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[Contents]
cab
The driver's compartment of a locomotive or railcar, etc.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: cabs
UF cab assembly
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <areas within vehicle body>
NT High Speed Train cab
NT locomotive cab
NT operating cab
RT cab component
cab assembly
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab assemblies
USE cab
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <bodywork areas>
cab communicating unit
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab communicating units
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driver/guard communication systems>
cab component
A component part of the driving cab assembly.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: cab components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <specific body components>
NT cab side
NT drivers windscreen
NT fall plate
NT pneumatic wiper
NT spectacle plate (cab component)
NT storm sheet
RT cab
cab control
A system of operating an electric model railway whereby the operator
controls the train as if he were in the driver's cab.
Warrant: Railway
Modeller ""Shows You How"" Booklet No 4, Peco Publications,
1965
Plural form: cab controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driving and control components>
cab display unit
The unit provided in a locomotive or multiple unit cab which interfaces
with the radio electronic token block system
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab display units
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <ancillary gauges and instrumentation>
cab door interlock
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab door interlocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
cab heating
The heating system provided in the driving cab of diesel and electric
locomotives, etc.
Warrant: The Diesel Locomotive, R L Aston, 1957
Plural form: cab heating
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
RT cab component
cab hinged door
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab hinged doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door
cab indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <ancillary gauges and instrumentation>
cab lighting
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab lighting
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <artificial lighting components>
RT cab component
cab side
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: cab sides
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT cab component
cab signal
A signal installed in the driving cab of the train repeating or instead of
lineside signals.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: cab signals
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <automatic train control indicators>
cab sliding door
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab sliding doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door
cab to cab control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab to cab controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driver/guard communication systems>
cab to cab indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab to cab indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driver/guard communication systems>
cab to cab telephone
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cab to cab telephones
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driver/guard communication systems>
cable bracket (control cables)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cable brackets (control cables)
CL Control and communications
BT <electrical transmission>
cable bracket (traction supply)
A bracket fixed to a post or other structure supporting overhead electric
cables.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: cable brackets (traction supply)
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply structures>
cable capstan
A revolving cylinder around which the cable is wound in cable haulage
systems.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: cable capstans
CL Built works and components
BT <cable haulage structures and equipment>
cable drum carrier
A wagon adapted to carry cable drums in such a way that they can be
unrolled from the wagon during overhead electrical installation, repair or
renewal.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cable drum carriers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for stores and consumables>
NT overhead line maintenance cable drum carrier
NT S&T cable drum carrier
cable haulage engine
An engine used to power a haulage system where trains are drawn along by a
rope, wire or chain cable.
Warrant: Cable or Rope Traction, J Bucknall
Smith, 1887
Plural form: cable haulage engines
UF beam engine (haulage)
CL Built works and components
BT <cable haulage structures and equipment>
RT cable haulage railway
cable haulage engine house
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cable haulage engine houses
UF engine house (stationary haulage)
CL Built works and components
BT <cable haulage structures and equipment>
cable haulage equipment
The equipment used to operate a haulage system where trains are drawn along
by a rope, wire or chain cable, power being derived from a stationary engine or
gravity acting via a counterbalanced load.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cable haulage equipment
CL Built works and components
BT <cable haulage structures and equipment>
RT cable haulage railway
cable haulage railway
A railway operated by wire, rope or chain powered by a stationary engine.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cable haulage railways
CL Railway types
BT <stationary traction source>
NT counterbalanced railway
NT rope haulage railway
<cable haulage structures and equipment>
For cable rollers, pulleys, etc. forming part of the track see Track and
track components.
Plural form: <cable haulage structures and equipment>
CL Built works and components
BT <stationary propulsion structures and equipment>
NT cable capstan
NT cable haulage engine
NT cable haulage engine house
NT cable haulage equipment
NT cable incline head gear
NT haulage cable
NT shunting capstan
<cable haulage systems>
A haulage system where trains are drawn along by a rope, wire or chain
cable, power being derived from a stationary engine or gravity acting via a
counterbalanced load.
Plural form: <cable haulage systems>
CL Built works and components
BT <stationary propulsion systems>
RT cable haulage railway
cable haulage track component
Equipment placed on or adjacent to the track to guide train haulage cables.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cable haulage track components
CL Track and track components
BT <stationary propulsion track components>
NT pulley (rope haulage)
cable incline head gear
The operating equipment at the top of a cable incline.
Warrant:
Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: cable incline head gears
CL Built works and components
BT <cable haulage structures and equipment>
cable post
A post to support the overhead live cable on an electrified railway.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cable posts
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply structures>
cable tie
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cable ties
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply components>
caboose
US term for the last vehicle on a train, accommodating the train crew and
providing a vantage point for inspection of the moving train.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: cabooses
USE brake van
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <braking vehicles>
cabside identification plate
Use 'cabside number plate' if appropriate. For any other kind of cabside
plate, use the appropriate term (e.g. 'works plate' for a cabside works plate,
'locomotive plaque' for a commemorative paque affixed to the side of the cab,
etc.).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cabside identification plates
USE cabside number plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive number plate
cabside number plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cabside number plates
UF cabside identification plate
UF cabside numberplate
UF locomotive cabside plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive number plate
cabside numberplate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cabside numberplates
USE cabside number plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive number plate
cabside plaque
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cabside plaques
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <commemorative vehicle plaques, etc.>
cabside plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cabside plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive number plate
calf barrow
A two-wheeled handcart designed specifically for transporting calves.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: calf barrows
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station trolleys and barrows>
calf van
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of calves.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: calf vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT cattle wagon
calling-on indicator
An indicator situated at both ends of a train.
Warrant: LUL Jargon
Buster
Plural form: calling-on indicators
CL Control and communications
BT section indicator
calling-on signal
A signal used to indicate that a driver may move past a stop signal at
danger to a predetermined location, or the adjacent signalbox from where he
would receive further instruction.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: calling-on signals
CL Control and communications
BT subsidiary signal
camping coach
A railway coach adapted as holiday accommodation and placed in sidings at
suitable locations.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: camping coaches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load or function>
canal feeder railway
A railway operated by a canal company to bring freight to a canal wharf or
transhipment basin.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: canal feeder railways
CL Railway types
BT canal railway
canal railway
A railway built to serve the transhipment and maintenance needs of a canal
system (e.g. Manchester Ship Canal Railway).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: canal railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways supporting other transport systems>
NT canal feeder railway
cancelling indicator (AWS)
A lineside indicator board provided to advise drivers that an associated
AWS indication does not apply in the direction of travel.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: cancelling indicators (AWS)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <automatic train control indicators>
cannon box
A sleeve used to mount the traction motor on its axle in electric power
bogies.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B
Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: cannon boxes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <electric motor components>
cant gauge
A gauge for measuring the amount by which one rail is higher than the
other.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cant gauges
USE superelevation gauge
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
cant rail moulding
The horizontal moulding placed over the joint between the top quarter panel
and cant 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: cant rail mouldings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body moulding
cantilever
A type of overhead line support.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster,
1999
Plural form: cantilevers
CL Track and track components
BT overhead line equipment
cantrail
A longitudinal supporting member for a carriage roof.
Warrant:
Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co
Ltd, 1952
Plural form: cantrails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof component
Caprotti valve gear
A cam operated valve control gear invented in 1921 by Arturo Caprotti.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: Caprotti valve gears
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear
capuchon
This is the French (general) term for a cowl or hood. In British locomotive
parlance it was simply a lip on the leading edge of the chimney top, sometimes
also known as a 'windjabber'. It was mainly aesthetic, its absence on an engine
normally fitted could change its entire appearance, as could chimney profile in
general.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: capuchons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive chimney
car card
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: car cards
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
car door
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: car doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door
car stop plate
A platform sign to indicate to the driver of a multiple unit train the
position at which the front of the train should stop and by which the full
length of the train would be at the platform.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: car stop plates
CL Built works and components
BT <signs and markers>
car wire
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: car wires
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
car (railway vehicle)
A term for any passenger or freight rail vehicle but in the UK used
particularly for underground vehicles. Also used where a US influence is
present, e.g. Pullman Car.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: cars (railway vehicles)
USE passenger carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by generic name>
carbody
A passenger vehicle excluding its bogies.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: carbodies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body
cardan shaft
A drive shaft with flexible couplings provided between a motor and an axle
to allow for the movements of the axle relative to the motor.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: cardan shafts
UF carden shaft
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
carden shaft
Scope note required.
Warrant: Electric Locomotives and Railways, H
Greenly, no date p239
Plural form: carden shafts
USE cardan shaft
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
carline
A transverse member supporting the roof of a wagon or carriage.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: carlines
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof component
carriage
A railway vehicle for carrying passengers.
Warrant: Oxford English
Dictionary
Plural form: carriages
USE railway carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by generic name>
<carriage and wagon tools and equipment>
Tools and equipment used for building, maintaining and operating railway
carriages and wagons.
Plural form: <carriage and wagon tools and equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway operating tools and equipment>
NT gunpowder van key
NT lamp key
NT tyre gauge
NT wheel-tappers hammer
carriage and wagon works
A factory for the production and maintenance of railway carraiges and
wagons.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: carriage and wagon works
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair complexes>
carriage board
A long wooden board attached to the cantrail of a passenger carriage,
usually inscribed with the destination of the train.
Warrant: Phil Atkins,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: carriage boards
USE carriage destination board
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <destination, etc. indicating equipment>
carriage component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <components by type of vehicle>
carriage destination board
A long wooden board attached to the cantrail of a passenger carriage,
usually inscribed with the destination of the train.
Warrant: LNER
Carriages, M Harris, David St John Thomas, 1994
Plural form: carriage destination boards
UF carriage board
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <destination, etc. indicating equipment>
carriage destination label
A label, usually of paper, stuck to the inside of a carriage window to
indicate the destination and stopping places of that carriage.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: carriage destination labels
UF carriage label
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <destination, etc. indicating labels>
RT carriage destination board
RT carriage reservation label
carriage door handle
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage door handles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door handle
carriage door handle and lock
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage door handle and locks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
carriage door handle backplate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage door handle backplates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
carriage door loop handle
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage door loop handles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
carriage door slam lock mechanism
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage door slam lock mechanisms
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
carriage examiners hut
A lineside hut, usually situated in a yard or siding, for the use of a
carriage examiner.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: carriage examiners huts
CL Built works and components
BT <vehicle stabling and servicing structures>
carriage finishing panel
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage finishing panels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body panel
carriage floor board
A board forming part of the carriage floor.
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: carriage floor boards
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT floor component
carriage gas key
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage gas keys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
carriage key
A universal key used for locking and unlocking doors of railway carriages.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: carriage keys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
carriage label
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage labels
USE carriage destination label
PLUS carriage reservation label
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <destination, etc. indicating labels>
carriage lamp
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage lamps
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <artificial lighting components>
NT carriage roof lamp
carriage maintenance gauge (buckeye)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage maintenance gauges (buckeye)
CL Tools and equipment
BT <rolling stock testing equipment and records>
carriage number plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage number plates
UF carriage plate
UF coach solebar plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT number plate
carriage plaque
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage plaques
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <commemorative vehicle plaques, etc.>
carriage plate
Use 'carriage number plate' if appropriate. For any other kind of carriage
plate, use the appropriate term (e.g. 'works plate' for a carriage works plate,
'dimensions plate' for a plate affixed to the end of the carriage giving
principal dimensions, etc.).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage plates
USE carriage number plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT number plate
carriage repair shop
A workshop which is used for the maintenance and repair of railway
carriages.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: carriage repair shops
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair structures>
carriage reservation label
A label, usually of paper, stuck to the inside of a carriage window to
indicate that the carriage has been reserved for a particular party of
travellers.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage reservation labels
UF carriage label
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT reservation label
RT carriage destination label
carriage roof board
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage roof boards
UF coach roofboard
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle roof board
carriage roof lamp
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage roof lamps
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT carriage lamp
carriage roof lamp protector
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage roof lamp protectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <artificial lighting components>
carriage section
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage sections
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <bodywork areas>
carriage shed
A depot for stabling, servicing and maintaining railway carriages.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: carriage sheds
CL Built works and components
BT <vehicle stabling and servicing structures>
NT coach house
carriage side handle
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage side handles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <foot and hand holds>
carriage siding
A siding where carriages are stabled.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage sidings
CL Track and track components
BT siding
carriage truck
A flat open wagon designed to convey private horse drawn carriages or motor
cars.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan
A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: carriage trucks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <road vehicle carrying stock>
NT covered carriage truck
NT open carriage truck
carriage ventilator
A device mounted in the roof or walls of a railway vehicle to allow passage
of air to the interior.
Warrant: British Railways Mark 1 Coaches, K Parkin,
(2nd Ed) Pendragon Books, 1991
Plural form: carriage ventilators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT ventilator
carriage warming pressure gauge
A gauge in the cab indicating the pressure in the train heating pipe.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage warming pressure gauges
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
RT <fuel and water controls and gauges>
RT <driving and control components>
carriage warming stop cock
A cock admitting steam from the manifold to the train heating pipe.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage warming stop cocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
RT <steam transmission components>
RT <driving and control components>
carriage warming valve
A reducing valve controlling the pressure in the train heating pipe.
Warrant: Handbook for Railway Steam Locomotive Enginemen, British Transport
Commission, 1957 p70
Plural form: carriage warming valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
RT <steam transmission components>
RT <driving and control components>
carriage water tank
A water tank provided on a carriage to supply water to lavatory facilities,
kitchens, etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage water tanks
UF water tank (carriage component)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
carriage window finger plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage window finger plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT window component (vehicle)
carriage window glass
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage window glasses
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT window component (vehicle)
carriage window label
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage window labels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <destination, etc. indicating equipment>
carriage works plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: carriage works plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT works plate
case wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of large packing cases that
would be out of gauge if placed on a general merchendise wagon.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: case wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
NT deep case wagon
NT flat case wagon
cash bag
A bag of leather, cloth, paper or plastic used for transporting cash.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cash bags
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
cask wagon
A vehicle adapted specifically for the conveyance of beer casks.
Warrant: A Pictorial Record of LNER Wagons, P Tatlow, Oxford Publishing Company,
1976 p76
Plural form: cask wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <beer, etc. carrying vehicles>
casseyway
An archaic term used in Scotland to describe a waggon way or tramway. The
term was derived from 'causeway'.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: casseyways
USE tramway
CL Railway types
BT <railways by form>
cast iron fish bellied rail
An early form of cast iron rail with concave under-section to add strength.
Warrant: Early Limestone Railways, John van Laun, The Newcomen Society, 2001
Plural form: cast iron fish bellied rails
CL Track and track components
BT fish bellied rail
RT cast iron rail
cast iron rail
Rail made from cast iron.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cast iron rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by material>
cast iron sleeper
A support for the rails made from cast iron placed between the rails and
the ballast.
Warrant: Early Limestone Railways, John van Laun, The Newcomen
Society, 2001
Plural form: cast iron sleepers
CL Track and track components
BT <sleepers by material>
catch pit
The point in the cess where the drains cross and access is provided for
rodding, maintenance etc.
Warrant: Gordon Reed, Permanent Way Institution
Plural form: catch pits
CL Track and track components
BT <track areas by function>
catch points
A pair of sprung trailing points to derail any train running back without
authority or out of control, usually located on gradients steeper than 1 in 260.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: catch points
CL Track and track components
BT safety points
catch-handle locking lever frame
A lever frame where the interlocking is actuated by the movement of the
catch handle rather than by the lever itself.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: catch-handle locking lever frames
CL Control and communications
BT interlocking frame
catenary
Overhead wires under tension which support the contact wire.
Warrant:
Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: catenaries
CL Track and track components
BT overhead line equipment
catering staff equipment
Tools and equipment used in the production and serving of refreshments on
railway stations and on trains.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: catering staff equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
cats eye
Slang for a position light shunting or subsidiary signal.
Warrant:
Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: cats eyes
USE position light signal
CL Control and communications
BT <colour light signals by construction>
cattle dock
A fenced and gated platform provided in goods yards to facilitate the
transhipment of livestock.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cattle docks
CL Built works and components
BT platform
cattle van
A special railway wagon for the transportation of livestock.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: cattle vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <livestock carrying vehicles>
cattle wagon
A railway vehicle used for transporting cattle, the top half of which was
fitted with bars rather than boarding to allow the cattle to breathe.
Warrant: British Railways Wagons, the first half million, D P Rowland, David &
Charles, 1985
Plural form: cattle wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <livestock carrying vehicles>
NT calf van
NT pedigree cattle wagon
cattle-cum-trespass deter guard
A device provided adjacent to the carriageway at a level crossing or at the
end of platform ramps to deter animals and/or pedestrians from straying on to
the railway.
Warrant: Railtrack Group Standard
Plural form: cattle-cum-trespass deter guards
USE cattle-cum-trespass guard
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
RT level crossing
cattle-cum-trespass guard
A device provided adjacent to the carriageway at a level crossing or at the
end of platform ramps to deter animals and/or pedestrians from straying on to
the railway.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling
in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: cattle-cum-trespass guards
UF cattle-cum-trespass deter guard
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
causeway
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: causeways
CL Built works and components
BT embankment
center pivot
The central post round which a turntable rotates.
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: center pivots
CL Unattributed
BT <unattributed>
centering device
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: centering devices
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
<central control>
Control levers and switches, visual and audible displays and other human
interfaces situated at a central control point away from the equipment they
actuate or are actuated by.
Plural form: <central control>
CL Control and communications
BT <point and signal actuation>
NT auto announcer indicator
NT control panel
NT emergency release
NT integrated electronic control centre
NT integrated electronic control centre component
NT lever frame
NT lever frame component
NT operators control unit
NT programme machine
NT reminder appliance
NT train number indicator
NT train register
NT <control centres by function>
NT <control displays and indicators>
centre balance signal
A semaphore signal pivoted at its centre designed to return to danger by
its distribution of weight.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: centre balance signals
CL Control and communications
BT semaphore signal
NT centre balance stop signal
centre balance stop signal
A signal arm incorporating a central pivot point.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: centre balance stop signals
CL Control and communications
BT centre balance signal
centre siding
A track laid between two running lines for the purpose of reversing trains,
usually beyond a station, to allow a train to reverse direction without crossing
a track carrying through trains.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages,
Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: centre sidings
CL Track and track components
BT <shunting roads>
RT siding
<cereal carrying vehicles>
Railway vehicles dedicated to the carriage of cereals.
Plural form: <cereal carrying vehicles>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <foodstuff carrying vehicles>
NT bulk grain wagon
<ceremonial tools and equipment>
Tools and equipment used in or produced by any ceremony connected with a
railway, such as cutting the first sod, opening, anniversaries, closure, etc.
Plural form: <ceremonial tools and equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
NT <first sod cutting tools and equipment>
cess
The area either side of the railway immediately off the ballast shoulder.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: cesses
CL Track and track components
BT drainage
chain drag
A device by which a hook attached to a heavy chain is arranged to catch the
axle of a moving wagon and so bring it to a stand. First used at Edge Hill (L.&N.W.R.).
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth &
J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922
Plural form: chain drags
CL Track and track components
BT <vehicle stopping sub-assemblies>
chain driven locomotive
A locomotive where the driving wheels are driven by a chain instead of
coupling rods. An early example was Stephenson's Killingworth locomotive.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: chain driven locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT mechanical transmission locomotive
chain (load securing)
A chain securing long or bulky loads on a bolster or special wagon. Each
end has a hook to attach on eyes on the wagon side and the chain is tightened
with a screw link.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: chains (load securing)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <load support and securing components>
chair fastening
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: chair fastenings
CL Track and track components
BT <rail support fastenings>
NT chair ferrule
NT chair spike
chair ferrule
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: chair ferrules
UF ferrule
CL Track and track components
BT chair fastening
chair spike
A heavy nail which holds a chair to a sleeper.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: chair spikes
UF spike (chair fastening)
CL Track and track components
BT chair fastening
chair (rail support)
A metal casting which retains bullhead rail on wooden sleepers.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: chairs (rail support)
USE rail chair
CL Track and track components
BT <rail supports>
chaldron wagon
An early two-axle hopper type coal wagon.
Warrant: Private Owner
Wagons of the North East, Vol.1 The Chaldrons, J A Elliott, Chilton Iron Works,
1994
Plural form: chaldron wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coal hopper wagon
chalk quarry railway
An industrial railway conveying chalk out of chalk quarries.
Warrant:
John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: chalk quarry railways
CL Railway types
BT quarry railway
changeover system
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: changeover systems
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
charging outlet
A shoe supply for recharging the batteries of stabled carriages.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: charging outlets
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply components>
charter train
A special passenger train hired (chartered) to a party or organisation for
a special excursion.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: charter trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by instigation/scheduling>
NT chartered excursion train
NT special train
chartered excursion train
An excursion train chartered by an individual or organisation rather than
being run at the instigation of the railway's commercial department.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: chartered excursion trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT charter train
RT excursion train
chassis
A complete frame and wheel assembly.
Warrant: Building Model
Locomotives - Model Railway News Supplement - 1938 (Rev Beale)
Plural form: chassis
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT running gear
cheap day return ticket
A ticket valid for an outward and return journey on the same day, offered
at a discounted price to the regular fare.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cheap day return tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by discount, etc.>
check chair
A chair designed to support both a running rail and a check rail.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler
(Ed, The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979 p59
Plural form: check chairs
CL Track and track components
BT rail chair
NT combined chair and baseplate
NT crossing check chair
check rail
An additional rail placed inside and parallel to running rails to guide
wheel flanges at road and rail crossings, viaducts, bridges and curves to ensure
that the wheels stay on the rail.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: check rails
UF guard rail
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by function>
check valve
A non return valve attached to the boiler barrel or firebox of a steam
locomotive to allow feed water to enter the boiler whilst stopping the boiler
contents from discharging.
Warrant: Steam Locomotion, E C Poultney & C
R H Simpson, Caxton Publishing Company, 1951
Plural form: check valves
UF clack
UF clack valve
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water feed components>
cheese van
A van specifically designated for the carriage of cheese.
Warrant:
Wagons on the LNER - North British, John Hooper, Irwell Press, 1991 p17
Plural form: cheese vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <milk and dairy product carrying vehicles>
child snip ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: child snip tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by print features>
RT child ticket
child ticket
A ticket permitting a child to travel at a lower fare than that charged for
an adult passenger.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: child tickets
UF childs privilege return ticket
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type or age of traveller>
childs privilege return ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: childs privilege return tickets
USE child ticket
PLUS privilege ticket
PLUS return ticket
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <examples of factored ticket types>
chimney
The often aesthetically styled casting from which the exhaust of a steam
locomotive emerges.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: chimneys
USE locomotive chimney
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT smokebox component
china clay wagon
A special vehicle dedicated to the conveyance of china clay.
Warrant:
An Illustrated History of West Country China Clay Trains, John Vaughan, Oxford
Publishing Company, 1999
Plural form: china clay wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mineral carrying vehicles>
chock
A wedge-shaped block of wood used under a wheel to stop the vehicle from
rolling away.
Warrant: Oxford English Dictionary
Plural form: chocks
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
chopper control
An electric traction control which eliminates the need for power resistors
by causing the voltage to the traction motors to be switched on and off
(chopped) very rapidly during acceleration.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web
Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: chopper controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <traction current transmission components>
chopper coupling
A combined centre buffer and coupling, used mainly on narrow gauge
railways.
Warrant: The Locomotive of Today, Locomotive Publishing Company,
1927 Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: chopper couplings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
cinder strip
A strip of angle iron fitted to the roof of a locomotive cab to reduce the
influx of ash from the chimney when passing under a bridge or entering a tunnel.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: cinder strips
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof component
cinema coach
A passenger vehicle in which films are shown, as employed by the LNER in
the 1930s.
Warrant: Departmental Coaching Stock, Roger Butcher & Peter
Fox, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 3rd edition, 1987
Plural form: cinema coaches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <exhibition vehicles, etc.>
circuit breaker
An automatic switch for making and breaking an electrical circuit under
normal or fault conditions.
Warrant: Encyclopedia of Railways, O S Nock,
1977
Plural form: circuit breakers
CL Control and communications
BT <non-specific control equipment>
civil engineering
The design and maintenance of works of public utility, such as roads,
bridges, railways etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: civil engineering
USE <route complexes>
CL Built works and components
BT <complexes>
civil engineering equipment
Tools and equipment used in the construction of railway buildings,
structures and track.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction
and Maintenance, G H Cope (Ed), The Permanent Way Institution, 6th Edition, 1993
Plural form: civil engineering equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT <permanent way tools and equipment>
NT bridge spanner
NT tunnelling machine
NT tunnelling shield
clack
A non return valve attached to the boiler barrel or firebox of a steam
locomotive to allow feed water to enter the boiler whilst stopping the boiler
contents from discharging.
Warrant: Steam Locomotion, E C Poultney & C
R H Simpson, Caxton Publishing Company, 1951
Plural form: clacks
USE check valve
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water feed components>
clack box
A box containing a non-return valve located outside a locomotive boiler at
the point where the feedwater enters.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their
Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: clack boxes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water feed components>
clack valve
A non return valve attached to the boiler barrel or firebox of a steam
locomotive to allow feed water to enter the boiler whilst stopping the boiler
contents from discharging.
Warrant: Steam Locomotion, E C Poultney & C
R H Simpson, Caxton Publishing Company, 1951 Warrant: Great Western Railway
Drawing Registers
Plural form: clack valves
USE check valve
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water feed components>
clack valve body
The housing in which the clack valve sits.
Warrant: The Locomotive of
Today, Locomotive Publishing Company, 1927
Plural form: clack valve bodies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water feed components>
clamp lock
A point operating mechanism which locks the points by directly clamping the
closed switch rail to the stock rail.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster,
1999
Plural form: clamp locks
CL Control and communications
BT <point locking equipment>
clamp (point)
A device used to secure the closed switch of a pair of points to the stock
rail.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: clamps (point)
CL Control and communications
BT <point locking equipment>
clamplock heater
A cartridge type heater fitted in the clamplock mechanism operating the
points blades.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: clamplock heaters
CL Control and communications
BT <point locking equipment>
clasp brake
A brake where the wheel is equipped with a block on each side of the wheel,
as opposed to only one side.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: clasp brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tread brake
clearance bar
A bar fixed on the track at junctions or platforms, interlocked to signals,
which cannot be cleared until the bar is lifted. The bar cannot be raised when a
vehicle is present.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: clearance bars
USE fouling bar
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical train detection, etc.>
clearance path extender
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: clearance path extenders
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
clearance test train
A train operated for the purpose of testing bridge deflection under load,
etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: clearance test trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT test train
clearing house
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: clearing houses
CL Built works and components
BT goods shed
clerestory
A raised longitudinal central section of a coach roof fitted with
ventilators and deck lights, intended to give extra daylight and ventilation.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: clerestories
UF deck roof
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle body subassemblies>
clerestory carriage
A passenger vehicle incorporating a raised central roof portion in order to
enhance headroom, lighting and ventilation.
Warrant: Midland Carriages - An
Illustrated Review, D Jenkinson & R J Essery, Oxford Publishing Company,
1984
Plural form: clerestory carriages
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT clerestory stock
clerestory stock
Carriages incorporating a raised central roof portion in order to enhance
headroom, lighting and ventilation.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: clerestory stock
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by design feature>
NT clerestory carriage
climber for climbing telegraph poles
A device with metal spikes, strapped to the leg and used to grip into wood
for climbing telegraph poles.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: climbers for climbing telegraph poles
CL Tools and equipment
BT <signal and telegraph maintenance equipment>
clinker
Solid matter produced by a coal burning fire, especially under poor
combustion conditions or with poor quality fuel.
Warrant: Lexique General
de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: clinker
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT spent fuel
clip profile
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: clip profiles
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
clip (points)
A device used to secure the closed switch of a pair of points to the stock
rail.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: clips (points)
USE points clip
CL Control and communications
BT <point locking equipment>
clip (rail)
A spring clip used to hold flat bottomed rail to the baseplates.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: clips (rail)
USE rail clip (track fastening)
CL Control and communications
BT <point locking equipment>
cloakroom ticket
A ticket issued upon temporary deposit of an article of luggage or other
small item with the railway authorities.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: cloakroom tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT non-travel ticket
clock card
A stiff card document inserted into and stamped by a time clock on
commencement and termination of duties. Allowing worked time to be calculated
for payment purposes.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: clock cards
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll documentation>
RT time clock
clocking-in 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: clocking-in clocks
USE time clock
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <employee timekeeping hardware>
clockwork locomotive
Locomotive propelled by a clockwork mechanism. Used for model railways.
Warrant: Hornby Railways Ltd
Plural form: clockwork locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by power source>
close doors indicator
An indication that station work is complete and power operated doors on
trains may be safely closed.
Warrant: The History & Development of
Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: close doors indicators
CL Control and communications
BT <signals from platform staff to driver/guard>
closed vehicle
A roofed railway vehicle.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: closed vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by form>
NT powder wagon
NT tank wagon
closing switch
A switch located in a signal box by means of which the signalling control
circuit to the signal boxes on either side may be connected together enabling
the signalbox in which the switch has been so operated to close if required.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: closing switches
USE block switch
CL Control and communications
BT <block system working>
closing-up signal
A signal that is provided to optimise headways and/or to provide earlier
clearance of junctions on the approach to stations.
Warrant: The History &
Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National
Railway Museum
Plural form: closing-up signals
CL Control and communications
BT running signal
closure rail
A rail in junctionwork fitted between switch and crossing assemblies.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction
and Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed), The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition,
1979 p82
Plural form: closure rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by installation>
RT switch (track sub-assembly)
RT crossing (track sub-assembly)
RT turnout
club car
A special car for men, equipped for serving alcoholic drinks and light
refreshments.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: club cars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by function>
clutch profile
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: clutch profiles
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
coach
A passenger carrying railway vehicle.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: coaches
USE railway carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by generic name>
coach body
The basic body section of a vehicle without internal fittings.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: coach bodies
UF body (coach)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body
coach body section
Part of a coach body cut through vertically.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: coach body sections
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body
coach house
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coach houses
CL Built works and components
BT carriage shed
coach lamp
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coach lamps
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <artificial lighting components>
coach painting equipment
Tools and equipment used by coach painters for painting and lining out
railway vehicles.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coach painting equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT paintshop tools and equipment
NT lining brush
coach roofboard
A board positioned on the edge of a carriage roof of some passenger trains
showing the principal stopping stations en route or the name of the train.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: coach roofboards
USE carriage roof board
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <destination, etc. indicating equipment>
coach section
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coach sections
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body
coach solebar plate
Use 'carriage number plate' if appropriate. For any other kind of carriage
solebar plate, use the appropriate term (e.g. 'works plate' for a carriage works
plate).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coach solebar plates
USE carriage number plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT number plate
coach waybill
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coach waybills
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <passenger traffic accounting>
coaching stock
Rolling stock built to passenger traffic specifications.
Warrant: John
Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: coaching stock
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by traffic rating>
coal bunker
An enclosure for containing coal, usually behind the cab of a steam
locomotive.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B
Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: coal bunkers
UF bunker
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel storage components>
coal cells
A coal storage facility divided into a series of separate compartment.
Warrant: North-Eastern Branch Line Termini, K Hoole, Oxford Publishing Company,
1985
Plural form: coal cells
CL Built works and components
BT <freight transhipment structures>
coal door
The door provided for access to the fuel in the tender or bunker of a steam
locomotive.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: coal doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel storage components>
coal drops
A raised area from which coal is discharged from wagons into coal cells,
ships etc.
Warrant: Jim Rees, Beamish North of England Open Air Museum
Plural form: coal drops
CL Built works and components
BT <freight transhipment structures>
coal fired locomotive
A steam locomotive which uses coal as the source of energy to generate
steam.
Warrant: American Locomotives An Engineering History 1830 - 1880,
John H White, The John Hopkins Press, 1968
Plural form: coal fired locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by fuel>
coal hammer
A blunt edged hammer used for breaking up large lumps of coal in to pieces
suitable for firing a steam locomotive.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coal hammers
UF firemans coal hammer
CL Tools and equipment
BT firemans equipment
coal hopper wagon
A wagon with a hopper shaped load space from which coal is discharged
through doors in the floor of the wagon.
Warrant: John Robinson, The
Transport Trust
Plural form: coal hopper wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coal wagon
NT chaldron wagon
coal pusher
A mechanical device for pushing the coal forward in the tender of a steam
locomotive to make it easier for the fireman to reach from the footplate.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue &
Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: coal pushers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel supply components>
coal rail
A strip, or several strips, of steel arranged around the top of a
locomotive tender or bunker to increase the capacity and to stop coal from
falling off the tender onto the track.
Warrant: Great Western Railway
Drawing Registers
Plural form: coal rails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel storage components>
coal stage
A platform from which steam locomotives are loaded with coal.
Warrant:
The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan
Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: coal stages
CL Built works and components
BT <motive power stabling and servicing structures>
RT motive power depot
coal train
A train composed entirely of coal carrying wagons.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: coal trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT freight train
coal wagon
A freight vehicle dedicated to the conveyance of coal.
Warrant: Phil
Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: coal wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mineral carrying vehicles>
NT coal hopper wagon
NT coke wagon
coaling stage
A special track raised above the surrounding track level so that coal
wagons can be raised to allow them to be discharged into locomotive tenders.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coaling stages
CL Built works and components
BT <motive power stabling and servicing structures>
coaling tower
A tower which straddles the railway track enabling coal to be discharged
from above into the tender of a steam locomotive.
Warrant: Top Shed, P N
Townend, Ian Allan Ltd, 2nd Edn, 1989
Plural form: coaling towers
CL Built works and components
BT <motive power stabling and servicing structures>
coating system
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coating systems
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
code trip valve
An electrically operated pneumatic valve used to apply the emergency brake
in the event of loss of the ATP signal on the 1967 Tube Stock.
Warrant: LUL
Jargon Buster
Plural form: code trip valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <on-train automatic train protection equipment>
RT brake gear
coffee pot (locomotive)
A locomotive with a vertical boiler.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary,
An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: coffee pots
USE vertical boilered locomotive
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by boiler characteristics>
coffin carrier
An enclosed platform trolley to convey corpses between hearse and train.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: coffin carriers
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station trolleys and barrows>
coin acceptor
A device in a booking office for checking the integrity of tendered coins.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coin acceptors
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
coin acceptor mechanism
The internal mechanism of a device in a booking office for checking the
integrity of tendered coins.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coin acceptor mechanisms
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
coin bag
A bag of leather, cloth, paper or plastic used for transporting coins.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: coin bags
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
coke wagon
A freight vehicle dedicated to the conveyance of coke.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: coke wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coal wagon
collapsible gate
A folding gate used to close lifts, gangways or platforms against access.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: collapsible gates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
collar chair
A chair designed to support the legs of a crossing beyond the end of the
wing rails.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and
practice, W Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p174
Plural form: collar chairs
CL Track and track components
BT rail chair
collecting pipe
A pipe for the collection of the steam from the top of the boiler, used on
boilers where the regulator valve was not housed in a dome.
Warrant:
Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: collecting pipes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam transmission components>
collector shoe
A third rail current collection device mounted on the bogie of a direct
current electric train.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares,
Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: collector shoes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
colliery railway
A private railway serving coal mine.
Warrant: A Railway History of
Denaby & Cadeby Collieries, A J Booth, Industrial Railway Society, 1990
Plural form: colliery railways
