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galled rail
A rail that has been worn on the underside at the point of contact with the
chairs or baseplates.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: galled rails
CL Track and track components
BT damaged rail
gangers equipment
The tools and equipment used by the permanent way ganger to enable him to
carry out his duties.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: gangers equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT <permanent way tools and equipment>
NT ballast fork
NT ballast pot
NT jim crow
NT keying hammer
NT permanent way hammer
NT pickaxe
NT rail ice scraper
NT spade
NT tamper (hand held)
NT track gauge
NT voidmeter
gangers hut
A cabin or hut situated alongside the railway line for the use of railway
permanent way staff.
Warrant: Gibbon, Richard H. BSc, FIMechE, CIEng, Head
of Engineering Collections, National Railway Museum, York
Plural form: gangers huts
USE permanent way hut
CL Built works and components
BT <route maintenance structures>
gangers length
The section of track maintained by a ganger in charge of a permanent way
gang.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: gangers lengths
CL Track and track components
BT <lines by maintenance>
gangway
A metal plate or deck providing access between one carriage and another.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: gangways
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <areas within vehicle body>
gangway area
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: gangway areas
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <areas within vehicle body>
gangway component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: gangway components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT access component
NT gangway faceplate
RT tailboard
gangway faceplate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: gangway faceplates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT gangway component
gangwayed carriage
A railway carriage fitted with connecting gangways to provide access to
adjacent vehicles whilst the train is in motion.
Warrant: John Robinson,
The Transport Trust
Plural form: gangwayed carriages
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
gantry cross member
A horizontal section of signal gantry of either steel or timber
construction.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway
Museum
Plural form: gantry cross members
CL Control and communications
BT signal gantry component
gantry stanchion
A vertical support of a signal gantry of either steel or timber
construction.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway
Museum
Plural form: gantry stanchions
CL Control and communications
BT signal gantry component
gantry (signal)
A structure supporting fixed signals, which usually extends across one or
more railway tracks.
Warrant: Encyclopedia of Railways, O S Nock, 1977
Plural form: gantries
USE signal gantry
CL Control and communications
BT signal support component
gap
A break in continuity of conductor rail.
Warrant: Encyclopedia of
Railways, O S Nock, 1977
Plural form: gaps
CL Track and track components
BT conductor rail equipment
gap jumper
A device used to restore the traction supply to a train via the shed
receptacle box in the event of the train being 'gapped' (i.e. stalling due to
its current collector shoe becoming isolated from the conductor rails).
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: gap jumpers
CL Track and track components
BT conductor rail equipment
garden railway
Scope note required.
Warrant: The Garden Railway Manual, C J Freezer,
Patrick Stephens Ltd, 1985
Plural form: garden railways
CL Railway types
BT miniature railway
RT miniature railway
RT model railway
garnish rail
A horizontal structural member forming the inside bottom of a vehicle door
window opening.
Warrant: Railway Carriages and Wagons: Their design and
construction (reprinted articles from The Railway Engineer 1892-7), Sidney
Stone, republished by Peter Kay, circa 1997 Fig 508.
Plural form: garnish rails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door framing
gas economiser wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of gas economisers.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: gas economiser wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
gas key
A standard key used for unlocking the gas lamps in railway carriages in
order to service and maintain them.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: gas keys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
gas roof lamp
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: gas roof lamps
UF roof lamp gas
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <artificial lighting components>
gas tank wagon
A tank wagon used for transporting, storing and supplying gas for railway
carriage lighting
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: gas tank wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for stores and consumables>
gas turbine engine
Scope note required.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H
Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: gas turbine engines
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT engine
gas turbine locomotive
A locomotive driven by a gas turbine, or jet engine driving a generator.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: gas turbine locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by power source>
gas turbine train
A train powered by gas turbine propelled motive power.
Warrant:
Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co
Ltd, 1952
Plural form: gas turbine trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by propulsion method>
gasworks locomotive
A locomotive designed for use on gasworks tramways/railways, typically of
reduced height.
Warrant: Hunslet Engine Company Catalogues
Plural form: gasworks locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT industrial locomotive
gasworks railway
A private railway or siding complex serving a gasworks company.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: gasworks railways
CL Railway types
BT industrial railway
gate box
A signal box with the sole purpose of controlling a level crossing.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: gate boxes
CL Control and communications
BT <control centres by function>
gate lamp
The warning lamp mounted on the top crossbar of a level crossing gate.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: gate lamps
CL Control and communications
BT level crossing gate component
gate lampcase
The outer casing of the warning lamp mounted on the top crossbar of a level
crossing gate.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway
Museum
Plural form: gate lampcases
CL Control and communications
BT level crossing gate lamp component
gate lock mechanism
Mechanism for locking level crossing gates in the open or closed position.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: gate lock mechanisms
CL Control and communications
BT <level crossing locking and detection equipment>
gate (level crossing)
A fabrication in either timber or steel to prevent access to the railway
during the passage of trains.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: gates (level crossing)
USE level crossing gate
CL Control and communications
BT <level crossing gates, barriers, etc.>
gated level crossing
A level crossing protected by gates.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: gated level crossings
CL Control and communications
BT <level crossings by physical protection>
gauge glass
A glass tube in the cab of a steam locomotive which shows the height of the
water in the boiler.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: gauge glasses
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel and water controls and gauges>
gauge glass assembly
The glass columns and covers and the brass fittings attached to the firebox
backhead to indicate the level of the water in the boiler.
Warrant: The
Locomotive of Today, Locomotive Publishing Company, 1927
Plural form: gauge glass assemblies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel and water controls and gauges>
gauge glass fitting
The brass fitting holding the glass column indicating the level of the
water in the boiler.
Warrant: The Locomotive of Today, Locomotive
Publishing Company, 1927
Plural form: gauge glass fittings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel and water controls and gauges>
gauge glass lamp
A small oil lamp used to illuminate the gauge glass in hours of darkness.
Warrant: The Locomotive of Today, Locomotive Publishing Company, 1927
Plural form: gauge glass lamps
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel and water controls and gauges>
gauge glass tube
The glass tube fitted in the gauge glass assembly showing the level of
water in the boiler.
Warrant: The Locomotive of Today, Locomotive
Publishing Company, 1927
Plural form: gauge glass tubes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel and water controls and gauges>
gauge lamp
A small lamp used to illuminate the gauges in the cab of a locomotive in
hours of darkness.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: gauge lamps
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel and water controls and gauges>
RT boiler assembly
gauge post
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: gauge posts
CL Track and track components
BT <unidentified track>
gauge scale
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: gauge scales
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
gauge tie bar
A bar connecting the stock rails in order to maintain the correct track
gauge at turnouts, etc.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory
and practice, W Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p162.
Plural form: gauge tie bars
CL Track and track components
BT <cross ties>
general merchandise wagon
A wagon for the conveyance of non-specific goods.
Warrant: John
Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: general merchandise wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load or function>
NT covered van
NT open goods wagon
<general operating tools and equipment>
Any object or machine used in an occupation or industrial pursuit. Warrant:
National Railway Museum
Plural form: <general operating tools and equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway operating tools and equipment>
NT barrow
NT flag
NT high-visibility jacket
NT hydrometer
NT railwaymans bag
NT real time clock
NT safety barrier
NT <portable lamps and components>
general purpose track repair and maintenance machine
A railway maintenance vehicle and trailer which can carry rails and other
materials plus workers to and from the work site.
Warrant: On-track plant
on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition,
1981, p13
Plural form: general purpose track repair and maintenance machines
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
<general test equipment>
Any machine, tool or equipment used for testing the operation or efficiency
of things. Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: <general test equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general tools and equipment>
NT micrometer
NT test lamp
NT test meter
NT test meter shunt
NT testing set 'Megger' resistance meter
NT wattmeter
<general tools and equipment>
Railway tools that are not specific to any one department. Warrant:
National Railway Museum
Plural form: <general tools and equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
NT foot straight edge
NT pocket watch
NT steam fire pump
NT turning force tester
NT wheeled barrow
NT <access tools and equipment>
NT <general test equipment>
general utility van
A general purpose bogie parcels van with both end and side door loading.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: general utility vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mail, parcels, etc. carrying vehicles>
generator van
A covered vehicle containing a generator.
Warrant: John Robinson, The
Transport Trust
Plural form: generator vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power and heating vehicles>
Gibson machine
A conductor/guard operated machine for issuing tickets printed from a blank
paper roll.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: Gibson machines
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine
Giffards injector
A device for feeding water into the boiler using steam pressure, invented
by Giffard.
Warrant: The Steam Engine and Other Heat Engines, Sir J Arthur
Ewing, 1926
Plural form: Giffords injectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT injector
girder trolley
A special freight vehicle, usually part of a set, for carrying long and
heavy loads such as girders.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: girder trolleys
USE girder wagon
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
girder wagon
A specialised vehicle, usually part of a set, for carrying long and heavy
loads such as girders.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: girder wagons
UF girder trolley
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
NT articulated girder wagon set
gland
A steam tight seal embracing a piston rod or valve spindle.
Warrant:
Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: glands
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
glass string
A heavy leather strap used to lower, raise and secure a droplight.
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: glass strings
USE window strap
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT droplight component
glass wagon
A specialised vehicle dedicated to the conveyance of plate glass.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: glass wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <other special traffic vehicles>
glass (gauge)
A transparent gauge which indicates the actual water level in a locomotive
boiler.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: glasses (gauge)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel and water controls and gauges>
RT boiler
goods avoiding line
A railway line diverging from the main line to allow the passage of freight
trains to avoid going through a station.
Warrant: Gordon Reed, Permanent
Way Institution
Plural form: goods avoiding lines
CL Track and track components
BT avoiding line
goods brake van
A vehicle designed to allow a hand brake or train brake of a goods train to
be operated by a person other than the driver.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: goods brake vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT brake van
NT Freightliner brake van
NT road van
NT tariff van
goods department travelling crane
A hand crane used for unloading goods traffic in depots that do not have a
fixed crane.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: goods department travelling cranes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <travelling cranes by function>
goods invoice
A document demanding payment for the carriage of goods.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: goods invoices
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
goods line
A line which has not been signalled to the standards required for running
passenger trains.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: goods lines
CL Track and track components
BT <running lines by type of train>
goods shed
A building used for the transfer of goods from one vehicle to another.
Warrant: Practical Railway Operating, T B Hare, Modern Transport Publishing
Company Ltd, 1931
Plural form: goods sheds
CL Built works and components
BT <freight transhipment structures>
NT clearing house
NT holding shed
NT intercepting goods shed
goods station
A yard or depot dealing entirely with goods traffic.
Warrant: John
Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: goods stations
CL Built works and components
BT <transhipment complexes>
goods waybill
A label attached to goods in transit to indicate destination, consignee
etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: goods waybills
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
goods yard
Railway sidings where full-load freight traffic is loaded/unloaded.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: goods yards
CL Built works and components
BT <transhipment complexes>
governor
A device for maintaining as closely as possible a constant engine
crankshaft speed over long periods during which the load on the engine may vary.
Warrant: Encyclopedia of Railways, O S Nock, 1977
Plural form: governors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <engine components>
NT mechanical governor
grab handle
The handle on a railway vehicle door by which the door is opened.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: grab handles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <foot and hand holds>
grabrail
The hand-hold on the side or end of a vehicle to facilitate passengers or
staff leaving or entering the vehicle.
Warrant: John Robinson, The
Transport Trust
Plural form: grabrails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <foot and hand holds>
gradient
A slope or inclination to the horizontal of a railway in the direction of
travel.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B
Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: gradients
CL Built works and components
BT <route by inclination, etc.>
gradient board
A lineside board on which the gradient of the line is marked.
Warrant:
John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: gradient boards
CL Built works and components
BT <signs and markers>
gradient post
A lineside sign indicating whether a gradient is up, down or level and its
measure/inclination, usually shown on arms pointing in each direction.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: gradient posts
CL Built works and components
BT <signs and markers>
grain hopper wagon
A covered hopper wagon for the conveyance of grain in bulk.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: grain hopper wagons
USE bulk grain wagon
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cereal carrying vehicles>
RT hopper wagon
grain van
A covered hopper wagon for the conveyance of grain in bulk.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: grain vans
USE bulk grain wagon
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cereal carrying vehicles>
RT hopper wagon
granite ballast
A type of stone sometimes used for ballasting the permanent way.
Warrant: Alan Blower, Permanent Way Institution
Plural form: granite ballast
CL Track and track components
BT ballast
grate
The base of the firebox upon which the fire rests.
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: grates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT firebox component
NT drop grate
NT rocking grate
gravel pit railway
A light railway used to carry gravel from a quarry.
Warrant:
Industrial Railways of the South-East, I Dean et al, The Middleton Press, 1984
Plural form: gravel railways
CL Railway types
BT quarry railway
gravity railway
A railway built on a gradient such as to allow trains to travel downhill by
gravity alone, trains usually being hauled back uphill by horses.
Warrant:
Festiniog Railway Gravity Trains, P Johnson, Festiniog Railway Heritage Group,
1986
Plural form: gravity railways
CL Railway types
BT <stationary traction source>
grease axlebox
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: grease axleboxes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT axlebox
grease dispenser
A container with an outlet and pumping mechanism for applying grease to
axle boxes and other moving part of machinery and railway vehicles.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: grease dispensers
CL Tools and equipment
BT lubrication equipment
grease separator drip valve
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: grease separator drip valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water feed components>
RT exhaust steam injector
Gresham Dreadnought ejector
A vacuum brake ejector, made by Gresham & Craven.
Warrant:
Locomotives, their construction, maintenance and operation, A Morton Bell,
Virtue & Co Ltd, 1946
Plural form: Gresham Dreadnought ejectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT ejector
Gresham locomotive steam standing apparatus
A device for directing sand under steam pressure in to the rail in order to
enhance adhesion.
Warrant: Locomotive Management, 10th edition, J T Hodgson
& C S Lake, revised by W B Oaten, Tothill Press, 1954
Plural form: Gresham locomotive steam standing apparatus
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT sanding gear
Gresham vertical combination injector
An injector incorporating the steam cock, warning cock and shut off cock in
a single fitting, manufactured by Gresham & Craven.
Warrant: The
Locomotive of Today, Locomotive Publishing Company, 1927
Plural form: Gresham vertical combination injectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT injector
gridiron
A fan of sidings in a marshalling yard, usually gravity worked (obsolete
railway slang).
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: gridirons
CL Built works and components
BT marshalling yard
gripper brake
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: gripper brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT brake
ground disc
A small shunting signal at ground level.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon
Buster, 1999
Plural form: ground discs
CL Control and communications
BT disc signal
ground frame
A small lever frame, usually mounted at ground level, used to work little
used connections at locations remote from the signal box.
Warrant:
Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: ground frames
CL Control and communications
BT <lever frames by location>
RT shunting frame
ground position light signal
A position light signal mounted at ground level.
Warrant: The History &
Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National
Railway Museum
Plural form: ground position light signals
CL Control and communications
BT position light signal
ground shunt signal
A shunting signal mounted at ground level.
Warrant: The History &
Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National
Railway Museum
Plural form: ground shunt signals
CL Control and communications
BT shunting signal
ground signal
Any type of signal placed at ground level to control movements in sidings
or shunting.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: ground signals
UF dod
UF dolly
UF dummy
CL Control and communications
BT shunting signal
ground signal lamp
The removable paraffin lamp used for illuminating ground signals.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: ground signal lamps
CL Control and communications
BT signal lamp
ground signal lamp case
The outer casing for the removable paraffin lamp used for illuminating
ground signals.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National
Railway Museum
Plural form: ground signal lamp cases
CL Control and communications
BT signal lamp component
guard iron
A steel arm suspended in front of the wheels of a railway vehicle to
prevent small obstructions getting under the wheels and derailing it.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: guard irons
UF life guard
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track clearing components>
guard 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: guard rails
USE check rail
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by function>
guards bag
A bag supplied by the railway company to the railway guard to carry the
tools and equipment required for him to carry our his duties.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: guards bags
CL Tools and equipment
BT guards equipment
guards equipment
The tools and equipment used by the railway guard to enable him to carry
out his duties.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: guards equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
NT guards bag
NT guards flag
NT guards handlamp
NT guards watch
NT guards whistle
RT <driver/guard communication systems>
guards flag
A coloured flag used by the railway guard to signal the driver to start or
stop the train. Red is used to stop the train, green is used to start the train.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: guards flags
CL Tools and equipment
BT guards equipment
guards handlamp
A handlamp carried by the railway guard used for giving hand signals in
poor light, usually capable of showing red, green and white light.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: guards handlamps
UF guards lamp
CL Tools and equipment
BT guards equipment
guards lamp
A handlamp carried by the railway guard used for giving hand signals in
poor light, usually capable of showing red, green and white light.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: guards lamps
USE guards handlamp
CL Tools and equipment
BT guards equipment
guards watch
A timepiece carried by the guard to ensure thathe performs his duties in
accordance with the railway timetable and keeps the train running to time.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: guards watches
CL Tools and equipment
BT guards equipment
guards whistle
An audible device used by guards to inform of a hazard or instruct driver
to depart.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: guards whistles
CL Tools and equipment
BT guards equipment
guide lever
Scope note required.
Warrant: Orenstein and Koppel Patent No. 104045
Plural form: guide levers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear component
gulley rail
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: gulley rails
CL Track and track components
BT plate rail
gully rail
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: gully rails
CL Track and track components
BT plate rail
gun set
A set of special freight vehicles designed to carry heavy gun barrels.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: gun sets
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
gunpowder van
A railway van used for the carriage of gunpowder, usually constructed of
steel for strength, safety and security.
Warrant: British Railways Wagons -
the first half million, D P Rowland, David & Charles, 1985
Plural form: gunpowder vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <other special traffic vehicles>
gunpowder van boot
A wooden soled boot worn by personnel working in or near gunpowder carrying
vehicles.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: gunpowder van boots
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
gunpowder van key
A security key used to lock vehicles carrying explosives.
Warrant:
John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: gunpowder van keys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <carriage and wagon tools and equipment>
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