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S door
A hinged connecting door between vehicle saloons on London underground
stock.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: S doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door
sack barrow
A two wheel barrow for conveying sacks, luggage and similar materials
across the platform.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sack barrows
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station trolleys and barrows>
sack trolley
A four wheel trolley for conveying sacks, luggage and similar materials
across the platform.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sack trolleys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <station trolleys and barrows>
saddle tank
A water tank curved over the top of the boiler.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: saddle tanks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive water tank
saddle tank and tender locomotive
A locomotive carrying its water containing tanks on its main frames plus a
separate water/fuel tender.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saddletank and tender locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank and tender locomotive
saddle tank locomotive
A tank locomotive with water tank curved over the top of the boiler.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: saddle tank locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank locomotive
safety barrier
An obstruction intended to prevent entrance to a dangerous situation.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: safety barriers
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general operating tools and equipment>
safety chain
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: safety chains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
safety circuit
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: safety circuits
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fault detection and safety equipment>
safety circuit selector
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: safety circuit selectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fault detection and safety equipment>
safety hanger
A metal strap provided at various vulnerable points in the brake rigging to
catch broken or detached brake gear parts and prevent them dropping on the
track.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Carriage Drawings
Plural form: safety hangers
USE safety loop
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mechanical brake transmission components>
safety loop
A metal strap provided at various vulnerable points in the brake rigging to
catch broken or detached brake gear parts and prevent them dropping on the
track.
Warrant: The Automatic Vacuum Brake, British Railways Board , 1967
p17
Plural form: safety loops
UF safety hanger
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mechanical brake transmission components>
safety points
Points installed for the purpose of intercepting runaway vehicles or
stopping trains from leaving sidings, loops, etc. without authority.
Warrant: Railway Appliances, John Wolf Barry, Longmans, Green and Co, 1876 p92
Plural form: safety points
CL Track and track components
BT turnout
NT catch points
NT trap points
safety rattle
An audible device in which a wooden baton strikes against a ratchet when
swung round. Used by lookouts as an alarm to warn track workers of the approach
of a train.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: safety rattles
UF rattle
CL Tools and equipment
BT lookouts equipment
safety valve
A valve allowing excess pressure to escape from the locomotive boiler.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: safety valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler assembly
NT direct load safety valve
NT muffled pop safety valve
NT pop safety valve
NT Ramsbottom safety valve
NT Ross safety valve
NT Slater safety valve
safety wiring
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: safety wiring
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fault detection and safety equipment>
saloon
A railway passenger carriage with an open internal layout.
Warrant:
Phil Atkins, National Railway Museum
Plural form: access components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <areas within vehicle body>
saloon and corridor key
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon and corridor keys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
saloon bell surround
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon bell surrounds
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT saloon equipment
saloon bodyside/doorleaf seal
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon bodyside/doorleaf seals
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
saloon carriage
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon carriages
UF saloon coach
UF saloon (vehicle)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
saloon coach
A carriage usually for special traffic purposes such as railway directors,
or private party sometimes also used as an alternative to open coach.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: saloon coaches
USE saloon carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
saloon communicating threshold
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon communicating thresholds
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
saloon door interlock
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon door interlocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
saloon door selective re-open control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon door selective re-open controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <door controls>
saloon equipment
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon equipment
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <specific body components>
NT saloon bell surround
saloon exterior sill plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon exterior sill plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
saloon floor
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon floors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT floor component
saloon heat and vent control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon heat and vent controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
RT ventilation component
saloon heat and ventilation indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon heat and ventilation indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
RT ventilation component
saloon heating
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon heating
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT heating component
saloon interior sill plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon interior sill plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door component
saloon lights control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon lights controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <lighting controls>
saloon lights switch indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon lights switch indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <lighting controls>
saloon passenger information system
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon passenger information systems
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <train staff/passenger communication>
saloon seating
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon seating
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
saloon sliding door
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon sliding doors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door
saloon ventilation
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: saloon ventilation
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT ventilation component
saloon (vehicle)
A coach with all seats in one or more open areas.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: saloons (vehicles)
USE saloon carriage
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
salt wagon
A wagon designed for the conveyance of salt.
Warrant: Phil Atkins,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: salt wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mineral carrying vehicles>
sand box
A container, usually a casting, holding sand to assist adhesion of a
locomotive.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: sand boxes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT sanding gear
sand drag
A container of sand built up to cover the rails, designed to slow and stop
a train derailed at catch points or approaching buffer stops.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: sand drags
CL Track and track components
BT <vehicle stopping sub-assemblies>
sand gear
The equipment operated by the driver of a steam locomotive to release sand
onto slippery rails to improve adhesion.
Warrant: Locomotives, their
construction, maintenance and operation, A Morton Bell, Virtue & Co Ltd,
1946
Plural form: sand gear
USE sanding gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle component
sand railway
A railway serving a sand pit.
Warrant: Industrial Railways of the
South-East, I Dean et al, The Middleton Press, 1984
Plural form: sand railways
CL Railway types
BT quarry railway
sand wagon
A wagon used for the conveyance of sand.
Warrant: A Pictorial Record
of LNER Wagons, P Tatlow, Oxford Publishing Company, 1976
Plural form: sand wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT stone wagon
sander
A device operated by the driver of a locomotive to release sand onto
slippery rails to improve grip.
Warrant: Heritage Railways Association -
Glossary, http://ukhrail.ac.uk/glossary, 2000
Plural form: sanders
USE sanding gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle component
sanding gear
A device operated by the driver of a steam locomotive to release sand onto
slippery rails to improve adhesion.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing
Registers
Plural form: sanding gear
UF sand gear
UF sander
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle component
NT de-sander
NT Gresham locomotive steam standing apparatus
NT sand box
NT sanding gear wind deflector
NT sanding operating gear
NT sanding pipe
NT sanding valve
sanding gear wind deflector
A device to prevent sand from being dispersed while it is being deposited
on the rail by sanding gear.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing
Registers
Plural form: sanding gear wind deflectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT sanding gear
sanding operating gear
The mechanism for operating the sanding gear.
Warrant: Great Western
Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: sanding operating gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT sanding gear
sanding pipe
The pipe running from the sandbox to just above the rail head adjacent to
the wheel, through which sand is dispensed onto the rail.
Warrant: Great
Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: sanding pipes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT sanding gear
sanding valve
The valve releasing the mechanism that dispenses sand onto the rail, may be
steam, air, gravity or water operated.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sanding valves
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT sanding gear
sandite
A mixture of sand and antifreeze used for assisting traction adhesion
during extreme weather or during the leaf fall season.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: sandite
CL Tools and equipment
BT <track cleaning, greasing and adhesion equipment>
sausage van
A vehicle specially designed for and dedicated to the conveyance of
sausages.
Warrant: The Illustrated History of LMS Standard Coaching Stock,
Vol 1, D Jenkinson & R J Essery, Oxford Publishing Company, 1991
Plural form: sausage vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <meat and poultry product carrying vehicles>
scar
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: scars
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
scarf joint rail
A joint used for some types of fish-bellied rail where the ends were
overlapped side by side to make the joint.
Warrant: Jim Rees, Beamish North
of England Open Air Museum
Plural form: scarf joint rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by treatment>
scheduled train
A freight or passenger train that operates a regular scheduled service.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: scheduled trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by instigation/scheduling>
NT runs-as-required train
Schoen wheel
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: Schoen wheels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT disc wheel
scissors crossing
A crossover between two parallel tracks in both directions, the two
connections crossing each other diagonally at their centres so that in plan it
resembles an open pair of scissors.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: scissors crossings
USE scissors crossover
CL Track and track components
BT crossover
scissors crossover
A crossover between two parallel tracks in both directions, the two
connections crossing each other diagonally at their centres so that in plan it
resembles an open pair of scissors.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z
of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: scissors crossovers
UF scissors crossing
CL Track and track components
BT crossover
scoop
The means of taking up water into a locomotive tender from the water
troughs.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: scoops
USE water scoop
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water collection components>
scotch
A lump of wood either placed in an open switch of points to prevent
movement or on a rail under a wheel to prevent a vehicle from being moved.
Warrant: Railtrack London & North Eastern, A Glossary of Railway Terms,
October 1998
Plural form: scotches
UF skid
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunting equipment
scotch block
A pivoted or hinged block which can be placed across a rail to prevent
vehicles passing a certain point.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way:
Dimensional theory and practice, W Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922
Plural form: scotch blocks
CL Track and track components
BT <vehicle stopping sub-assemblies>
RT Scotch
scrap road
A siding where condemned vehicles are stored pending disposal.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: scrap roads
USE condemned stock siding
CL Track and track components
BT siding
screw coupling
Two D shaped shackles connected by a threaded spindle allowing the two
shackles to moved closer together which facilitates the buffers between
adjoining vehicles being held together.
Warrant: Great Western Railway
Drawing Registers
Plural form: screw couplings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
screw reverser
A screw mechanism used to reverse the direction of travel of the
locomotive.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: screw reversers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT reverser
scroll iron
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: scroll irons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT suspension component
searchlight signal
colour light signal with a single lamp and lens behind which a sliding
spectacle plate moves to give the aspect.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary,
An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: searchlight signals
CL Control and communications
BT <colour light signals by construction>
seaside railway
A miniature pleasure railway found in a seaside resort.
Warrant: A
Survey of Seaside Miniature Railways, D J Croft, The Oakwood Press, 1992
Plural form: seaside railways
CL Railway types
BT leisure railway
NT pier railway
RT miniature railway
season ticket
A ticket providing unlimited travel between two given points over a given
period (e.g. a week, month, quarter or year) and sold at a discount.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: season tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by number of journeys>
NT traders season ticket
seat arm rest
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seat arm rests
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
seat base
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seat bases
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
seat cover
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seat covers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
seat cushion
Upholstered padded seat in passenger railway carriages.
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: seat cushions
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
seat lock
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seat locks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
seat reservation label
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seat reservation labels
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT reservation label
seat riser
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seat risers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
seat squab
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seat squabs
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
seating
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: seating
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicle seating>
second class carriage
A railway carriage provided for the use of passengers holding second class
tickets.
Warrant: Passenger Class Distinctions, C E Lee, The Railway
Gazette, 1946
Plural form: second class carriages
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by class>
second class ticket
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Tickets, Timetables &
Handbills, M I Bray, Moorland Publishing Company Ltd, 1986
Plural form: second class tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by class>
<secondary electrical circuitry>
Electrical wiring, etc. primarily concerned with control and ancillary
functions such as lighting, etc. For traction current collection and
transmission components, see <secondary power collection components>.
Plural form: <secondary electrical circuitry>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle component
NT inter-car cable
NT inter-car jumper
NT jumper lead
NT local bond circuit
NT passenger open transmission
NT round train circuit
NT wiring loom
RT <power collection components>
secondary suspension
The flexible interface between the vehicle body and its bogies.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: secondary suspension
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT suspension component
<secondary use structures>
A building or other structure converted from a redundant vehicle body or
some other structure originally intended for a different purpose.
Plural form: <secondary use structures>
CL Built works and components
BT <single built works>
NT de-wheeled carriage shelter
section indicator
An instrument in the signalbox controlling the passage of trains.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: section indicators
CL Control and communications
BT block instrument
NT bay indicator
NT calling-on indicator
NT lock indicator
NT platform indicator
section isolator
An isolator used on an electrified railway to divide the current supply
system into separate areas or sections so that power can be switch off to an
individual section of line.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers
Connor, 2000
Plural form: section isolators
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply components>
section signal
A stop signal which controls the entrance to the block section.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: section signals
CL Control and communications
BT stop signal
section token
A token controlling the movement of trains on a single line, where the
driver must have possession of the token to proceed.
Warrant: Ray Towell,
Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: section tokens
CL Control and communications
BT block token
sector plate
A rotating table fitted with a section of line and pivoted towards one end,
used to transfer locomotives and rolling stock from one line to another, usually
in confined spaces where there is insufficient room for a headshunt and turnout.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sector plates
CL Track and track components
BT trackwork
RT turntable
self maintaining brake system
A system which will automatically compensate for air leakage in the brake
system.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: self maintaining brake systems
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
self normalising points
A set of points, spring operated or motor operated, which move back into
the original position after a train has passed over them.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: self normalising points
UF self restored points
CL Track and track components
BT <turnouts by operation>
self restored points
A set of points, spring operated or motor operated, which move back into
the original position after a train has passed over them.
Warrant: National
Railway Museum
Plural form: self restored points
USE self normalising points
CL Track and track components
BT <turnouts by operation>
self-acting railway
An incline worked by ropes or cables, on which the weight of descending
vehicles provides the power to haul up others on adjoining track.
Warrant:
The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan
Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: self-acting railways
USE counterbalanced railway
CL Railway types
BT cable haulage railway
self-cleaning smokebox
A smokebox fitted with a baffle plate placed in front of the tube plate to
direct the gases down and forward, lifting the ash towards a mesh screen which
breaks up larger pieces of ash so they are small enough to expel out of the
chimney rather than allowing the ash to remain in the smoke box..
Warrant:
Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co
Ltd, 1952
Plural form: self-cleaning smokeboxes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT smokebox
self-contained buffer
A complete buffing unit bolted to the headstock, consisting of a coil,
volute or rubber spring contained within the housing. A hole in the headstock is
provided for the travel of the buffer ram when under compression.
Warrant:
An Illustrated History of BR Wagons, Volume 1, Paul Bartlett, David Larkin,
Trevor Mann, Roger Silsbury & Andrew Ward, Oxford Publishing Company, 1985
p26
Plural form: self-contained buffers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT buffer
self-propelled crane
A rail mounted crane capable with its own propulsion system.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: self-propelled cranes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <travelling cranes by propulsion>
self-propelled platelayers trolley
A platelayer's trolley with its own power source.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: self-propelled platelayers trolleys
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT platelayers trolley
<self-propelled railways by adhesion method>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <self-powered railways by adhesion>
CL Railway types
BT <railways by means of propulsion>
NT adhesion railway
NT MAG-LEV railway
NT rack railway
self-propelled rolling stock
A powered vehicle capable of carrying a load in addition to its own fuel,
etc. and also often able to haul or propel additional vehicles. For motive power
units not carrying any payload, see 'locomotive'.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: self-propelled rolling stock
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by propulsion>
NT <self-propelled stock by formation>
NT <self-propelled stock by propulsion method>
RT locomotive
<self-propelled stock by formation>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <self-propelled stock by formation>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT self-propelled rolling stock
NT multiple unit stock
NT single unit stock
<self-propelled stock by propulsion method>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <self-propelled stock by propulsion method>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT self-propelled rolling stock
<self-propelled using externally supplied power>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <self-propelled using externally supplied power>
CL Railway types
BT <traction source moving with train>
NT electric railway
semaphore repeater
An electrical instrument in the signalbox indicating the position of signal
arms.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: semaphore repeaters
CL Control and communications
BT repeating signal
semaphore signal
Mechanical signal arms usually worked mechanically by wire from a signal
box lever frame.
Warrant: Railtrack London & North Eastern, A Glossary
of Railway Terms, October 1998
Plural form: semaphore signals
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by form>
NT centre balance signal
NT co-acting arm signal
NT lower quadrant signal
NT upper quadrant signal
semi-automatic signal
A signal normally worked by track circuits but which can be controlled by a
signalman or ground frame operator as necessary.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: semi-automatic signals
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by control method>
semi-gangwayed carriage
A corridor vehicle without gangwey connections for communication with
adjacent vehicles.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: semi-gangwayed carriages
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by internal layout/facilities>
semi-permanent coupler
A coupler forming a rigid longitudinal mechanical link between two cars
which cannot be uncoupled in service.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: semi-permanent couplers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
semi-permanent coupling
A coupling between vehicles provided for normally fixed formation train
sets consisting of a bar linked to the adjacent car underframes by pins.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: semi-permanent couplings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
sepex
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ?
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
serial numbered ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: serial numbered tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by print features>
series numbered ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: series numbered tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by print features>
servants ticket
A ticket issued at a discounted fare for travel by servants accompanying
their employer.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: servants tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type or age of traveller>
service brake
Scope note required.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares,
Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: service brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
service locomotive
A locomotive built for or transferred to departmental use.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: service locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by activity>
NT sleet locomotive
service train
A departmental or contractor's train engaged on railway construction,
testing or maintenance work or conveying materials for such work on a
non-revenue earning basis. Also includes non-revenue earning trains for
instructional and other departmental purposes.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: service trains
UF departmental train
UF engineers train
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT non-passenger train
NT ballast train
NT breakdown train
NT continuous welded rail train
NT de-icing train
NT inspection train
NT instruction train
NT rail grinding train
NT skip train
NT test train
NT tunnel cleaning train
NT tunnel inspection train
NT weedkilling train
<service vehicles and on-track plant>
Railway vehicles and rail-mounted plant used by engineering departments or
contractors for line maintenance, etc.
Plural form: <service vehicles and on-track plant>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load or function>
NT <cranes and ancillary vehicles>
NT <laboratory, workshop and tool vehicles>
NT <overhead structure maintenance vehicles>
NT <personnel transport and accommodation>
NT <power and heating vehicles>
NT <track maintenance vehicles>
NT <vehicles for permanent way materials>
NT <vehicles for stores and consumables>
NT <vehicles for waste materials>
set
A group of waggons on a rope incline.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: sets
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rope worked train
RT freight train
Setright machine
A machine operated by a conductor/guard for issuing tickets from a blank
paper roll.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: Setright machines
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine
sett
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: setts
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
share offer
An invitation for members of the public (or employees) to subscribe capital
in exchange for equity (shares) in the railway business.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: share offers
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <administration>
shearlegs
A hoisting apparatus of two or more poles attached at or near the top and
separated at the bottom, used for lifting and fitting engines etc.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: shearlegs
USE sheerlegs
CL Tools and equipment
BT lifting equipment
shear-legs
A hoisting apparatus of two or more poles attached at or near the top and
separated at the bottom, used for lifting and fitting engines etc.
Warrant:
Locomotives, their construction, maintenance and operation, A Morton Bell,
Virtue & Co Ltd, 1946
Plural form: shear-legs
USE sheerlegs
CL Tools and equipment
BT lifting equipment
shed plate
A cast plate that indicates the name or code of the motive power depot or
sub-depot to which the locomotive is currently allocated.
Warrant: Railway
Relics and Regalia, Ed P Whitehouse, Country Life, 1975
Plural form: shed plates
USE allocation plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <owners identity plates>
shed receptacle
A socket provided on an electric railway vehicle where a shore supply lead
can be inserted to provide power when the normal traction supply is not
available, usually used in sheds and workshops.
Warrant: Railway Technical
Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: shed receptacles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <shore supply collection components>
shed staff equipment
All tools and equipment used by railway employees working in railway depots
in the course of their duties.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: shed staff equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunting equipment
shed test magnet
An appliance used for testing AWS equipment. Passed over as trains leave
the depot.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shed test magnets
CL Tools and equipment
BT <signal and telegraph maintenance equipment>
shed trolley
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shed trolleys
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway yard and shed equipment>
shedplug
The device used to connect the supply to the train on a shed road or gap
jumper.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: shedplugs
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply components>
sheep wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of sheep.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: sheep wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <livestock carrying vehicles>
sheerlegs
A device consisting of three poles of wood or iron bolted together at their
upper ends and extended below, carrying tackle for raising heavy weights.
Sometimes provided at locomotive sheds or wagon repair shops, etc. for lifting
locomotives or rolling stock during repairs.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sheerlegs
UF shearlegs
UF shear-legs
CL Tools and equipment
BT lifting equipment
shelf relay
A relay whose housing is designed to reside on a shelf.
Warrant: Ray
Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: shelf relays
CL Control and communications
BT relay
shell ventilator
An external roof ventilator shaped like a cockle shell.
Warrant: The
Illustrated history of LMS standard coaching stock Vol 3: Non-corridor, special
purpose and self-propelled vehicles, David Jenkinson & Bob Essery, Oxford
Publishing Company, 2000 p8
Plural form: shell ventilators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof ventilator
shelter
A structure providing protection from the elements.
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: shelters
CL Built works and components
BT building
RT platform shelter
shock absorbing van
A covered van fitted with special buffing and springing gear to minimise
the risk of damage to goods carried during shunting operations.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: shock absorbing vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT covered van
shock absorbing wagon
vehicle equipped with telescopic hydraulic buffers used for carrying
sensitive loads.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union
Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: shock absorbing wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT open merchandise wagon
shoe
Apparatus by which an electric train picks up current from the third rail.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: shoes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
shoe ball boot
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shoe ball boots
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
shoe collector
An electricity collector that slides along near ground level track.
Warrant: Electric Locomotives and Railways, H Greenly, no date
Plural form: shoe collectors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
shoe paddle
A tool made of wood or other insulating material which can be inserted
between the collector shoe of an electric train and the live rail to isolate
traction current in an emergency.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shoe paddles
UF paddle
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
shoe strap
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shoe straps
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
shoegear
The mechanical apparatus located on the bogie for collecting the traction
supply from the conductor rails.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: shoegears
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
shoegear retraction system
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shoegear retraction systems
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <conductor rail collection components>
shop made joint rail
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shop made joint rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by treatment>
shop-made joint
An insulated rail joint prepared and assembled in controlled workshop
conditions.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: shop-made joints
CL Track and track components
BT rail joint
shore supply
A fixed facility to supply electricity for heating and air conditioning to
a stationary train lacking its motive power.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: shore supplies
CL Built works and components
BT <electricity supply structures>
<shore supply collection components>
Vehicle components concerned with the collection of traction current from a
shore supply lead (shed plug, gap jumper, etc.). For general electrical
circuitry, see <electrical circuitry>.
Plural form: <shore supply collection components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power collection components>
NT shed receptacle
RT <electrical circuitry>
short circuiting device
A hand tool for preventing traction current from being switched on to a DC
electrified line.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: short circuiting devices
CL Tools and equipment
BT <track workers safety equipment>
shotter transformer
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shotter transformers
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
shunt signal
A signal used for controlling shunt movements.
Warrant: A Pictorial
Record of LMS Signals, L G Warburtom, Oxford Publishing Company, 1972
Plural form: shunt signals
CL Control and communications
BT subsidiary signal
shunt (route class)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shunts (route class)
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
shunt (siding)
A short length of track used to facilitate shunting movements.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shunts (sidings)
CL Track and track components
BT <shunting roads>
shunters bell
A bell used to control shunting movements in tunnels and restricted areas.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: shunters bells
CL Control and communications
BT <audible signals>
shunters coupling hook
A pole fitted with a special hook used for manual coupling/uncoupling of
loose-coupled vehicles from the lineside.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary,
An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, 2000
Plural form: shunters coupling hooks
USE shunting pole
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
shunters equipment
The tools and equipment used by the shunter to enable him to carry out his
duties.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shunters equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunting equipment
NT brake stick
NT chock
NT pinch bar
NT shunters handlamp
NT shunters horn
NT shunters whistle
NT shunting pole
NT sprag
shunters handlamp
A handlamp carried by the railway shunter used for giving hand signals in
poor light, capable of showing red, green and white light.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: shunters handlamps
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
shunters horn
An small wind instrument used as an audible device by the railway shunter
to warn of danger.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shunters horns
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
shunters pole
A pole fitted with a special hook used for manual coupling/uncoupling of
loose-coupled vehicles from the lineside.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: shunters poles
USE shunting pole
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
shunters truck
A railway truck, normally coupled to shunting locomotives for the use of
shunting staff, employing low running boards, grab handles and boxes for lamps,
scotches and chocks, used extensively on the Great Western Railway.
Warrant: A History of GWR Goods Wagons, A G Atkins, W Beard et al, David &
Charles, 2nd Edn, 1986 p134 Warrant: An Illustrated History of LMS Wagons Vol 2,
R J Essery, Oxford Publishing Company, 1983 p191
Plural form: shunters trucks
UF shunting truck
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <non-revenue operating stock>
shunters whistle
A high-pitched audible device carried by shunter to warn of danger.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shunters whistles
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
shunting capstan
A powered capstan used in goods yards, etc. for the rope haulage of wagons.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: shunting capstans
CL Built works and components
BT <cable haulage structures and equipment>
shunting chain
The chains attached to the shunting harness and to the railway wagon during
horse shunting.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shunting chains
CL Tools and equipment
BT horse-shunting equipment
shunting collar
A specially shaped protective leather band worn around a horse's neck to
attach to the harness when shunting.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shunting collars
CL Tools and equipment
BT horse-shunting equipment
shunting equipment
All the tools and equipment used by railway employees engaged in the
movement and marshalling of railway vehicles.
Warrant: National Railway
Museum
Plural form: shunting equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway yard and shed equipment>
NT horse-shunting equipment
NT scotch
NT shed staff equipment
NT shunters equipment
shunting frame
Scope note required.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: shunting frames
CL Control and communications
BT <control centres by function>
RT ground frame
shunting horse
A horse used to move railway vehicles during shunting operations.
Warrant: The Long Haul - The Life and Times of the Railway Horse, B Holden, J A
Allen, 1985
Plural form: shunting horses
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT draught animal
shunting locomotive
A locomotive used for moving rolling stock into position for making up
larger trains.
Warrant: Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World
War, R Tourret, Tourist Publishing, 1995
Plural form: shunting locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by activity>
NT crane locomotive
shunting pole
A pole fitted with a special hook used for manual coupling/uncoupling of
loose-coupled vehicles from the lineside.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary,
An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: shunting poles
UF shunters coupling hook
UF shunters pole
CL Tools and equipment
BT shunters equipment
<shunting roads>
Sidings, loop lines, etc. used to facilitate shunting movements.
Plural form: <shunting roads>
CL Track and track components
BT line (track)
NT centre siding
NT headshunt
NT run-round
NT shunt (siding)
RT <route complexes>
shunting signal
A signal which is provided for shunting purpose only.
Warrant:
Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: shunting signals
UF Tommy Dod
CL Control and communications
BT subsidiary signal
NT ground shunt signal
NT ground signal
NT hump signal
NT shunt-ahead signal
NT yellow shunt signal
shunting strap
The leather strap connecting the components of the shunting harness.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shunting straps
CL Tools and equipment
BT horse-shunting equipment
shunting tractor
A road tractor used for moving railway vehicles in yards, etc. with paved
surfaces.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shunting tractors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mechanical off-track motive power>
shunting truck
A railway truck, normally coupled to shunting locomotives for the use of
shunting staff, employing low running boards, grab handles and boxes for lamps,
scotches and chocks, used extensively on the Great Western Railway.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: shunting trucks
USE shunters truck
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <non-revenue operating stock>
shunt-ahead signal
A subsidiary signal used to indicate that a driver may move past a main
stop signal at danger to a predetermined location for shunting purposes only.
Warrant: British Railway Signalling, G Kichenside & A Williams, Ian Allan,
1963 p21 Warrant: Two Centuries of Railway Signalling, G Kichenside & A
Williams, Oxford Publishing Company, 1998 p237
Plural form: shunt-ahead signals
CL Control and communications
BT shunting signal
RT limit of shunt indicator
side chain
Additional couplings formerly used between passenger vehicles to prevent
severance should screw couplings fail.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An
A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: side chains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
side discharge hopper wagon
A hopper wagon with bottom doors arranged so as to discharge the load to
the side (e.g. to deposit ballast alongside the track).
Warrant: British
Railways Wagons - the first half million, D P Rowland, David & Charles, 1985
Plural form: side discharge hopper wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by access/discharge arrangements>
RT hopper wagon
side discharge muck car
A railway wagon dedicated to the carriage of spoil and designed to
discharge its load to the side.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: side discharge muck cars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT spoil wagon
side door vehicle
A vehicle with doors in the side of the body or with sides that drop along
their full length.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: side door vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by access/discharge arrangements>
NT side door wagon
side door wagon
A wagon with doors in the side of the body or with sides that drop along
their full length.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: side door wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT side door vehicle
NT drop side wagon
side framing
A pillar or rail forming a basic structural member of vehicle body sides.
For door framing see 'vehicle door component', for window framing see 'light
component (vehicle window)'.
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: side framing
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body framing
NT bottom light rail
NT corner pillar
NT deck roof side pillar
NT panel batten
NT standing pillar
NT top light rail
NT waist rail
side lamp
Lamps placed either side of a freight brake van when this was attached to
an unfitted freight train.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: side lamps
UF side light (lamp)
CL Control and communications
BT <on-train signals>
side lamp bracket
A tongue of steel fitted to each side of a goods brake van to hold the side
lights.
Warrant: British Railways Rule Book, 1950
Plural form: side lamp brackets
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT lamp bracket
side lampcase
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: side lampcases
CL Control and communications
BT <on-train signals>
side light (lamp)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: side lights (lamps)
USE side lamp
CL Control and communications
BT <on-train signals>
side light (vehicle window)
A window along the sides of a railway carriage.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: side lights (vehicle windows)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT light (vehicle window)
side plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: side plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unidentified vehicle components>
side rail
A longitudinal wooden member forming the side of a wagon floor and the
foundation on which the body sides are built. In vehicles with metal
underframes, the equivalent component is the curb rail.
Warrant: British
Goods Wagons from 1887 to the Present Day, R J Essery, D P Rowland & W O
Steel, David & Charles, 1970 p29-30
Plural form: side rails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT bottom framing
side rod oil chamber
An oil reservoir above each crank pin bearing to lubricate the bearings on
the side rods.
Warrant: Steam Locomotion, E C Poultney & C R H Simpson,
Caxton Publishing Company, 1951
Plural form: side rod oil chambers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
side sill
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: side sills
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <specific body components>
side tank
A conventional water tank arrangement for a tank locomotive rectangular in
shape and resting on the frames both sides of the boiler.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: side tanks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive water tank
side tank and tender locomotive
A locomotive carrying its water containing tanks mounted on its footplate
both sides of its boiler plus a separate tender.
Warrant: A Hunslet
Hundred, L T C Rolt, David & Charles, 1964
Plural form: side tank and tender locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank and tender locomotive
side tank locomotive
A locomotive with its water tanks mounted on the running plate either side
of the boiler.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson &
F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: side tank locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank locomotive
sidelamp
A lamp placed on each side of a freight brake van when this was attached to
an unfitted (loose-coupled) freight train.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary,
An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: sidelamps
CL Control and communications
BT <on-train signals>
siding
Any track which is not a running line and on which vehicles may be loaded,
unloaded, stabled, shunted or marshalled.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary,
An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: sidings
CL Track and track components
BT line (track)
NT brake van siding
NT carriage siding
NT condemned stock siding
NT cripple siding
NT engineers siding
NT private siding
RT centre siding
RT refuge siding
sighting board
A white painted board placed behind a semaphore signal to improve
visibility in locations where the arm does not stand out clearly against the
background.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: sighting boards
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
sight-feed lubricator
A locomotive lubricator where a reservoir of oil mounted in the cab is
equipped with a glass fronted tube to allow the crew to observe that oil is
being fed to the valves and pistons.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages,
Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: sight-feed lubricators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT lubricator
<signage>
All of the signs and notices used to provide information or warnings to
railway employees and users. Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: <signage>
CL Built works and components
BT <built work furnishings, fixtures and fittings>
NT <station signage>
signal
A visual indication given to a train driver to advise on the condition of
the route ahead. Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: signals
USE fixed signal
CL Control and communications
BT <visual signals>
signal access component
A part of a signal structure such as a ladder, landing, safety rail, etc.
designed to provide access or protection for lampmen, S&T staff, etc. when
working on the signal head.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal access components
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
NT signal ladder
<signal and telegraph maintenance equipment>
All tools and equipment used by railway employees in the maintenance of
railway signalling and telegraph systems. Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: <signal and telegraph maintenance equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway operating tools and equipment>
NT climber for climbing telegraph poles
NT shed test magnet
RT lampmans equipment
signal and telegraph works
A factory for the production of railway signalling and communications
equipment.
Warrant: A Pictorial Record of Great Western Signalling, A
Vaughan, Oxford Publishing Company, Revised Edn, 1984 p23
Plural form: signal and telegraph works
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair complexes>
signal arm
The visible, movable part of a fixed semaphore signal which denotes the
permission to proceed.
Warrant: A Pictorial Survey of LNER Constituent
Signalling, A A Maclean, Oxford Publishing Company, 1983
Plural form: signal arms
CL Control and communications
BT signal arm assembly component
NT distant arm
NT main arm
NT miniature arm
NT stop signal arm
signal arm assembly
The visible, movable part of a fixed semaphore signal which denotes the
permission to proceed. It normally comprises an arm, spectacle, pivot and
backlight blinder. In some signal designs (e.g. GN somersault signals) the
spectacles are not directly secured to the arm (in some signals being well
below the arm) but for simplicity will still be considered part of same assembly
as they are directly linked.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal arm assemblies
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
signal arm assembly component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal arm components
CL Control and communications
BT signal component
NT back light blinder
NT signal arm
NT signal arm support casting
NT signal spectacle
NT spectacle casting
signal arm repeater
An electrical instrument in the signalbox indicating the position of signal
arms.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal arm repeaters
CL Control and communications
BT signal repeater
signal arm support casting
A signal component supporting the signal spindle and signal arm.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal arm support castings
CL Control and communications
BT signal arm assembly component
signal balance weight
A weight used for returning signal arms to danger when the lever is
returned to the normal position.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal balance weights
CL Control and communications
BT signal operating component
signal box
A building housing equipment for operation of points and signals in a
particular area or section of a route.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes
Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: signal boxes
UF signal cabin
CL Built works and components
BT <control structures>
signal box clock
A clock provided for the use of the signalman.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: signal box clocks
CL Built works and components
BT signal box component
signal box component
Any individual part of a signal box.
Warrant: Railway Terminology
Working Group
Plural form: signal box components
CL Built works and components
BT <control structure components>
NT signal box clock
NT signal box nameboard
signal box name
A metal or wooden sign used to identify the location of signal boxes.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal box names
USE signal box nameboard
CL Built works and components
BT signal box component
signal box nameboard
A board attached to a signalbox showing the identification and location of
the box.
Warrant: A Pictorial Survey of LNER Constituent Signalling, A A
Maclean, Oxford Publishing Company, 1983
Plural form: signal box nameboards
UF signal box name
UF signal box nameplate
CL Built works and components
BT signal box component
signal box nameplate
A metal or wooden sign used to identify the location of signal boxes.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal box nameplates
USE signal box nameboard
CL Built works and components
BT signal box component
signal box telephone
A telephone in a signal box.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of
Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal box telephones
CL Control and communications
BT railway telephone
signal bracket
The mechanical assembly supported on a single post supporting signal dolls
and signals for diverging routes.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of
Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: signal brackets
CL Control and communications
BT signal support component
signal cabin
A building or structure housing the controls and equipment used by the
signalman to operate the signals.
Warrant: The Victorian Railway, Jack
Simmons, Thames & Hudson, 1991
Plural form: signal cabins
USE signal box
CL Built works and components
BT <control structures>
signal component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: signal components
CL Control and communications
BT <visual signals>
NT bump stop casting
NT colour light signal head
NT colour light signal head component
NT disc (signal component)
NT route indicator
NT sighting board
NT signal access component
NT signal arm assembly
NT signal arm assembly component
NT signal key
NT signal lamp
NT signal lamp component
NT signal operating component
NT signal support component
NT tubular steel type signal assembly
NT <signal mounted signs>
<signal confirmation>
Remote indicators that confirm the aspect or illumination of signals.
Plural form: <signal confirmation>
CL Control and communications
BT <control displays and indicators>
NT arm repeater
NT lamp out indicator
NT light indicator
NT on/off indicator
NT repeater
NT signal repeater
signal counterweight
A cast iron weight, usually mounted on a lever on the signal post, that
ensures the return of the arm to the 'On' position when tension i
