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[Contents]
R door
A hinged connecting door between vehicle saloons on London underground
stock.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: R doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door
<rack adhesion components>
Components forming or supporting the central rail with regular teeth or
indentations with which a gear or cog wheel intermeshes on a mountain railway
system.
Plural form: <rack adhesion components>
CL Track and track components
BT track component
NT rack rail
NT rack (adhesion device)
RT rack railway
rack driving wheel
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rack driving wheels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive driving wheel
NT Blenkinsop rack wheel
rack locomotive
A locomotive which is designed to engage with a specially designed track
featuring arrangements of steel teeth set continuously along the track to engage
driven pinion wheels or cogs under the locomotive
Warrant: The Snowdon
Mountain Railway, K Turner, David & Charles, 1973
Plural form: rack locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by adhesion method>
NT Abt rack locomotive
NT Blenkinsop system locomotive
NT Fell system locomotive
NT Locher system locomotive
NT Mallet combined rack and adhesion locomotive
NT Wetli system locomotive
RT mountain locomotive (environment)
rack rail
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rack rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rack adhesion components>
NT Blenkinsop rack rail
rack railway
A line using a mechanical system with an arrangement of metal teeth set
continuously along the track to engage pinion wheels of cogs to enable trains to
climb steep gradients.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: rack railways
CL Railway types
BT <self-propelled railways by adhesion method>
rack (adhesion device)
A central rail with regular teeth or indentations with which a gear or cog
wheel intermeshes on a mountain railway system.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: racks (adhesion devices)
CL Track and track components
BT <rack adhesion components>
RT rack railway
radial axle
Axle and wheel set which is able to move within a fixed radius in a
horizontal plane.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: radial axles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT wheel set
RT axle
<radio communication>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <radio communication>
CL Control and communications
BT <communications>
NT train radio
<radio control equipment>
Equipment used in the block working system whereby train movements through
'block sections' are controlled using radio communication between signalman and
driver.
Plural form: <radio control equipment>
CL Control and communications
BT <block system working>
NT <radio electronic token block equipment>
<radio electronic token block equipment>
Components of a signalling system used mainly on single lines, where an
electronic token is transmitted between the controlling signal box and train.
Plural form: <radio electronic token block equipment>
CL Control and communications
BT <radio control equipment>
NT range multiplier
radius rod
The component of Walchaerts valve gear which links the expansion link with
the combination lever. Reversing of the locomotive is effected by raising or
lowering the rod.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: radius rods
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear component
rail
A wooden or metal bar or continuous line of bars along the ground usually
as one of two forming a railway track.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: rails
CL Track and track components
BT <wheel supports and guides>
NT <rails by condition>
NT <rails by form>
NT <rails by function>
NT <rails by installation>
NT <rails by material>
NT <rails by treatment>
rail anchor
A fastening attached to the foot of the running rail and bearing against
the side of a chair or sleeper to resist longitudinal movement of the rail (rail
creep).
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: rail anchors
CL Track and track components
BT <rail fastenings>
rail and fishplate profile
A gauge for measuring the profile of both the rail and the fishplate.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail and fishplate profiles
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail and fishplate profile set
A set of gauges for measuring the profiles of both the rail and the
fishplate.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail and fishplate profile sets
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail and material mover
Scope note required.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways,
Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p13
Plural form: rail and material movers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
rail and river ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail and river tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type of journey>
rail and road ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail and road tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type of journey>
rail and sea ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail and sea tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type of journey>
rail baseplate
A flat plate fixed directly to the railway sleeper, with a recess in which
the flat-bottomed rail sits.A metal casting which supports and holds a flat
bottom rail on a sleeper.
Warrant: Gordon Reed, Permanent Way Institution
Plural form: rail baseplates
UF base plate (track)
UF baseplate (rail)
CL Track and track components
BT <rail supports>
RT combined chair and baseplate
rail bearing plate profile
A gauge for measuring the profile of the rail bearing plate.
Warrant:
National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail bearing plate profiles
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail bolt hole gauge
A gauge for measuring the size of rail bolt holes.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: rail bolt hole gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail bus
A lightweight low-capacity diesel or petrol railcar with bus or bus-type
body, usually on four wheels, used for passenger services on branch and other
lightly-trafficked lines.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: rail buses
USE railbus
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT single unit stock
rail camber gauge
A gauge for checking and measuring the amount the track is out of cross
level, and also cant on curves.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design,
Construction and Maintenance, D H Coombs (Ed), The Permanent Way Institution,
4th Edition, 1971
Plural form: rail camber gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail car
A passenger carrying car running singly or with others, propelled by an
integral light steam, petrol or diesel engine or by electric traction.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: rail cars
USE railcar
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT single unit stock
rail card
A document showing the entitlement of the holder to use some form of
concessionary ticket. E.g. Student rail card.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail cards
UF railcard
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by number of journeys>
rail chair
A metal casting which retains bullhead rail on wooden sleepers.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: rail chairs
UF chair (rail support)
UF rail chair casting
CL Track and track components
BT <rail supports>
NT bridge chair
NT check chair
NT collar chair
NT common chair
NT crossing chair
NT crossing neck chair
NT switch blade chair
NT switch heel chair
NT switch slide chair
NT turnout chair
rail chair casting
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail chair castings
USE rail chair
CL Track and track components
BT <rail supports>
rail chair pattern
A pattern used when casting rail chairs.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail chair patterns
CL Tools and equipment
BT <permanent way manufacturing tools and equipment>
rail changer (vehicle)
Scope note required.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways,
Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p47
Plural form: rail changers (vehicles)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
rail circuit
Train detection equipment using the rails in an electric circuit, which
detects the presence of a train (as opposed to its absence).
Warrant: The
History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of
the National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail circuits
USE track circuit
CL Control and communications
BT <track circuiting>
rail clamp
A heavy duty G clamp for securing a pair of fishplates to a cracked rail,
thus effecting a temporary repair to allow trains to pass at restricted speed
until such time as a permanent repair can be made.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: rail clamps
CL Track and track components
BT rail joint component
rail cleaner (vehicle)
An on-track machine used for cleaning the railhead.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: rail cleaners (vehicles)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
rail clip gauge
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail clip gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail clip (surveying instrument)
A wooden surveying instrument to enable accurate measurements to be related
back to the running edge of the rail.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: rail clips (surveying instruments)
USE littleboy
CL Tools and equipment
BT surveying equipment
rail clip (track fastening)
A spring clip used to hold flat bottomed rail to the baseplates.
Warrant: Thomas W Ward's Rail and Rail Accessories Catalogue, 1960
Plural form: rail clips (track fastenings)
UF clip (rail)
CL Track and track components
BT <rail fastenings>
NT Mills C3R clip fastening
NT Pandrol clip
NT Pandrol insulator
rail curve gauge
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail curve gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail drill
A tool for drilling holes in piece of rail which clamps to the rail to
ensure accurate alignment.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares,
Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: rail drills
CL Tools and equipment
BT track laying equipment
<rail fastenings>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rail fastenings>
CL Track and track components
BT track fastening
NT rail anchor
NT rail clip (track fastening)
NT rail key
NT rail spike
rail gauge
A tool for measuring the profile of the rail.
Warrant: Uniform Railway
Gauge, E Harding, Lothian Publishing Company Pty. Ltd., 1958
Plural form: rail gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT permanent way gauge
rail grinder (vehicle)
A vehicle equipped with the means of smoothing out imperfections and
irregularities in rail surfaces, usually by means of carborundum blocks.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5
Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p48
Plural form: rail grinders (vehicles)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
rail grinding train
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail grinding trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT service train
rail heel block profile
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail heel block profiles
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail holing gauge
A gauge for measuring the size of rail bolt holes.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: rail holing gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail ice scraper
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail ice scrapers
CL Tools and equipment
BT gangers equipment
rail joint
A track sub-assembly for joining two lengths of rail whilst allowing for
expansion.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: rail joints
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
NT adjustment switch
NT insulated block joint
NT insulated rail joint
NT shop-made joint
rail joint component
Components that join the ends of the rails to each other.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: rail joint components
CL Track and track components
BT track component
NT expansion gap
NT fish bolt
NT fishplate
NT fishplate insulator
NT rail clamp
NT rail joint insulator
rail joint insulator
A non-electrically conducting preformed liner for fitting to a fishplate at
an insulated joint.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail joint insulators
CL Track and track components
BT rail joint component
rail key
Key hammered in between the rail and chair to hold the rail firm in the
chair.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail keys
UF key (rail support)
UF wedge (rail key)
CL Track and track components
BT <rail fastenings>
NT Barlows fastener
NT steel key
NT wood key
rail key gauge
Gauge for measuring the profile of rail keys.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: rail key gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail key profile
A tool for measuring the profile of rail keys.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: rail key profiles
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail level transfer gauge
A gauge for checking and measuring the amount the track is out of cross
level, and also cant on curves.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design,
Construction and Maintenance, D H Coombs (Ed), The Permanent Way Institution,
4th Edition, 1971
Plural form: rail level transfer gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail pad
A cushioning pad placed between the chair and sleeper, may be used to
insulate the rail from electric current.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail pads
CL Track and track components
BT <rail supports>
rail plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail plates
CL Track and track components
BT <unidentified track>
rail points 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: rail points clamps
CL Control and communications
BT <point locking equipment>
rail profile
A thin section of rail used for checking the wear on the surface of the
rail.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale
des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: rail profiles
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail profile gauge
A gauge for measuring the profile of the rail.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: rail profile gauges
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail profile matrix
A gauge for measuring the profile of the rail.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: rail profile matrices
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail profile set
A set of gauges for measuring the profiles of both the rail and the
fishplate.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail profile sets
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail profiler (vehicle)
An on-track machine used for reprofiling used rails in-situ using cutting
tools to remove thin layers of metal from the railhead to restore the correct
profile. operateded in conjunction with a swarf wagon.
Warrant: On-track
plant on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th
edition, 1981, p47
Plural form: rail profilers (vehicles)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
RT swarf wagon
rail resistance meter
A device for measuring the electrical resistance of the rail in connection
with track circuitry.
Warrant: Richard Gibbon BSc FIMechE, National Railway
Museum
Plural form: rail resistance meters
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail saw
A tool for sawing rails to length, usually clamped to the rail to give an
accurate cut at right angles to the rail.
Warrant: Track, J Pike, Sutton
Publishing, 2001 p113
Plural form: rail saws
CL Tools and equipment
BT track laying equipment
rail scale
A scale rule for use when drawing trackwork.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: rail scales
UF Browns universal rail scale
CL Tools and equipment
BT drawing instrument
rail seat
Those areas on the upper face of a sleeper normally between 400mm and 660mm
from each end where the rail or chair sits.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon
Buster, 1999
Plural form: rail seats
CL Track and track components
BT sleeper
rail section
A thin section of rail used for checking the wear on the surface of the
rail.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale
des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: rail sections
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail section tracing machine
A machine for measuring and recording of the profile of the rail.
Warrant: Richard Gibbon BSc FIMechE, National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail section tracing machines
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
rail spike
A heavy nail which holds flat bottom rail to a sleeper.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: rail spikes
UF spike (rail fastening)
CL Track and track components
BT <rail fastenings>
<rail support fastenings>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rail support fastenings>
CL Track and track components
BT track fastening
NT chair fastening
<rail supports>
Components that directly support the rail and/or spread or cushion the load
to the sleeper.
Plural form: <rail supports>
CL Track and track components
BT track component
NT rail baseplate
NT rail chair
NT rail pad
NT sleeper pad
rail tensor
A hydraulic device for stretching continuous welded rail during rail
stressing.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: rail tensors
CL Tools and equipment
BT track laying equipment
rail ticket
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Tickets, Timetables &
Handbills, M I Bray, Moorland Publishing Company Ltd., 1986
Plural form: rail tickets
USE railway ticket
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type of journey>
rail transportation trolley
A lightweight unpowered railway vehicle for the transport of rails to the
work site. Intended for use with track and service cars.
Warrant: On-track
plant on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th
edition, 1981, p15
Plural form: rail transportation trolleys
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
rail vehicle component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail vehicle components
USE vehicle component
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
rail wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of rails.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: rail wagons
UF railwagon
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for permanent way materials>
rail weighing machine
An apparatus for measuring the weight per length of rail.
Warrant:
National Railway Museum
Plural form: rail weighing machines
CL Tools and equipment
BT track laying equipment
railbus
A lightweight low capacity diesel or petrol railcar with bus or bus type
body, for passenger services on branch or other low-traffic lines.
Warrant:
The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan
Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: railbuses
UF rail bus
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT single unit stock
railcar
A passenger carrying car running singly or with others, propelled by an
integral light steam, petrol or diesel engine or by electric traction.
Warrant: The British Railcar, by R M Tuffnell, David & Charles, 1984
Plural form: railcars
UF bubble car
UF rail car
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT single unit stock
NT diesel railcar
railcar component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: railcar components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <components by type of vehicle>
NT railcar power unit
railcar power unit
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: railcar power units
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT railcar component
NT railcar power unit articulated with carriage
NT railcar power unit built into carriage
railcar power unit articulated with carriage
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: railcar power units articulated with carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT railcar power unit
railcar power unit built into carriage
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: railcar power units built into carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT railcar power unit
railcard
An identification card to enable particular categories of passengers to
obtain discounted fares, e.g. pensioners, students, etc.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: railcards
USE rail card
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by number of journeys>
railimeter
n/r.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: railimeters
CL Tools and equipment
BT track testing equipment
railmotor
A single carriage, sometimes with a trailer, powered by its own small steam
locomotive.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: railmotors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT single unit stock
<rails by condition>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rails by condition>
CL Track and track components
BT rail
NT damaged rail
NT failed rail
<rails by form>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rails by form>
CL Track and track components
BT rail
NT Barlow rail
NT bridge rail
NT bullhead rail
NT doubleway rail
NT edge rail
NT fish bellied rail
NT flat bottomed rail
NT iron bar rail
NT round top rail
NT singleway rail
NT Thomas Hughes rail
NT tub rail
<rails by function>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rails by function>
CL Track and track components
BT rail
NT check rail
NT running rail
NT street rail
<rails by installation>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rails by installation>
CL Track and track components
BT rail
NT closure rail
NT <crossing rails>
NT <switch rails>
<rails by material>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rails by material>
CL Track and track components
BT rail
NT cast iron rail
NT steel rail
NT wooden rail
NT wrought iron rail
<rails by treatment>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <rails by treatment>
CL Track and track components
BT rail
NT continuous welded rail
NT heat treated rail
NT long welded rail
NT scarf joint rail
NT shop made joint rail
NT welded continuous rail
railwagon
A long bogie vehicle for carrying rails. Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: railwagons
USE rail wagon
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for permanent way materials>
railway
Scope note required.
Warrant: The Victorian Railway, J Simmons, Thames
and Hudson, 1991
Plural form: railways
CL Railway types
NT <railways by form>
NT <railways by function>
NT <railways by gauge>
NT <railways by legal status>
NT <railways by location>
NT <railways by means of propulsion>
NT <railways by ownership/funding>
NT <railways by scale>
railway carriage
Scope note required.
Warrant: LNER Carriages, M Harris, David St John
Thomas, 1994
Plural form: railway carriages
UF carriage
UF coach
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by generic name>
railway crossing
A crossing where two railway lines cross on a level.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: railway crossings
USE flat crossing
CL Built works and components
railway curve
A curved scale used for calculating and drawing the correct radius of curve
whe designing railway track layouts.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: railway curves
CL Tools and equipment
BT drawing instrument
railway depot
A complex of sidings, buildings, platforms, etc. where transhipment,
stabling, servicing, repairs and other such activities are undertaken.
Warrant: The Victorian Railway, Jack Simmons, Thames & Hudson, 1991
Plural form: railway depots
UF depot
CL Built works and components
BT <complexes by form>
<railway manufacturing and maintenance equipment>
Tools and equipment used in the manufacture and maintenance of railway
vehicles and equipment.
Plural form: <railway manufacturing and maintenance equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
NT breakdown equipment
NT drawing office equipment
NT simulator
NT workshop document
NT workshop equipment
NT <permanent way tools and equipment>
NT <rolling stock testing equipment and records>
<railway medical equipment>
Equipment used in the provision of first aid or other medical services for
railway staff or passengers. Only medical equipment specific to railways will be
listed as narrower terms. Standard equipment such as first aid boxes,
stretchers, etc. will not be listed but if used in a specific railway context
can be classified to this heading in addition to being recorded within the
appropriate hierarchy of another thesaurus (e.g. AAT).
Plural form: <railway medical equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
NT eyesight testing equipment
<railway operating tools and equipment>
Any object or machine used in the operation of the railways. Warrant:
National Railway Museum
Plural form: <railway operating tools and equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
NT <carriage and wagon tools and equipment>
NT <draught animal equipment>
NT <general operating tools and equipment>
NT <on-train tools and equipment>
NT <railway yard and shed equipment>
NT <signal and telegraph maintenance equipment>
NT <station tools and equipment>
railway telephone
An instrument for transmitting speech via electrical signals carried along
wires.
Warrant: Oxford English Dictionary
Plural form: railway telephones
CL Control and communications
BT <telephone instruments, etc.>
NT block telephone
NT signal box telephone
NT signal post telephone
NT tunnel telephone
railway telephone box
A booth or weatherproof box containing a railway telephone.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: railway telephone boxes
CL Control and communications
BT <telephony>
RT signal telephone
railway telephone component
An instrument for transmitting speech via electrical signals carried along
wires.
Warrant: Oxford English Dictionary
Plural form: railway telephone components
CL Control and communications
BT <telephone instruments, etc.>
NT ringing key
NT tunnel telephone component
railway ticket
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Tickets, Timetables &
Handbills, M I Bray, Moorland Publishing Company Ltd., 1986
Plural form: railway tickets
UF rail ticket
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type of journey>
RAILWAY TYPES
Complete railway systems. Specific types of track, etc. are allocated to
the Track and track components class.
CL Railway types
Hierarchies
NT railway
railway wagon
Any railway vehicle used for transporting goods.
Warrant: Principal
Factors in Freight Train Operation, Philip Burtt, George Allen & Unwin, 1924
p117
Plural form: railway wagons
UF wagon
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by generic name>
railway wheel lathe
A special lathe for turning railway wheels and the metal tyres on railway
wheels.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: railway wheel lathes
USE wheel turning lathe
CL Tools and equipment
BT lathe
railway yard
A marshalling, stabling, works or transhipment area served by a complex of
sidings. If possible, use a more precise term from the <complexes>
heading.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: railway yards
UF yard
CL Built works and components
BT <complexes by form>
<railway yard and shed equipment>
All tools and equipment used by railway employees working in railway yards
and depots. Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: <railway yard and shed equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway operating tools and equipment>
NT shed trolley
NT shunting equipment
railwaymans bag
A bag supplied by the railway company to railway employees to carry the
tools and equipment required for them to carry our their duties.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: railwaymans bags
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general operating tools and equipment>
<railways by form>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by form>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT monorail
NT plateway
NT stone railway
NT tramway
NT wooden railway
<railways by function>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by function>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT military railway
NT temporary railway
NT <railways by places served>
NT <railways by principal traffic>
<railways by gauge>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by gauge>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT broad gauge railway
NT minimum gauge railway
NT narrow gauge railway
NT standard gauge railway
<railways by legal status>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by legal status>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT public railway
<railways by location>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by location>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT funicular railway
NT mountain railway
NT overhead railway
NT underground railway
<railways by means of propulsion>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by means of propulsion>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT <railways by power source>
NT <self-propelled railways by adhesion method>
<railways by ownership/funding>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by ownership/funding>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT joint stock railway
NT private railway
NT state railway
<railways by places served>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by places served>
CL Railway types
BT <railways by function>
NT inter-city railway
NT metro
NT suburban railway
<railways by power source>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by power source>
CL Railway types
BT <railways by means of propulsion>
NT <stationary traction source>
NT <traction source moving with train>
<railways by principal traffic>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by principal traffic>
CL Railway types
BT <railways by function>
NT freight railway
NT passenger railway
<railways by scale>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways by scale>
CL Railway types
BT railway
NT miniature railway
NT model railway
<railways supporting other transport systems>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <railways supporting other transport systems>
CL Railway types
BT freight railway
NT canal railway
NT dock railway
NT harbour railway
NT works railway
rail-built buffer stop
A buffer stop constructed mainly from old rails, the actual buffer beam
usually being of either timber or rails.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rail-built buffer stops
CL Track and track components
BT buffer stop
Ramsbottom displacement lubricator
Scope note required.
Warrant: John Ramsbottom, The Father of the
Modern Locomotive, F C Hambleton, Stephenson Locomotive Society, 1936
Plural form: Ramsbottom displacement lubricators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT lubricator
Ramsbottom safety valve
A direct loading safety valve, one of the first tamper-proof varieties
which enginemen could not interfere with, invented by Ramsbottom, Superintendent
of the London & North Western Railway.
Warrant: Great Western Railway
Drawing Registers
Plural form: Ramsbottom safety valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT safety valve
range multiplier
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: range multipliers
CL Control and communications
BT <radio electronic token block equipment>
range railway
A railway serving a military firing range.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: range railways
CL Railway types
BT military railway
rattle
An audible device in which a wooden baton strikes against a ratchet when
swung round.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rattles
USE safety rattle
CL Tools and equipment
BT lookouts equipment
ready to start indicator
The indicator that communicates from station staff to the signalman that
the train is ready to start.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: ready to start indicators
USE train ready to start indicator
CL Control and communications
BT <signals from platform staff to signalman>
ready to start plunger
The mechanism that actuates the ready to start indicator.
Warrant: Ray
Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: ready to start plungers
USE train ready to start plunger
CL Control and communications
BT <signals from platform staff to signalman>
real time clock
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: real time clocks
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general operating tools and equipment>
rear cylinder cover
A disc of iron or steel carrying the piston rod stuffing box and slide
bars, fitted to the back of a locomotive cylinder to retain the steam in the
cylinder.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: rear covers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
rectifier
Device for converting alternating current to direct current.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: rectifiers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <traction current transmission components>
refreshment trolley
A hand cart carrying refreshments for sale to passengers, used on train or
on station platforms.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: refreshment trolleys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station trolleys and barrows>
refrigerated meat van
A vehicle with refrigeration facilities dedicated to the conveyance of
chilled or frozen meat.
Warrant: Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: refrigerated meat vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT meat van
refrigerated van
A vehicle with refrigeration facilities to prevent deterioration of
perishable loads.
Warrant: A Pictorial Record of LNER Wagons, P Tatlow,
Oxford Publishing Company, 1976
Plural form: refrigerated vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by climate control>
refrigeration component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: refrigeration components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <environmental control components>
refuge
A place of safety in tunnels, on viaducts and alongside high speed lines
where employees can stand in safety.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: refuges
CL Built works and components
BT tunnel component
refuge line
A dead end siding allowing trains to be temporarily shunted off the running
line to allow faster trains to pass.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: refuge lines
USE refuge siding
CL Track and track components
BT <loops, refuges, etc.>
refuge siding
A dead end siding allowing trains to be temporarily shunted off the running
line to allow faster trains to pass.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: refuge sidings
UF refuge line
CL Track and track components
BT <loops, refuges, etc.>
RT siding
refuse disposal van
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of refuse.
Warrant:
Departmental Coaching Stock, Roger Butcher & Peter Fox, Platform 5
Publishing Ltd, 3rd edition, 1987 p26 & p46
Plural form: refuse disposal vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for waste materials>
regenerative brake
A braking system which enables an electric locomotive or train to reduce
its energy consumption by feeding back the traction supply power generated by
the motion of the train when it is descending a gradient.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: regenerative brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
register
A book, ledger or other document in which records are kept.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: registers
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <documents by form>
register of wagons
A document recording the details of goods wagons. Especially those private
owner wagons registered with the pre-nationalisation companies.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: registers of wagons
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <stock registers>
registration arm
A cantilever which accurately locates the conductor wire laterally in a
horizontal plane in overhead electrification systems.
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: registration arms
CL Track and track components
BT overhead line equipment
registration plate
A plate, usually of cast metal, giving the date, registration number and
name of the railway company with whom a private owner vehicle or locomotive has
been registered.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: registration plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT identity plate
NT crane registration plate
regulator
The valve controlling the flow of steam from a locomotive boiler to the
cylinders.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: regulators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <speed regulation components>
RT boiler assembly
regulator casing
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: casings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT regulator component
regulator component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: regulator components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <speed regulation components>
NT handle (regulator)
NT regulator casing
NT regulator extension handle
NT regulator handle
NT regulator operating rod
NT regulator valve
RT boiler assembly
regulator extension handle
A long handle fitted to the regulator handle to allow the driver to operate
it whilst also being able to lean out of the cab, mainly fitted to shunting
locomotives.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: regulator extension handles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT regulator component
regulator handle
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: regulator handles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT regulator component
regulator operating rod
The mechanical linkage between the regulator handles and the regulator
valve.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: operating rods
UF operating rod (regulator)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT regulator component
RT boiler assembly
regulator valve
The main steam control of a steam locomotive, used to admit steam from the
boiler into the cylinders.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers
Connor, 2000
Plural form: regulator valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT regulator component
RT boiler assembly
relay
A remotely controlled electro magnet switch for low electrical currents
used to make and break circuits.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: relays
CL Control and communications
BT <electrical transmission>
NT shelf relay
NT signal relay
release hook
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: release hooks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT drawbar hook
relief line
Great Western Railway term for the slower line in a multiple track area,
usually known elsewhere as the Slow Line.
Warrant: Railtrack London &
North Eastern, A Glossary of Railway Terms, October 1998
Plural form: relief lines
CL Track and track components
BT <running lines by speed of working>
relief train
An additional freight or passenger train run just before or just after a
regular scheduled service at times when traffic levels are high and one train
would not be adequate.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: relief trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by instigation/scheduling>
reminder appliance
A control device used to remind a signalman that a particular lever, button
or switch must not be operated.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: reminder appliances
CL Control and communications
BT <central control>
NT lever collar
NT signal lever collar
remote brake release control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: remote brake release controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake controls>
remotely controlled manned level crossing
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: remotely controlled manned level crossings
CL Control and communications
BT manned level crossing
repair book
A notebook kept on the footplate of a locomotive in which the footplate
crew record any defects occurring during its operation.
Warrant: Ray
Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: repair books
CL Tools and equipment
BT workshop document
repair shop
Scope note required.
Warrant: Locomotives, their construction,
maintenance and operation, A Morton Bell, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1946
Plural form: repair shops
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair structures>
repeater
An electrically worked indicator in a signalbox which shows the position of
a semaphore signal, usually one not visible from the box.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: repeaters
CL Control and communications
BT <signal confirmation>
repeater signal
A banner signal or similar, placed at a lower point on the signal post,
adopted in situations where the main signal cannot be clearly seen in sufficient
time.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan
A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: repeater signals
USE repeating signal
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by function>
repeating signal
A signal whose function is to repeat the indication shown by another when
the latter cannot be seen by the driver.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: repeating signals
UF repeater signal
UF signal repeater (lineside signal)
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by function>
NT banner repeater
NT banner repeating signal
NT fog signal repeater
NT semaphore repeater
rerailing equipment vehicle
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of rerailing equipment required
during recovery of derailed locomotives or vehicles.
Warrant: Departmental
Coaching Stock, Roger Butcher & Peter Fox, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 3rd
edition, 1987 p3
Plural form: rerailing equipment vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tool van
rerailing ramp
A ramp, forming an inclined path to guide a de-railed railway vehicle back
onto the rails.
Warrant: Encyclopedia of Railways, O S Nock, 1977
Plural form: rerailing ramps
CL Tools and equipment
BT breakdown equipment
reservation label
A card or paper label, usually affixed to the top or back of a carriage
seat to indicate that its occupancy was reserved.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: reservation labels
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <reservation markers>
NT carriage reservation label
NT seat reservation label
<reservation markers>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <reservation markers>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <passenger traffic accounting>
NT reservation label
NT reservation plate
reservation plate
A metal sign used to indicate that a passenger seat has been reserved.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: reservation plates
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <reservation markers>
reservation ticket
A ticket issued to a passenger indicating that they have reserved a
specific seat in a specific carriage on a specific train. The ticket would match
up with a reservation label or plate.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: reservation tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT non-travel ticket
reservoir railway
A contractor's railway laid to facilitate the building of a reservoir and
associated works.
Warrant: Reservoir Railways of Manchester and the Peak, H
D Bowtell, The Oakwood Press, 1977
Plural form: reservoir railways
CL Railway types
BT contractors railway
RT water board railway
reservoir (brake)
A compressed air or vacuum tank provided to supply braking systems with the
correct pressure for brake applications.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: reservoirs
USE brake reservoir
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
resetting cylinder
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: resetting cylinders
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
resetting rope
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: resetting ropes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <brake controls>
restarting injector
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: restarting injectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT injector
retarder
A rail-mounted brake to slow down and stop wagons moving by gravity into
sorting sidings in a marshalling or hump yard.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: retarders
CL Track and track components
BT <vehicle stopping sub-assemblies>
NT Dowty retarder
return crank
A component of Walschaerts valve gear, in effect an external eccentric,
which provides movement, via the eccentric rod, to the expansion link.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: return cranks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear component
return ticket
A ticket valid for both an outward and return journey.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: return tickets
UF childs privilege return ticket
UF first class return ticket
UF ordinary return ticket
UF privilege return ticket
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by number of journeys>
reverse link
Scope note required.
Warrant: Developments in Locomotive Practice,
Bowen Cooke, 1910
Plural form: reverse links
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear component
reverser
A mechanism used to reverse the direction of travel of a steam locomotive,
via its valve gear.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: reversers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT reversing gear
NT air operated reverser
NT screw reverser
NT steam reverser
reverser switch
A switch used to change the current direction through either the motor
armature or the motor field in such a way as to cause anti-clockwise or
clockwise traction motor rotation.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: reverser switches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <reversing controls>
reversible unit
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: reversible units
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <multiple units by control>
reversing arm
The linkage between the reversing shaft and the valve gear of a steam
locomotive.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: reversing arms
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT reversing gear
reversing component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: reversing components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT reversing gear
<reversing controls>
Driver's controls that reverse the direction of travel.
Plural form: <reversing controls>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driving and control components>
NT reverser switch
NT reversing lever
NT reversing lever latch
NT reversing stand
RT reversing gear
reversing gear
The mechanism that adjusts the valve gear to reverse the direction of
motion of a steam engine. For driver's controls that operate the reversing gear,
see <reversing controls> in <driving and control components>.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: reversing gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear component
NT reverser
NT reversing arm
NT reversing component
RT <reversing controls>
reversing lever
A lever linked directly to the valve gear of a steam locomotive, whereby
cut-off and direction of travel can be controlled.
Warrant: Great Western
Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: reversing levers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <reversing controls>
reversing lever latch
A locking mechanism incorporated with the reversing gear of a steam
locomotive.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: reversing lever latches
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <reversing controls>
reversing stand
A quadrant shaped support for the reversing lever with slots cut into its
top surface to accommodate a latch to hold the lever into the required position.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: reversing stands
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <reversing controls>
RT valve gear
rheostatic brake
A Brake used by locomotives and trains fitted with electric traction motors
where the motors become generators and the current developed is fed to on-board
resistor grids.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: rheostatic brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
ribbon printed ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ribbon printed tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by print features>
ridemeter
n/r.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ridemeters
CL Tools and equipment
BT <rolling stock testing equipment and records>
right away indicator
An indicator actuated by the station staff to inform the driver that the
train can start.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National
Railway Museum
Plural form: right away indicators
CL Control and communications
BT <signals from platform staff to driver/guard>
right away plunger
The mechanism that actuates the right away indicator.
Warrant: Ray
Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: right away plungers
CL Control and communications
BT <signals from platform staff to driver/guard>
rigid wheelbase vehicle
A vehicle which has its wheels attached directly to the underframe rather
than in bogies. Includes semi-rigid wheelbase vehicles where there is limited
lateral movement.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: rigid wheelbase vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by wheel arrangement>
NT eight wheel vehicle (non bogie)
NT four wheel vehicle
NT six wheel vehicle
ringing key
The actuating button on the signalbox telephone.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: ringing keys
CL Control and communications
BT railway telephone component
road building railway
A contractor's railway laid to facilitate the building of road.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: road building railways
CL Railway types
BT contractors railway
road rail adapter truck
A railway vehicle designed to support the first vehicle in a train of
road/rail trailers where the front end of each subsequent trailer is supported
by the one in front.
Warrant: British Railways Wagons - the first half
million, D P Rowland, David & Charles, 1985 p59 & 67.
Plural form: road rail adapter trucks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT transporter wagon
road roller wagon
A wagon specially designed to carry road rollers.
Warrant: Phil
Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: road roller wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <road vehicle carrying stock>
road user operated level crossing
A crossing equipped with field type gates operated by road users.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: road user operated level crossings
CL Control and communications
BT <level crossings by operation>
road van
A brake van with goods stowage space for conveying small freight
consignments between wayside stations and transhipment points.
Warrant: The
Principal Factors in Freight Train Operation, Philip Burtt, George Allen &
Unwin, 2nd Edition 1924 p173-4
Plural form: road vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT goods brake van
RT tranship van
road vehicle
Only railway specific (or very strongly railway related e.g. mechanical
horse) vehicles will be included in this thesaurus.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: road vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
NT mechanical horse
<road vehicle carrying stock>
Railway vehicles dedicated to the carriage of road vehicles.
Plural form: <road vehicle carrying stock>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load or function>
NT carriage truck
NT fire engine wagon
NT furniture van truck
NT motor car van
NT omnibus wagon
NT punt wagon
NT road roller wagon
NT traction wagon
NT tramcar wagon
road (track)
Railway jargon for a railway line. Warrant: Railtrack London & North
Eastern, A Glossary of Railway Terms, October 1998
Plural form: roads (track)
USE line (track)
CL Track and track components
road/rail lorry
A vehicle with both road and rail wheels designed in such a way that they
can be raised or lowered to allow travel on both road and rail tracks.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: road/rail lorries
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for permanent way materials>
road-rail milk tank wagon
A composite vehicle comprising a four or six wheel flat wagon carrying a
milk tank mounted on road wheels attached by shackles.
Warrant: An
Illustrated History of LMS Standard Coaching Stock, Vol.1, D Jenkinson & R J
Essery, Oxford Publishing Company, 1991
Plural form: road-rail milk tank wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <milk and dairy product carrying vehicles>
rocking grate
A grate which can be rocked by means of a lever, shaking the remains of the
fire through into the ashpan.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H
Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: rocking grates
CL Ve
