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Hackworth valve gear
A form of locomotive link motion, developed by John Hackworth (1820-1891),
the arrangement of which allowed both the lead of the slide valve and variable
expansion and reversal to be achieved through the use of one eccentric, crank or
radial pin.
Warrant: Kerr Stuart Catalogue 1928
Plural form: Hackworth valve gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear
Hadfield steam reverser
A steam servo motor capable of fine adjustment for operating the valve gear
on a steam locomotive, especially used on Beyer Garratt articulated locomotives.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue &
Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: Hadfield steam reversers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT steam reverser
half barrier crossing
An automatic barrier level crossing where the barriers embrace only half
the carriageway.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National
Railway Museum
Plural form: half barrier crossings
USE automatic half-barrier crossing
CL Control and communications
BT automatic barrier crossing
half-barrier
A barrier for closing the entrance to a level crossing to the oncoming road
traffic whilst maintaining the exit from the crossing open.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: half-barriers
CL Control and communications
BT level crossing barrier
Hallade track recorder
A scientific device used in a moving vehicle to instantaneously quantify
permanent way defects.
Warrant: The Hallade Track Recorder and Hints on the
Maintenance of Curves, LMSR, 1934
Plural form: Hallade track recorders
CL Tools and equipment
BT track recorder
halt
A minor stopping place without full station facilities.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: halts
CL Built works and components
BT station
hand barrow
A wheeled hand cart for transporting luggage, goods and equipment along
station platforms.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: hand barrows
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station trolleys and barrows>
hand bell
A bell that has a handle enabling it to be held in the hand for ringing,
used on station platforms for making station announcements.
Warrant: Art &
Architecture Thesaurus, Getty Art History Information Program, Oxford University
Press, 1990
Plural form: hand bells
USE station handbell
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general operating tools and equipment>
hand brake
A mechanism for the manual application, by lever or wheel, of the brake to
a vehicle.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: hand brakes
UF handbrake
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
hand crane (travelling)
A hand operated crane mounted on a wagon chassis allowing it to be moved
within or between yards to the exact point at which it is needed.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: hand cranes (travelling)
USE travelling hand crane
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <travelling cranes by power source>
hand crane (yard)
A manually operated crane that is fixed to a single place in a railway
depot or yard.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: hand cranes
CL Built works and components
BT <freight transhipment structures>
hand lamp
A hand-held portable light source carried by railwaymen and used for giving
hand signals in poor light.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: hand lamps
USE handlamp
CL Tools and equipment
BT <portable lamps and components>
<hand signalling>
The control of railway movements by manual methods such as arm movements,
flags and handlamps. Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: <hand signalling>
CL Control and communications
BT <visual signals>
NT fog flare lamp
NT fogmans lamp
NT signalmans flag
NT signalmans handlamp
hand tool
Any tool which is operated by and guided by hand.
Warrant: Art &
Architecture Thesaurus, Getty Art History Information Program, Oxford University
Press, 1990
Plural form: hand tools
CL Tools and equipment
BT engineering workshop tools and equipment
handbell
A bell that has a handle enabling it to be held in the hand for ringing,
used on station platforms for making station announcements.
Warrant: Art &
Architecture Thesaurus, Getty Art History Information Program, Oxford University
Press, 1990
Plural form: handbells
USE station handbell
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general tools and equipment>
handbill
A means of supplying printed information about railway services and
regulations from earliest times (1840 Newcastle & Carlisle Rly).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: handbills
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
handbill rack
A wooden, metal or plastic display rack for handbills and other information
leaflets.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: handbill racks
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
handbrake
A mechanism for the manual application, by lever or wheel, of the brake to
a vehicle.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: handbrakes
USE hand brake
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
Handiprinter
A proprietary make of ticket printing/issuing machine - a small version of
the Flexiprinter machine, which printed destination and fare details onto blank
cards using a separate slug for each attribute.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: Handiprinters
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine
Handiprinter slug
A slug for printing destination and fare details onto blank cards, for use
with the Handiprinter machine.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: Handiprinter slugs
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
RT ticket issuing machine
handite
A hand held sandite applicator.
Warrant: Railtrack London & North
Eastern, A Glossary of Railway Terms, October 1998
Plural form: handites
CL Tools and equipment
BT <track cleaning, greasing and adhesion equipment>
handlamp
A hand-held portable light source carried by railwaymen and used for giving
hand signals in poor light.
Warrant: Railway Relics and Regalia, Ed P
Whitehouse, Country Life, 1975
Plural form: handlamps
UF hand lamp
CL Tools and equipment
BT <portable lamps and components>
NT Bardic lamp
handlamp component
All the indivual parts required to make a complete handlamp.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: handlamp components
CL Tools and equipment
BT <portable lamps and components>
handle (door)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: handles (door)
CL Built works and components
BT <built work components by type>
handle (regulator)
The lever on the back of the locomotive firebox by which the regulator
valve is controlled.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: handles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT regulator component
handle (vehicle door)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: handles (vehicle door)
USE vehicle door handle
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
handrail
Steel tubing attached to various parts of a locomotive in order to assist
access.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: handrails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <foot and hand holds>
handrail knob
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: handrail knobs
USE handrail knob
UF handrail knob
UF knob (handrail)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <foot and hand holds>
hanging lamp
A lamp hung from the roof or canopy of a building for the purpose of
providing illumination.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: hanging lamps
CL Built works and components
BT <fixed lighting by form>
harbour railway
A railway serving a dock or harbour.
Warrant: The Weymouth Harbour
Tramway, J H Lucking, Oxford Publishing Company, 1986
Plural form: harbour railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways supporting other transport systems>
hardwood sleeper
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: hardwood sleepers
UF hardwood transverse sleeper
CL Track and track components
BT wooden sleeper
hardwood transverse sleeper
Transverse sleeper produced from hardwood.
Warrant: Railtrack Group
Standard
Plural form: hardwood transverse sleepers
USE hardwood sleeper
PLUS transverse sleeper
CL Track and track components
BT wooden sleeper
harness
Any harness designed to be fitted to help an animal or person move a
vehicle.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: harnesses
CL Tools and equipment
BT <draught animal equipment>
hatch component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: hatch components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT access component
NT hatch cover
NT manhole (vehicle)
NT tank lid
hatch cover
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: hatch covers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT hatch component
haulage cable
The cable used to haul wagons on an incline.
Warrant: The Bowes
Railway, C E Mountford, The Industrial Railway Society, 1976.
Plural form: haulage cables
CL Built works and components
BT <cable haulage structures and equipment>
hazard warning light
A miniature warning light at a level crossing indicating an approaching
train.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: hazard warning lights
CL Unattributed
BT <unattributed>
head lamp
A light at the front of a vehicle.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: head lamps
USE headlamp
CL Control and communications
BT <on-train signals>
head lamp bracket
The vertical tongues of steel fitted at various points around the front and
rear of railway vehicles to hold head lamps, discs and tail lamps.
Warrant:
The Locomotive of Today, Locomotive Publishing Company, 1927
Plural form: head lamp brackets
USE headlamp bracket
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT lamp bracket
headboard
A board placed on a bracket on the front of a locomotive or train showing
the name of the train or the reporting number.
Warrant: Titled Trains of
Great Britain, C J Allen, Ian Allan Ltd, 5th Edn, 1967
Plural form: headboards
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <destination, etc. indicating equipment>
headcode disc
A marker, latterly usually in the form of a white disk, displayed singly or
with others on the front of a train to indicate by position the class and
sometimes the route of the train. Headlamps performed the same function at
night.
Warrant: British Railways Rule Book, 1950
Plural form: headcode discs
CL Control and communications
BT <on-train signals>
headcode lamp (fixed)
An electrically operated headcode lamp permanently built into the end of a
locomotive or multiple unit train, as distinct from the traditional removable
headlamp.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: headcode lamps (fixed)
USE fixed headcode lamp
CL Control and communications
BT headlamp
RT <fixed head and tail lamps>
header panel
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: header panels
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
header tank
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: header tanks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
headlamp
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: headlamps
UF head lamp
CL Control and communications
BT <on-train signals>
NT fixed headcode lamp
headlamp bracket
The vertical tongues of steel fitted at various points around the front and
rear of railway vehicles to hold head lamps, discs and tail lamps.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: head lamp brackets
UF head lamp bracket
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT lamp bracket
headlight
A light at the front of a vehicle.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: headlights
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <artificial lighting components>
headshunt
A spur or siding provided at the entrance to a yard, etc. to permit the
yard to be shunted without repeatedly fouling the main line.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: headshunts
CL Track and track components
BT <shunting roads>
RT siding
RT spur
headspan wire
Wire suspended across tracks from which the overhead line equipment is
suspended.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: headspan wires
CL Track and track components
BT overhead line equipment
headstock
The transverse end of a vehicle frame, to which buffers, couplings etc are
attached.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: headstocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT underframe component
RT buffer beam
<heat exchange components>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <heat exchange components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam generation components>
NT feedwater heater
NT smoke tube
NT superheater component
NT thermic syphon
NT water tube
heat treated rail
A rail subjected to controlled cooling or other heat treatment after
rolling with the intention of achieving specified mechanical properties.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: heat treated rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by treatment>
heated vehicle
A vehicle with facilities for heating for the comfort of passengers,
prevention of deterioration of the load, hastening ripening of the load or
aiding discharge of the load.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: heated vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by climate control>
NT steam heated vehicle
heating component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: heating components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <environmental control components>
NT cab heating
NT carriage warming pressure gauge
NT carriage warming stop cock
NT carriage warming valve
NT saloon heat and vent control
NT saloon heat and ventilation indicator
NT saloon heating
NT steam heat control valve
NT steam heat shut-off cock
NT steam heating gear
NT steam heating safety valve
NT train heating boiler
NT train heating pipe stop cock
heavy oil engined locomotive
A locomotive driven by internal combustion engine which burns heavy (crude)
oil.
Warrant: The British Internal Combustion Locomotive: 1894 -1940, Brian
Webb, David & Charles, 1973 Warrant: Ruston Hornsby Co. Ltd catalogues
Plural form: heavy oil engine locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT oil engined locomotive
heel chair
A chair designed to support both the stock rail and point or switch rail at
the heel of a switch.
Warrant: Railway Appliances, John Wolf Barry,
Longmans, Green and Co, 1876 p88
Plural form: heel chairs
USE switch heel chair
CL Track and track components
BT rail chair
heel (switch)
The pivoted end of points at which the rails carrying a train on to the
diverging line begin.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: heels (switch)
USE switch heel
CL Track and track components
BT switch rail
RT switch (track sub-assembly)
helical bearing spring
A spring made of round, square or flat section spring steel arranged in a
spiral of constant diameter.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: helical bearing springs
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bearing spring
help point
The means by which passengers can communicate with staff, may be a manned
position, a telephone point, push-button screen or a series on notices.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: help points
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
help point model
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: help point models
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
heritage railway
A preserved railway that never formally closed, passing directly into the
hands of preservationists.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: heritage railways
CL Railway types
BT preserved railway
Heusinger von Waldegg valve gear
A steam locomotive radial valve gear almost identical to Walschaerts valve
gear.
Warrant: Orenstein and Koppel publicity material
Plural form: Heusinger von Waldegg valve gears
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear
high pressure steam locomotive
A steam locomotive designed with a boiler pressed to a higher than normal
pressure (above 300 psi).
Warrant: High-Pressure Locomotives, H N Gresley,
Plural form: high pressure steam locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by steam characteristics>
high sided wagon
An open railway wagon with sides over three planks high.
Warrant:
Standard Codes for Telegrams, British Railways, 1958 p73 Warrant: An Illustrated
History of BR Wagons, Volume 1, Paul Bartlett, David Larkin, Trevor Mann, Roger
Silsbury & Andrew Ward, Oxford Publishing Company, 1985 p41
Plural form: high sided wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <open vehicles by height>
high speed train
A diesel multiple unit passenger train developed in the UK for 125 mph
running.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: high speed trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by speed>
High Speed Train cab
The driver's compartment of a High Speed Train.
Warrant: HSTs At Work,
R Ford & B Perren, Ian Allan Ltd, 1988
Plural form: High Speed Train cabs
UF HST cab
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT cab
high-visibility jacket
A bright orange jacket, often enhanced by the addition of reflective bands,
which improves visibility of the wearer.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: high-visibility jackets
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general operating tools and equipment>
hinge
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: hinges
CL Built works and components
BT <built work components by type>
RT vehicle door hinge
hinge (vehicle door)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: hinges (vehicle door)
USE vehicle door hinge
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
Holdens liquid fuel burner
A device to permit the burning of oil gas residue in a locomotive firebox
as a substitute for coal.
Warrant: Locomotive Designers in the Age of
Steam, J N Westwood, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1977.
Plural form: Holdens liquid fuel burners
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT liquid fuel burner
holding shed
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: holding sheds
CL Built works and components
BT goods shed
hole
A depression of the track, at the bank head or bank foot used to slacken
the tension on a rope to permit its removal from a set, always of empties.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: holes
CL Track and track components
BT <track areas by function>
hollow bolster wagon
A steel or timber carrying wagon fitted with transverse load-bearing
bolsters with stanchions.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: hollow bolster wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <timber/steel carrying vehicles>
holophane-edgecumbe auto-photometer
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: holophane-edgecumbe auto-photometers
CL Tools and equipment
BT <unidentified tools and equipment>
home signal
The nearest stop signal on the approach to a signalbox.
Warrant:
Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: home signals
CL Control and communications
BT stop signal
NT inner home signal
NT intermediate block home signal
NT outer home signal
hooded ventilator
An external ventilator, generally situated on a door or above a window, and
covered by a plain metal hood.
Warrant: The Illustrated history of LMS
standard coaching stock Vol 3: Non-corridor, special purpose and self-propelled
vehicles, David Jenkinson & Bob Essery, Oxford Publishing Company, 2000 p8
Plural form: hooded ventilators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT ventilator
hook (coupling)
The hook protruding from the buffer beam to enable the vehicle to be
coupled to another.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: hooks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
hopper ashpan
A type of ashpan designed to collect ash which can be emptied directly from
a drop grate without having to manually rake out the contents.
Warrant:
Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: hopper ashpans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT ash disposal component
hopper ballast wagon
A railway engineering department wagon for dropping ballast onto the
trackbed.
Warrant: John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: hopper ballast wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT ballast wagon
hopper head
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: hopper heads
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
hopper wagon
A wagon with hinged base allowing load to fall out quickly.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: hopper wagons
UF hopper (wagon)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <open vehicles by shape of load space>
RT bottom discharge hopper wagon
RT coal hopper wagon
RT covered hopper wagon
RT grain hopper wagon
RT hopper ballast wagon
RT side discharge hopper wagon
hopper window
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: hopper windows
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT light (vehicle window)
hopper (wagon)
A wagon with hinged base allowing load to fall out quickly.
Warrant:
The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan
Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: hoppers (wagons)
USE hopper wagon
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <open vehicles by shape of load space>
horizontal tappet lever frame
A type of mechanical interlocking frame utilising a horizontal locking
tray.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: horizontal tappet lever frames
CL Control and communications
BT interlocking frame
horizontally opposed cylinder locomotive
A steam locomotive designed using cylinders horizontally opposed in place
of the conventional system.
Warrant: Ramsey Loco. Co., Railway Engineer,
1922
Plural form: horizontally opposed cylinder locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <piston driven steam locomotives>
horizontally printed ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: horizontally printed tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by print features>
horn block
The steel casting fitted round the axlebox slots in the frames of a
locomotive to strengthen the frames at these weak places and to provide greater
sliding surfaces for the axleboxes.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working,
C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: horn blocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotive frame assemblies>
horn plate
A plate fitted for strengthening purposes around the axle openings on
locomotive frames.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: horn plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotive frame assemblies>
horn (acoustic)
An electrically or pneumatically operated warning device provided for a
driver to sound at will.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares,
Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: horns (acoustic)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <warning devices>
NT air horn
horn (axlebox)
Part of an axlebox guidance assembly mounted on the exterior of a
locomotive or bogie frame.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares,
Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: horns (axlebox)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotive frame assemblies>
horn (loco component)
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: horns (loco components)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotive frame assemblies>
horn (pantograph)
Part of the pantograph which curves down at each end of the collector head
and which fractures if struck at speed giving a detection signal to lower the
pantograph.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: horns (pantograph)
USE pantograph horn
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <overhead power collection components>
Hornsby-Akroyd engined locomotive
A locomotive driven by internal combustion engine which burns heavy (crude)
oil.
Warrant: The British Internal Combustion Locomotive: 1894-1940, Brian
Webb, David & Charles, 1973 Warrant: Ruston Hornsby Co. Ltd catalogues
Plural form: Hornsby-Akroyd engined locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT oil engined locomotive
horse box
A van designed to carry horses, with passenger half-compartment at one end
for groom accompanying the horses on their journey.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: horse boxes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <livestock carrying vehicles>
horse hauled stock
Railway vehicles specifically intended to be drawn by horses.
Warrant:
John Robinson, The Transport Trust
Plural form: horse hauled stock
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by propulsion>
RT dandy car
RT dandy cart
horse path
On a horse powered railway, the path where the horse's walks between the
rails.
Warrant: Jim Rees, Beamish North of England Open Air Museum
Plural form: horse paths
CL Track and track components
BT walkway
horse railway
A railway on which trains are hauled by horses.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: horse railways
CL Railway types
BT animal powered railway
horse-shunting equipment
The tools and equipment used for shunting railway vehicles using horse
power.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: horse-shunting equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunting equipment
NT shunting chain
NT shunting collar
NT shunting strap
hot axlebox detector
Lineside equipment for detecting an overheated axlebox on a rail vehicle.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: hot axlebox detectors
CL Control and communications
BT <emergency detection equipment>
hound van
A specially designed vehicle for conveying hounds (dogs) for hunting.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: hound vans
UF dog box (vehicle)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <livestock carrying vehicles>
Howes valve gear
A steam locomotive radial valve gear incorporating a curved expansion link.
More usually referred to as Stephensons valve gear.
Warrant: Developments
in Locomotive Practice, Bowen Cooke, 1910
Plural form: Howes valve gear
USE Stephenson valve gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear
HST barrier coach
A vehicle used to enable HST stock to be coupled to a locomotive.
Warrant: Departmental Coaching Stock, Roger Butcher & Peter Fox, Platform 5
Publishing Ltd, 3rd edition, 1987
Plural form: HST barrier coaches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT barrier coach
HST cab
The driver's compartment of a High Speed Train.
Warrant: HSTs At Work,
R Ford & B Perren, Ian Allan Ltd, 1988
Plural form: HST cabs
USE High Speed Train cab
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT cab
Hugin machine
A machine which printed destination and fare details onto blank
station-of-origin cards.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: Hugin machines
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine
human prime mover
Any human moving (by propelling or pulling) a railway or tramway vehicle.
Warrant: Window, Freiburg Cathedral, Black Forest
Plural form: human prime movers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <animal motive power>
hump signal
A signal head containing a number of illuminated spectacles indicating the
position of sidings laying beyond the hump in shunting yards to enable the
driver of the propelling locomotive to control the movement of wagons over the
hump at the appropriate speed.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: hump signals
CL Control and communications
BT shunting signal
hydraulic buffer stop
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: hydraulic buffer stops
CL Track and track components
BT buffer stop
hydraulic drive
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: hydraulic drives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
hydraulic jack
A device for lifting heavy objects by means of oil under pressure.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: hydraulic jacks
CL Tools and equipment
BT jack
hydraulic transmission locomotive
A locomotive which transmits power from the engine to the bogies via a
hydraulic torque converter.
Warrant: Modern Railway Traction, Railway
Manufacturers Association, undated
Plural form: hydraulic transmission locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by transmission>
RT diesel hydraulic locomotive
hydrokinetic brake
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: hydrokinetic brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
hydrometer
An instrument for measuring the density of liquids.
Warrant: Oxford
English Dictionary
Plural form: hydrometers
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general operating tools and equipment>
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