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kettle
A lineside boiler for filling early locomotive boilers directly with hot water.
Warrant: Original drawing in Northumberland Record Office
Plural form: kettles

CL Built works and components
BT <motive power stabling and servicing structures>

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key profile
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: key profiles

CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment

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key token
A type of token used for single line electric token block working.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: key tokens

CL Control and communications
BT block token

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key (rail support)
A block of wood or steel driven in between bullhead rail and chair to make the rail secure in its chair.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: keys (rail supports)

USE rail key
CL Track and track components
BT <rail fastenings>

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keying hammer
A special large headed hammer used for knocking rail keys into place between the rail and the rail chair.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: keying hammers

CL Tools and equipment
BT gangers equipment

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king lever
A lever in a signalbox which cuts out the box and allows its signals and points to be worked remotely from another box or to fucntion automaticllay via track circuits.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: king levers

CL Control and communications
BT frame lever

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kip
A hump at the top of a rope-hauled railway system to prevent vehicles accidentally running back down the incline. Also an incline on which wagons are assembled to be run off by gravity as required, usually at a colliery to feed a loading point.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: kips

CL Track and track components
BT <track areas by function>

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kitchen car
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: kitchen cars

CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by function>

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Kitson wheel
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: Kitson wheels

CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT disc wheel

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Klug valve gear
Scope note required.
Warrant: Orenstein and Koppel publicity material
Plural form: Klug valve gear

CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear

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knife switch
A power isolating switch.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: knife switches

CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <ancillary electrical equipment>

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knob (handrail)
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: knobs (handrail)

USE handrail knob
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <foot and hand holds>

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Kylchap blast pipe
A multiple jet blast pipe for steam locomotives invented by the engineers Kylala and Chapelon.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: Kylchap blast pipes

CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT blast pipe

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