Wooden rail with an extra
wearing face applied to the top of the rail, regularly replaced when worn.
Warrant: Jim Rees, Beamish North of England Open Air Museum
Plural form:
wooden rails with running strips
CL Track and track components
BT wooden rail
wooden railway
Scope note required.
Warrant: Early Wooden Railways, M J T Lewis, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970
Plural form: wooden railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways by form>
NT Prossers wooden railway
wooden sleeper
A sleeper or track tie made
from timber, used to support two running rails at a fixed gauge.
Warrant:
British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed, The
Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979 p48
Plural form: wooden
sleepers
CL Track and track components
BT <sleepers by material>
NT hardwood sleeper
NT hardwood transverse sleeper
NT softwood sleeper
NT softwood transverse sleeper
NT timber block sleeper
working timetable
The working document
according to which passenger and freight trains are operated on a railway.
Warrant: The Express Train and Other Railway Studies, J Simmons, David St John
Thomas Publisher, 1994
Plural form: working timetables
CL Control and communications
BT <timetabling>
RT passenger timetable
workmans ticket
A ticket issued at a
discounted fare for travel on workmans trains.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: workmans tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type or age of traveller>
workmans train
A special train provided for
workers travelling daily to and from work at a reduced fare.
Warrant: The
Victorian Railway, J Simmons, Thames & Hudson, 1990
Plural form:
workmans trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger train
works building
A building associated with a
railway factory or works.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: works buildings
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair structures>
works plate
A cast metal plate
identifying the vehicle date and location of manufacture of the vehicle to which
it affixed.
Warrant: British Locomotive Builders' Plates, K Buckle & D
Love, Midland Publishing Ltd, 1994
Plural form: works plates
UF builders plate
UF makers plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <builders identity plates>
NT carriage works plate
NT locomotive works plate
works railway
An internal railway system
serving a railway works.
Warrant: An Illustrated History of British
Railways' Workshops, E Larkin, Oxford Publishing Company, 1992
Plural form:
works railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways supporting other transport systems>
RT factory railway
workshop document
n/r.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: workshop documents
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway manufacturing and maintenance equipment>
NT repair book
workshop equipment
All the hand and machine
tools used in railway workshops.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form:
workshop equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway manufacturing and maintenance equipment>
NT engineering workshop tools and equipment
NT paintshop tools and equipment
workshop van
A railway vehicle equipped
as a mobile workshop.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: workshop
vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <laboratory, workshop and tool vehicles>
worm wheel
Used as model locomotive
gear drive.
Warrant: Electric Locomotives and Railways, H Greenly, no date
p205
Plural form: worm wheels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
worsted oil trimming
Strands of worsted used as a
wick to maintain constant lubrication in locomotives and rolling stock.
Warrant: Locomotives, their construction, maintenance and operation, A Morton
Bell, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1946
Plural form: worsted oil trimmings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT oil trimming
wrist band
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wrist bands
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
wrong line order form
A form authorising the
movement of a train in the wrong direction during emergencies.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: wrong line order forms
CL Control and communications
BT <emergency working forms and equipment>
wrought iron fish bellied rail
An early form of rail made
from wrought iron with convex under-section to add strength.
Warrant: Modern
British Permanent Way, C J Allen, The Railway News, 1915
Plural form:
wrought iron fish bellied rails
CL Track and track components
BT fish bellied rail
RT wrought iron rail
wrought iron rail
Rail made from wrought
iron.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wrought iron rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by material>
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