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[Contents]
Pacific locomotive
A steam locomotive with a 4-6-2 wheel arrangement.
Warrant: Locomotive
Cyclopedia of American Practice, 13th Edition, 1947
Plural form: Pacific locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT six coupled locomotive
packing van
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of timber blocks and similar
materials required during heavy lifting operations at the scene of an accident,
etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: packing vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cranes and ancillary vehicles>
paddle
A tool made of wood or other insulating material that can be inserted
between the collector shoe of an electric train and the live rail to isolate
traction current in an emergency.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: paddles
USE shoe paddle
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
paid area
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: paid areas
CL Built works and components
BT <station rooms and spaces>
paint panel
A sample of corporate livery, usually a painted panel, often used for paint
matching.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: paint panels
USE livery sample
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <corporate identity>
paintshop tools and equipment
Items used in the area of a railway works designated for the painting of
locomotives and rolling stock.
Warrant: Crewe Works in the Age of Steam, E
Talbot, Oxford Publishing Company, 1986
Plural form: paintshop tools and equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT workshop equipment
NT coach painting equipment
pallet wagon
A railway vehicle designed for the carriage of palletised loads.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pallet wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load support and protection>
Palmer monorail
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: Palmer monorails
CL Railway types
BT monorail
Pandrol clip
The trade name for widely used flat bottom rail fastening spring steel clip
that clamps the rail to the baseplate fastened to the sleeper.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: Pandrol clips
CL Track and track components
BT rail clip (track fastening)
Pandrol insulator
An insulating pad placed between the chair and sleeper to insulate the rail
from electric current, manufactured by Pandrol.
Warrant: National Railway
Museum
Plural form: Pandrol insulators
CL Track and track components
BT rail clip (track fastening)
RT Not strictly a NT of rail clip. [SAH]
panel batten
A horizontal or vertical intermediate vehicle body frame member that
provides additional support for the body panels.
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: panel battens
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT side framing
pannier tank and tender locomotive
A locomotive with water tanks slung high up either side of the boiler in
addition to a separate water/fuel tender.
Warrant: Locomotives of the Great
Western Railway, Vol 4 six-wheeled Tender Engines, The Railway Correspondence
and Travel Society, 1956
Plural form: pannier tank and tender locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank and tender locomotive
RT pannier tank locomotive
pannier tank locomotive
A steam locomotive with its water tanks placed high up on both sides of the
boiler.
Warrant: Great Western Steam, W A Tuplin, George Allen & Unwin
Ltd, 1958
Plural form: pannier tank locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank locomotive
pannier tank (locomotive component)
A locomotive water tank placed high up on the side of the boiler.
Warrant: Great Western Steam, W A Tuplin, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1958
Plural form: pannier tanks (locomotive component)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive water tank
RT pannier tank locomotive
pantograph
A device on the roof of an electric locomotive or multiple unit through
which electric power is drawn from the overhead wires.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: pantographs
UF pantograph collector
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <overhead power collection components>
pantograph collector
An electricity collector that operates on the pantograph principle on
overhead power lines.
Warrant: Electric Locomotives and Railways, H
Greenly, no date p261
Plural form: pantograph collectors
USE pantograph
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <overhead power collection components>
pantograph horn
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: pantograph horns
UF horn (pantograph)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <overhead power collection components>
paper mill railway
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: paper mill railways
CL Railway types
BT factory railway
paper ticket
A paper form with blank spaces for entering fare, destination, etc; usually
made out by a booking clerk for destinations on another company's system.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: paper tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by form>
paraffin engined locomotive
A locomotive whose power source is derived by burning paraffin externally
or internally.
Warrant: Modern Railway Traction, Railway Manufacturers
Association, undated
Plural form: paraffin engined locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <electric ignition engined locomotives>
<parcel and freight traffic accounting>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <accounting records and equipment>
NT advice note
NT consignment bill
NT consignment note
NT goods invoice
NT goods waybill
NT left luggage receipt
NT luggage label
NT luggage label booklet
NT luggage waybill
NT parcel stamp
NT parcels label
NT parcels waybill
NT wagon label
NT waybill
NT waybill holder
parcel stamp
A self-adhesive label fixed to parcels being transported by rail to
indicate payment of the appropriate charge.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: parcel stamps
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
<parcels and mail handling structures>
Buildings and other structures connected with the operation of railway
parcels and postal services.
Plural form: <parcels and mail handling structures>
CL Built works and components
BT <transhipment structures>
NT mail exchange apparatus (lineside)
parcels label
A label attached to a parcel in transit to indicate destination, consignee
etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parcels labels
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
parcels train
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parcels trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger rated traffic train
parcels trolley
A small hand cart intended to transport parcels to and from the trains.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parcels trolleys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station trolleys and barrows>
parcels van
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of parcels and similar traffic.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parcels vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mail, parcels, etc. carrying vehicles>
parcels waybill
A label attached to a parcel in transit to indicate destination, consignee
etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parcels waybills
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
parking brake
The means by which an unattended or upowered vehicle can be secured against
unplanned movement.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor,
2000
Plural form: parking brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
NT spring applied parking brake
parking brake isolating cock
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parking brake isolating cocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake pipes, reservoirs, etc.>
parking ticket
A ticket issued for the parking of a road vehicle at the issuing station
whilst the owner undertakes a train journey.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parking tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT non-travel ticket
parliamentary carriage
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parliamentary carriages
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by class>
parliamentary ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: parliamentary tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by class>
parliamentary train
A train calling at all stations and providing covered accommodation for
passengers at a fare not exceeding than one old penny per mile and at a speed of
no less than 12 mph, under Gladstone's 1844 Regulation of Railways Act.
Warrant: The Victorian Railway, J Simmons, Thames & Hudson, 1990
Plural form: parliamentary trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger train
partially fitted train
A train in which only some wagons are fitted with continuous brakes.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: partially fitted trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by braking>
parting
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: partings
USE turnout
CL Track and track components
BT turnout
partition board
A board forming part of the partition separating individual compartments in
a railway carriage.
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: partition boards
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT partition component
partition component
A component forming part of the partition separating individual
compartments in a railway carriage.
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: partition components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <basic structural components>
NT partition board
RT partition floor bearer
RT partition roof stick
partition floor bearer
A transverse member supporting a vehicle floor and compartment partition.
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: partition floor bearers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bottom framing
RT partition component
partition roof stick
A curved horizontal rail serving both as a transverse roof support and as a
support for the top of the partition between compartments.
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: partition roof sticks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof stick
pass
A railway ticket or other device permitting the holder to travel (usually
without charge or at a concessionary fare).
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: passes
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <permits>
NT directors pass
NT free pass
<passenger and staff facility components>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <passenger and staff facility components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bodywork component
NT matchstriker
NT <luggage storage components>
NT <vehicle safety barriers>
NT <vehicle seating>
passenger brake van
A brake van designed for use on passenger trains.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: passenger brake vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT brake van
passenger brake van (with passenger accommodation)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger brake vans (with passenger accommodation)
UF brake coach
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
passenger carriage
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger carriages
UF car (railway vehicle)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load or function>
NT <passenger carriages by class>
NT <passenger carriages by function>
NT <passenger carriages by haulage>
NT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
NT <passenger carriages by wheel arrangement>
<passenger carriages by class>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <passenger carriages by class>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger carriage
NT composite carriage
NT first class carriage
NT nondescript (carriage)
NT parliamentary carriage
NT second class carriage
NT third class carriage
NT unclassified carriage
<passenger carriages by function>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <passenger carriages by functions>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger carriage
NT ambulance car
NT buffet car
NT club car
NT dining car
NT invalid saloon
NT kitchen car
NT observation car
NT private saloon
NT royal carriage
NT sleeping car
NT sleeping saloon
NT tavern car
NT VIP saloon (Inter-city)
<passenger carriages by haulage>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <passenger carriages by haulage>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger carriage
NT dandy car
<passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger carriage
NT compartment carriage
NT corridor carriage
NT coupe (carriage)
NT double deck carriage
NT driving car
NT gangwayed carriage
NT lavatory equipped carriage
NT luggage van (with passenger accommodation)
NT open carriage
NT passenger brake van (with passenger accommodation)
NT saloon carriage
NT semi-gangwayed carriage
<passenger carriages by wheel arrangement>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <passenger carriages by wheel arrangements>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger carriage
NT articulated carriage
NT bogie carriage
NT eight wheel carriage (non bogie)
NT four wheel carriage
NT six wheel carriage
passenger close
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger closes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
passenger communication brake valve
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger communication brake valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake controls>
RT <train staff/passenger communication>
passenger communication cord
An early means of passenger alarm communication with driver and guard.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger communication cords
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger emergency communication
passenger communication valve (air)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger communication valves (air)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake controls>
passenger communications valve (vacuum)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger communications valves (Vacuum)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake controls>
RT <on-train communications equipment>
passenger emergency alarm
A system provided for the passengers to communicate to the Train Operator
that an emergency situation is present on the train.
Warrant: LUL Jargon
Buster
Plural form: passenger emergency alarms
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger emergency communication
passenger emergency communication
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger emergency communications
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <on-train communications equipment>
NT mayday alarm control
NT mayday alarm indicator
NT passenger communication cord
NT passenger emergency alarm
RT automatic brake
passenger line
A line signalled to the standard required for trains conveying passengers.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British
Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: passenger lines
CL Track and track components
BT <running lines by type of train>
passenger locomotive
A locomotive designed for the haulage of passenger trains. Usually fitted
with continuous brakes.
Warrant: Modern Locomotive Design Bowen Cooke 1910
Plural form: passenger locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by intended load>
passenger open
A system that allows a passenger to open the door(s) in a doorway by
operation of a local push - button.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: passenger opens
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
passenger open transmission
A means of carrying electrical signals from the carbody to the door leaf
mounted 'passenger open' push button switch.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: passenger open transmission
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <secondary electrical circuitry>
passenger railway
A railway that conveys passengers, for whatever purpose.
Warrant:
Planning Passenger Railways, N G Harris & E W Godward, Transport Publishing
Company Ltd., 1992
Plural form: passenger railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways by principal traffic>
NT leisure railway
passenger rated traffic train
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger rated traffic trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT non-passenger train
NT bullion train
NT exhibition train
NT livestock train
NT mail train (not conveying passengers)
NT parcels train
NT perishable traffic train
passenger talkback control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger talkback controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <train staff/passenger communication>
passenger talkback indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger talkback indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <train staff/passenger communication>
passenger timetable
A document showing the times of scheduled passenger train departures and
arrivals at stations.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger timetables
USE public timetable
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
RT working timetable
<passenger traffic accounting>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <passenger traffic accounting>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <accounting records and equipment>
NT coach waybill
NT <permits>
NT <reservation markers>
NT <ticket inspection equipment>
NT <ticket printing equipment>
NT <ticket selling equipment>
passenger train
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: passenger trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by load/function>
NT ambulance train
NT boat train
NT excursion train
NT mail train (conveying passengers)
NT mixed train
NT parliamentary train
NT Q train
NT royal train
NT staff train
NT troop train
NT workmans train
passimeter
A free-standing kiosk in the ticket hall of a station, designed to combine
facilities for issuing tickets on entry and checking them on exit and equipped
with turnstiles operated by the booking clerk.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: passimeters
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
patrolmans lockout device
A device that puts the signals to danger to protect personnel working in an
area from which there is no accessible safe refuge.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: patrolmans lockout devices
CL Control and communications
BT <occupation protection equipment>
patrolmans vehicle
A railway vehicle used by lengthmen to patrol their length.
Warrant:
On-track plant on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd,
4th edition, 1981
Plural form: patrolmans vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <personnel transport>
pay advice
A document confirming the amount of wage or salary and the value of
deductions made.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pay advices
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll documentation>
pay check
An engraved or embossed metal token used to establish identity when
collecting a pay packet.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pay checks
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll hardware>
pay check board
A display board for storage of pay checks.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pay check boards
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll hardware>
pay envelope
An envelope, often perforated, that is used to make cash payments to
employees.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pay envelopes
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll hardware>
pay records rack
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pay records racks
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll hardware>
pay through and recharge form
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pay through and recharge forms
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <unattributed>
pay ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pay tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll documentation>
pay tin
A storage device (usually metal) into which an employee's wages would be
dispensed to await collection. Often bears the employee's name or number or
occupation.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pay tins
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll hardware>
paybill deductions form
An authority, signed by the employee, for their employer to make certain
deductions from their pay.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: paybill deductions forms
USE deduction mandate
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll documentation>
payroll advice
A document confirming the amount of wage or salary and the value of
deductions made.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: payroll advices
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll documentation>
<payroll documentation>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <payroll documentation>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll records and equipment>
NT clock card
NT deduction mandate
NT leaving notice
NT pay advice
NT pay ticket
NT payroll advice
NT time card
NT time sheet
<payroll hardware>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <payroll hardware>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll records and equipment>
NT pay check
NT pay check board
NT pay envelope
NT pay records rack
NT pay tin
NT wages bag
NT <employee timekeeping hardware>
<payroll records and equipment>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <payroll records and equipment>
CL Commercial records and equipment
NT <payroll documentation>
NT <payroll hardware>
NT <personnel records>
PCT
A lightweight on-track machine which gives full protection to welds being
formed using the thermit welding process and provides in one unit all the
facilities, equipment and materials needed for the rapid production of welds.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5
Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p13
Plural form: PCTs
USE powered canopy trolley
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
peat railway
Scope note required.
Warrant: Locomotives & Railcars of Bord na
Mona, S Johnson, Midland Publishing Ltd, 1996
Plural form: peat railways
CL Railway types
BT mineral railway
pedestrian crossing
A level crossing used solely by pedestrians (e.g. where a public footpath
crosses the line and no footbridge or underpass is provided).
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: pedestrian crossings
CL Control and communications
BT <level crossings by type>
pedigree cattle wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of pedigree cattle.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pedigree cattle wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT cattle wagon
perishable traffic train
A train conveying foodstuffs such as fish and vegetables requiring high
speed delivery to prevent the load spoiling.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National
Railway Museum
Plural form: perishable traffic trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger rated traffic train
NT fish train
NT milk train
permanent speed restriction sign
A sign showing the normal speed restriction for the operation of trains
over a section of line.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway
Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: permanent speed restriction signs
CL Control and communications
BT <trackside indicators>
NT warning indicator
permanent steam tender
Scope note required.
Warrant: Articulated Locomotives, L Wiener, 1930
Plural form: permanent steam tenders
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT steam tender
NT Baldeyrou and Verpilleux system
NT Lartigue monorail steam tender
NT Poultney system locomotive
NT Sturrock steam tender locomotive
NT Urbans steam tender
NT Verpilleux system steam tender
RT articulated locomotive
permanent way
The track structure which includes rails, sleepers and ballast.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: permanent way
CL Track and track components
BT <track by permanence>
permanent way callipers
A pair of hinged arms for measuring small distances (e.g. rail web
thickness).
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: permanent way callipers
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
permanent way component
Any part or component of the trackbed or railway track.
Warrant:
National Railway Museum
Plural form: permanent way components
USE track component
CL Track and track components
permanent way gauge
A tool for measuring the profile of a rail, rail key, fishplate or other
permanent way component.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: permanent way gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
NT rail gauge
NT spike hole gauge
NT standard length gauge
permanent way hammer
A special large headed hammer used for knocking rail keys into place
between the rail and the rail chair.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: permanent way hammers
CL Tools and equipment
BT gangers equipment
permanent way 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: permanent way huts
UF gangers hut
CL Built works and components
BT <route maintenance structures>
<permanent way manufacturing tools and equipment>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <permanent way manufacturing tools and equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <permanent way tools and equipment>
NT rail chair pattern
<permanent way tools and equipment>
All the tools and equipment used by railway employees working on the
construction, operation and maintenance of the permanent way. Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: <permanent way tools and equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway manufacturing and maintenance equipment>
NT civil engineering equipment
NT gangers equipment
NT surveying equipment
NT track laying equipment
NT track testing equipment
NT <permanent way manufacturing tools and equipment>
NT <track cleaning, greasing and adhesion equipment>
NT <track workers safety equipment>
permanent way works
A factory for the production of railway permanent way materials and
fabricated products.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: permanent way works
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair complexes>
permanent-wire control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: permanent-wire controls
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
<permits>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <permits>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <passenger traffic accounting>
NT book of ticket stubs
NT book of tickets
NT fare token
NT pass
NT property permit
NT ticket
NT token (passengers pass)
NT travel permit
NT travel warrant
NT <ticket accessories>
<personnel accommodation>
Railway vehicles used as mobile mess and dormitory accommodation for
railway employees.
Plural form: <personnel accommodation>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <personnel transport and accommodation>
NT dormitory coach
NT mess van
NT staff and dormitory Portakabin vehicle
NT staff changing coach
NT staff coach
personnel carrier
A railway vehicle used to transport track maintenance employees to the work
site.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: personnel carriers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <personnel transport>
<personnel records>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <personnel records>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll records and equipment>
NT staff appointment form
<personnel transport and accommodation>
Railway vehicles providing mobile mess and/or dormitory accommodation.
Plural form: <personnel transport and accommodation>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <service vehicles and on-track plant>
NT directors saloon
NT engineers saloon
NT inspection vehicle
NT officers saloon
NT <personnel accommodation>
NT <personnel transport>
<personnel transport>
Railway vehicles used as to transport track maintenance employees to the
work site, etc.
Plural form: <personnel transport>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <personnel transport and accommodation>
NT engineers trolley
NT patrolmans vehicle
NT personnel carrier
NT quadricycle
NT tricycle (railway)
petrol locomotive
An internal combustion driven locomotive powered by burning petrol.
Warrant: The Oxford Companion to British Railway History, Jack Simmons &
Gordon Biddle (eds.), Oxford University Press, 1997 p527
Plural form: petrol locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <electric ignition engined locomotives>
pick up coil
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pick up coils
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
pickaxe
Heavy iron tool with a point at one end and a wooden handle at right angles
to it for breaking up heavy ground etc.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: pickaxes
CL Tools and equipment
BT gangers equipment
pick-up goods train
A freight train that stops at all or most of the goods yards and sidings
along its route to pick up or set down wagons.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pick-up goods trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by frequency of stops>
pick-up shoe
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pick-up shoes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
piece van wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of horse drawn vans.
Warrant: Lancashire & Yorkshire Wagons Volume One, Noel Coates, Wild Swan
Publications, 1990 p116
Plural form: piece van wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT furniture van truck
pier railway
A leisure railway for conveying passengers to the end of a seaside pier.
For railways conveying passengers or goods along a mooring pier for the purposes
of embarking on vessels moored alongside, see harbour or dock railways.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pier railways
CL Railway types
BT seaside railway
RT miniature railway
RT harbour railway
RT dock railway
pig iron wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of pig iron.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: pig iron wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steel carrying vehicles>
pigeon van
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of racing pigeons.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pigeon vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <livestock carrying vehicles>
pigtail
The lead on a dc electric locomotive or motor coach which connects the
collector shoe to the power cable.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: pigtails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
pilotmans armband
A band worn on the arm of a pilotman to signify his rank and duties.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pilotmans armbands
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
pinch bar
A stout metal bar used for moving wagons, locomotives, etc. by leverage
between rail and wheel rim.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pinch bars
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
pipe wagon
A special wagon for carrying pipes, with fixed ends and the sides
consisting of two drop doors with a removable stanchion between.
Warrant:
An Illustrated History of BR Wagons, Volume 1, Paul Bartlett, David Larkin,
Trevor Mann, Roger Silsbury & Andrew Ward, Oxford Publishing Company, 1985
Plural form: pipe wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steel carrying vehicles>
piped vehicle
A vehicle without automatic brake apparatus but with a through pipe or
pipes to enable the automatic brake on adjacent vehicles to be operative.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: piped vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braked vehicle
piston
The disc-shaped or cylindrical assembly that, from or against pressure,
moves back and forth inside the cylinders of a steam locomotive.
Warrant:
Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: pistons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
<piston driven steam locomotives>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <piston driven steam locomotives>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by energy conversion>
NT compound locomotive
NT horizontally opposed cylinder locomotive
NT inside cylinder locomotive
NT outside cylinder locomotive
NT uniflow locomotive
piston gland stuffing box
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: piston gland stuffing boxes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
piston rod
The rod connecting the piston to the crosshead at the rear of the cylinder.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue &
Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: piston rods
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
piston valve
An inside or outside admission steam distribution valve with two piston
heads spaced on a spindle and fitted with rings to maintain steam tightness.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue &
Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: piston valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
piston valve guide (tail rod)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: piston (tail rod) valve guides
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
pitch
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pitches
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
pitch wagon
An open general merchandise wagon developed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway in 1884, which gained the codename 'pitch'. It featured one opening (or
tip) end rather than having both fixed. Unlike most end discharge vehicles, it
was not primarily intended for mineral traffic.
Warrant: Lancashire &
Yorkshire Wagons Volume One, Noel Coates, Wild Swan Publications, 1990 p143
Plural form: pitch wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT end door vehicle
pivot block assembly and bush
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pivot block assemblies and bushes
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
pivot light
A light that is common to both on and off aspects of a position light
signal.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the
British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: pivot lights
CL Control and communications
BT signal lamp
pivot pin (truck)
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: pivot pins (truck)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <bogie and truck components>
pivoting single bolster wagon
A short wagon fitted with a rotating load bearing bolster, intended to work
with one or more similar wagons to carry long loads.
Warrant: Wagons on the
LNER - North British, John Hooper, Irwell Press, 1991 p25
Plural form: pivoting single bolster wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT single bolster wagon
planking
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: plankings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <body side components>
plate frame
A locomotive frame cut from a solid iron or steel plate.
Warrant:
Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co
Ltd, 1952
Plural form: plate frames
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive frame
plate rail
Rails consisting of flanged plates of L-section iron used to form a
tramroad.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: plate rails
CL Track and track components
BT <wheel supports and guides>
NT edge plate hybrid rail
NT gulley rail
NT gully rail
NT tram plate rail
plate wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of iron and steel plates.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: plate wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steel carrying vehicles>
NT armour plate wagon
NT trestle plate wagon
platelayers trolley
A lightweight railway vehicle for the use of track maintenance staff. May
be pushed by hand, manually propelled through a lever and crank system or
self-propelled by an internal conmbustion engine.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: platelayers trolleys
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for permanent way materials>
NT engineers trailer
NT self-propelled platelayers trolley
plateway
A form of tramroad in which the sideways movement of vehicles wa not
restrained by wheel flanges but by vertical falnges oof the plate rails.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: plateways
CL Railway types
BT <railways by form>
NT dramroad
NT tramroad
plateway track
Track laid with plate rails.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: plateway tracks
CL Track and track components
BT <track by rail type>
platform
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platforms
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
NT bay platform
NT cattle dock
NT end loading dock
NT end loading ramp
NT island platform
NT terminal platform
platform barrier
Barrier at the entrance to a platform where tickets are checked.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: platform barriers
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
platform barrier gate
An opening in the barrier to the platform where tickets are checked.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: platform barrier gates
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
platform barrow
A wheeled hand cart for transporting luggage, goods and equipment along
station platforms.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platform barrows
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station trolleys and barrows>
platform bench
A seat provided on the platform for the use of travellers.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: platform benches
CL Built works and components
BT station bench
platform close switch
An externally mounted push button used to close the saloon sliding doors on
an individual car side basis.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: platform close switches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
platform destination board
A sign on the station platform identifying destinations of the trains
departing from that platform.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platform destination boards
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
platform door interlock cut-out
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platform door interlock cut-outs
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
platform doors closed indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platform doors closed indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
platform edging
The
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platform edgings
CL Built works and components
BT <station structure components>
platform finger board
A directional sign shaped like a pointing finger, found on stations and
station platforms.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: platform finger boards
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
platform hanging lamp
A lamp hung from the station roof or canopy for the purpose of illuminating
the platform area. Whilst this term can be used for naming purposes, for
indexing it would be better to factor the term as platform lamp + hanging lamp.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: platform hanging lamps
UF station platform hanging lamp
CL Built works and components
BT platform lamp
platform indicator
An electrical indicator denoting the occupation of a platform line in a
station.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway
Museum
Plural form: platform indicators
CL Control and communications
BT section indicator
platform information board
A notice board on the platform on which information for passengers is
provided.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: platform information boards
CL Built works and components
BT departure indicator
platform lamp
A lamp provided for the illumination of the platform area.
Warrant:
Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: platform lamps
UF station platform lamp
CL Built works and components
BT <fixed lighting by usage>
NT platform hanging lamp
NT station platform wall lamp
platform monitor
A visual display screen situated on the platform showing the departure
times of trains.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: platform monitors
CL Built works and components
BT <surveillance equipment>
platform notice
A sign or notice used to provide information or warnings on railway
platforms.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: platform notices
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
platform railing
Barrier at the entrance to a platform where tickets are checked.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: platform railings
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
<platform roads>
Lines running adjacent to platforms.
Plural form: <platform roads>
CL Track and track components
BT line (track)
NT bay line
platform screen door
Doors placed along a platfrom edge to separate passengers from the exposed
railway, usually only used in underground passenger railways.
Warrant:
Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: platform screen doors
CL Built works and components
BT <station structure components>
platform shelter
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platform shelters
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
RT shelter
platform sign
Any information sign or warning notice situated on a station platform.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: platform signs
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
platform starting signal
A stop signal at or near the departure end of a station platform.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British
Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: platform starting signals
CL Control and communications
BT starting signal
platform station sign
A sign on a station platform denoting the name of the station.
Warrant: Railway Relics and Regalia, Ed P Whitehouse, Country Life, 1975
Plural form: platform station signs
CL Built works and components
BT <station signage>
platform ticket
A ticket allowing the holder to pass through a ticket barrier onto the
platform, but not to travel.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: platform tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT non-travel ticket
platform ticket machine
A free-standing, or wall-mounted, coin operated machine for the unattended
sale of platform tickets.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platform ticket machines
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine
platform tractor
A car, often battery driven, designed to tow parcels trolleys along
platform.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: platform tractors
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station tools and equipment>
platform view mirror
A mirror provided on a station platform to enable the drive to see the
guard where the view is noramlly obscured.
Warrant: Railway Terminology
Working Group
Plural form: platform view mirrors
CL Built works and components
BT <surveillance equipment>
platform wall lamp
A wall mounted lamp for the purpose of illuminating the platform area.
Whilst this term can be used for naming purposes, for indexing it would be
better to factor the term as platform lamp + wall lamp.
Warrant: Railway
Terminology Working Group
Plural form: platform wall lamps
USE station platform wall lamp
CL Built works and components
BT platform lamp
pleasure party ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pleasure party tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type or age of traveller>
plough brake
A goods brake van provided with plough ends for use in a Permanent Way
Department train, to spread newly discharged ballast on the track.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: plough brakes
USE ballast plough brake van
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
plunger
A button that is depressed to activate signalling equipment.
Warrant:
The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles,
Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: plungers
CL Control and communications
BT <non-specific control equipment>
NT bell plunger
RT firemans call plunger
RT right away plunger
RT bell plunger
RT train ready to start plunger
RT ready to start plunger
pneumatic ballast injection machine
An on-track machine used for pneumatically injecting a measured quantity of
ballast under the sleepers and compacting the trackbed.
Warrant: On-track
plant on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th
edition, 1981, p30
Plural form: pneumatic ballast injection machines
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
pneumatic buffer stop
A buffer stop using air cushioning to decrease the effect of impact,
usually used at main line termini.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: pneumatic buffer stops
CL Track and track components
BT buffer stop
pneumatic door operator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pneumatic door operators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
pneumatic relay assembly
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pneumatic relay assemblies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <pneumatic valves, gauges, etc.>
<pneumatic system infrastructure>
General purpose air pumps, reservoirs and main line pipes that serve a
range of on-train pneumatic systems, not just brakes. For pumps and pipes
exclusively for brake operation, see 'braking system component'.
Plural form: <pneumatic system infrastructure>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT running gear
NT <air pipes, reservoirs, etc.>
NT <air pumps, etc.>
NT <pneumatic valves, gauges, etc.>
<pneumatic transmission>
Equipment that transmits control from the control point to the equipment to
be actuated via air pressure. Includes pneumatic equipment used in
electro-pneumatic signalling systems.
Plural form: <pneumatic transmission>
CL Control and communications
BT <control transmission>
NT donkey compressor (signalling)
<pneumatic valves, gauges, etc.>
Valves, gauges, etc. connected to general purpose air lines, etc. that
serve a range of on-train pneumatic systems, not just brakes. For valves and
gauges exclusively for brake operation, see 'braking system component','<brake
pipes, reservoirs, etc>' and '<brake controls>'.
Plural form: <pneumatic valves, gauges, etc.>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <pneumatic system infrastructure>
NT main line pressure switch isolating
NT main line pressure switch test
NT pneumatic relay assembly
pneumatic wiper
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pneumatic wipers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT cab component
pocket watch
A timepiece carried in the pocket of railway staff to ensure that they
perform their duties in accordance with the railway timetable.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: pocket watches
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general tools and equipment>
<point and signal actuation>
The means by which points and signals are operated.
Plural form: <point and signal actuation>
CL Control and communications
BT <signalling>
NT <central control>
NT <control transmission>
NT <local control>
NT <mechanical protection>
point chair
A chair designed to support the nose and wing rails of a crossing.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth &
J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p174
Plural form: point chairs
CL Track and track components
BT crossing chair
point clamp
A mechanical device for ensuring the correct interface of the point blade
and stock rail.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National
Railway Museum
Plural form: point clamps
CL Control and communications
BT <point locking equipment>
<point detection, etc.>
Equipment remote from the control centre that detects the actual setting of
points to protect trains from accident if the points are not fully over or due
to equipment failure are not set as indicated by the lever position in the
control centre.
Plural form: <point detection, etc.>
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical protection>
NT point detector
NT supplementary detector
point detector
A device for proving that points are correctly set, allowing a clear signal
to be given for a train to pass over them.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary,
An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: point detectors
CL Control and communications
BT <point detection, etc.>
point end
One pair of switch rails in a set of points.
Warrant: The History &
Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National
Railway Museum
Plural form: point ends
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
RT switch (track sub-assembly)
point handle
A handle for operating a failed point motor in an emergency.
Warrant:
The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles,
Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: point handles
CL Control and communications
BT point lever (trackside)
point heater
An electric or gas heater to melt snow and ice that might otherwise impede
correct operation of points.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: point heaters
CL Track and track components
BT <track maintenance assemblies>
point leg
Full section point rail ends behind the nose in a crossing assembly.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth &
J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p174
Plural form: point legs
CL Track and track components
BT crossing leg
point lever (frame)
A lever in a signalbox or ground frame that operates points.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: point levers (frame)
CL Control and communications
BT frame lever
RT point lever (trackside)
point lever (trackside)
A lever used for operating points from a point immediately adjacent (as
distinct from a central lever frame).
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: point levers (trackside)
CL Control and communications
BT <local control>
NT point handle
NT Summerson lever
NT throwover
RT point lever (frame)
<point locking equipment>
Equipment that locks points in position to prevent them being moved whilst
a train is passing.
Plural form: <point locking equipment>
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical protection>
NT clamp lock
NT clamp (point)
NT clamplock heater
NT facing point lock
NT point clamp
NT points clip
NT rail points clamp
point machine
An apparatus which changes the position of the points by use of compressed
air or electric power. Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: point machines
USE point motor
CL Control and communications
BT <electrical transmission>
point motor
An apparatus which changes the position of the points by use of compressed
air or electric power.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: point motors
UF point machine
CL Control and communications
BT <electrical transmission>
point rail
Rail which forms a vee with the splice rail in a common crossing, or the
machined rail forming a nose in an obtuse crossing.
Warrant: LUL Jargon
Buster Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, C L
Heeler (Ed), The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979 pp99, 100 &
106
Plural form: point rails
CL Track and track components
BT crossing vee
point rod bell crank
A pivoting component with two arms set at rightangles used to change the
direction of movement of point rodding through ninety degrees.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: point rod bell cranks
UF bell crank
CL Control and communications
BT <rod transmission>
point rod reversing linkage
A baseplate carrying two adjacent bell cranks joined by a short link, used
to reverse the direction of movement of a point rod and to compensate for
thermal expansion the rodding.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: point rod reversing linkages
CL Control and communications
BT <rod transmission>
point rodding
The rodding, either round or of channel section, which mechanically
connects the operating lever to the points.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: point rodding
CL Control and communications
BT <rod transmission>
point (track sub-assembly)
The items of permanent way which may be aligned to one of two positions
according to the direction of train movement required.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: points (track sub-assembly)
USE switch (track sub-assembly)
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
pointer
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: pointers
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
