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tablet
A device carried by a Driver as his authority to run over a single line
worked by the Electric Token Block System.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon
Buster, 1999
Plural form: tablets
CL Control and communications
BT block token
tablet catcher
The mechanical equipment for receiving the single line tablet from or
delivering it to a moving train.
Warrant: Two Centuries of Railway
Signalling, G Kichenside & A Williams, Oxford Publishing Company, 1998
Plural form: tablet catchers
CL Control and communications
BT <electric token block equipment>
tablet instrument
The instrument in the signalbox for controlling single lines containing a
number of signal line tablets.
Warrant: Two Centuries of Railway
Signalling, G Kichenside & A Williams, Oxford Publishing Company, 1998
Plural form: tablet instruments
CL Control and communications
BT <electric token block equipment>
tablet machine
The instrument in the signalbox for controlling single lines containing a
number of signal line tablets.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: tablet machines
CL Control and communications
BT <electric token block equipment>
tablet pouch
A leather pouch mounted on a steel hoop used for the transfer of single
line tablets between the signalman and the driver.
Warrant: Two Centuries
of Railway Signalling, G Kichenside & A Williams, Oxford Publishing Company,
1998
Plural form: tablet pouches
CL Control and communications
BT <block system working>
tachogenerator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tachogenerators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <ancillary electrical equipment>
tail lamp
The red lamp displayed at the rear of the last vehicle of the train.
Warrant: British Railways Rule Book, 1950
Plural form: tail lamps
UF tailamp
CL Control and communications
BT <on-train signals>
NT Bardic electric tail lamp
NT fixed tail lamp
tail lamp bracket
The vertical tongue of metal attached to each end of a railway vehicle for
hold the tail lamp.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tail lamp brackets
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT lamp bracket
tail rod
An extension to the piston rod which protruded through the front of the
cylinder. Also fitted to some piston valves.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web
Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: tail rods
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <cylinders and associated components>
tailamp
The red lamp displayed at the rear of the last vehicle of the train.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tailamps
USE tail lamp
CL Control and communications
BT <on-train signals>
tailboard
A gangway cover painted with the title and logo of a named passenger train.
Warrant: Parkin, Keith British Railways Mark 1 Coaches, Pendragon, 1991 p66
Plural form: tailboards
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <destination, etc. indicating equipment>
RT gangway component
tamper siding
A siding used for the stabling of ballast tamping machines.
Warrant:
Railway Track Diagrams - Great Western, Quail Map Company, Third Edition, 2000.
Plural form: tamper sidings
CL Track and track components
BT engineers siding
RT tamper (vehicle)
tamper (hand held)
A pneumatic or electric power hand tool used to compact the ballast under
the sleepers.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and
Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed), The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1993
p219
Plural form: tampers (hand held)
CL Tools and equipment
BT gangers equipment
RT tamper (vehicle)
tamper (vehicle)
An on-track machine used to compact the ballast under the sleepers.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler
(Ed), The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1993 p219
Plural form: tampers (vehicles)
UF on track self propelled tamping machine
UF tamping machine
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
RT tamper (hand held)
tamper/liner
An on-track machine used to pack the track to its correct longitudinal and
transverse level and pulling the track to correct alignment.
Warrant:
On-track plant on British Railways, Roger Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd,
4th edition, 1981, p21
Plural form: tamper/liners
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT ballast tamper (vehicle)
NT switch and crossing tamper/liner
tamping machine
An on-track machine used to compact the ballast under the sleepers.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, G H Cope
(Ed), The Permanent Way Institution, 6th Edition, 1993
Plural form: tamping machines
USE tamper (vehicle)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
tank and tender locomotive
A steam locomotive which is provided with both (side) tanks and a separate
tender
Warrant: A Hunslet Hundred by L.T.C. Rolt, David and Charles 1964
Plural form: tank and tender locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by water arrangements>
NT inverted tank and tender locomotive
NT pannier tank and tender locomotive
NT saddle tank and tender locomotive
NT side tank and tender locomotive
NT well tank and tender locomotive
tank assembly
One or more vessels attached close to the boiler on a tank engine, or built
into the tender, which carry the locomotive boiler feed water supply.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: tank assemblies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
tank indicator
An indicator which shows the quantity of water in the tender or tanks of a
steam locomotive.
Warrant: Locomotive Management, 10th edition, J T Hodgson
& C S Lake, revised by W B Oaten, Tothill Press, 1954
Plural form: tank indicators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel and water controls and gauges>
tank lid
The hinged cover on a locomotive tank or tender tank to stop the ingress of
foreign objects into the tank and to prevent the contents of the tank from
surging out in transit.
Warrant: The Locomotive of Today, Locomotive
Publishing Company, 1927
Plural form: tank lids
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT hatch component
tank locomotive
A steam locomotive which carries its water in one or more tanks mounted on
the locomotive itself rather than in a separate tender.
Warrant:
Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co
Ltd, 1952
Plural form: tank locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by water arrangements>
NT inverted tank locomotive
NT pannier tank locomotive
NT saddle tank locomotive
NT side tank locomotive
NT well tank locomotive
tank transporting wagon
A wagon designed for the carriage of military tanks, etc.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: tank transporting wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
tank wagon
A vehicle with a large sealed container for carrying liquids or gases.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: tank wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT closed vehicle
tank (fuel - locomotive component)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tanks (fuel - locomotive component)
USE fuel tank (locomotive component)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel storage components>
tank (locomotive component)
Use 'locomotive water tank' if appropriate. Use 'locomotive fuel tank' in
the case of tanks used to hold diesel fuel.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tanks (locomotive component)
USE locomotive water tank
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
tank (water - locomotive component)
The vessel attached close to the boiler on a tank engine, or built into the
tender, which carry the locomotive boiler feed water supply.
Warrant:
Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co
Ltd, 1952
Plural form: tanks (water - locomotive component)
USE water tank (locomotive component)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
tapered boiler
A boiler design where the diameter at the smokebox end is smaller than at
the firebox end to allow the maximum area for heating around the firebox.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: tapered boilers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler
tappet (interlocking component)
A long flat bar connected to a point or signal lever which passes through
the interlocking tray where one or more cut-outs (known as 'ports') actuate the
sliding locks that prevent the signalling of conflicting movements.
Warrant: Signalling in the age of steam, M A Vanns, Ian Allan, 1995
Plural form: tappets (interlocking component)
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical interlocking equipment>
tappet (valve gear)
Scope note required.
Warrant: Orenstein and Koppel publicity material
Plural form: tappets (valve gear)
USE valve gear tappet
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear component
tariff van
A brake van with goods stowage space for conveying small freight
consignments between wayside stations and transhipment points.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: tariff vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT goods brake van
RT covered goods van
tarpaulin bar
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tarpaulin bars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <load support and securing components>
tarpaulin bar wagon
An open goods wagon fitted with a tarpaulin bar to support a wagon sheet in
order to provide weatherproofing for the load.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tarpaulin bar wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT open merchandise wagon
TASC
A railway maintenance vehicle which can carry materials plus workers to and
from the work site.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways, Roger
Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p13
Plural form: TASCs
USE track and service car
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
tavern car
A specialised restaurant car where internal arrangements were patterned on
an old English tavern.
Warrant: Bulleid's Passenger Steam Passenger Stock,
D Gould, The Oakwood Press, 1980
Plural form: tavern cars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by function>
telegraph instrument
Scope note required.
Warrant: The Electric Telegraph - A Social and
Economic History, J Kieve, David & Charles, 1973
Plural form: telegraph instruments
CL Control and communications
BT <telegraphy>
NT single needle speaking telegraph instrument
RT block instrument
<telegraphy>
Communication via an apparatus consisting of a transmitting instrument
(transmitter), a receiving instrument (receiver), and a line or wire of any
length connecting these, along which an electric current from a battery or other
source passes, the circuit being made and broken by working the transmitter, so
as to produce movements, as of a needle or pointer, in the receiver, which
indicate letters, etc., either according to a code of signs, or by pointing to
characters upon a dial. Used here for equipment used for sending general
messages rather than block signalling instruments which appear under <train
protection equipment>. Warrant: Oxford English Dictionary
Plural form: <telegraphy>
CL Control and communications
BT <communications>
NT telegraph instrument
RT <block telegraphy>
<telephone exchanges, switchgear, etc.>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <telephone exchanges, switchgear, etc.>
CL Control and communications
BT <telephony>
NT absence switch
<telephone instruments, etc.>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <telephone instruments, etc.>
CL Control and communications
BT <telephony>
NT railway telephone
NT railway telephone component
<telephone line equipment>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <telephone line equipment>
CL Control and communications
BT <telephony>
NT telephone line insulator
telephone line insulator
A ceramic cup inverted over a steel support, carrying the telegraph or
telephone wires to insulate them from earth.
Warrant: Searching for Railway
Telegraph Insulators, W K Neal, The Signal Box Press, 1982
Plural form: telephone line insulators
CL Control and communications
BT <telephone line equipment>
<telephony>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <telephony>
CL Control and communications
BT <communications>
NT railway telephone box
NT <telephone exchanges, switchgear, etc.>
NT <telephone instruments, etc.>
NT <telephone line equipment>
temporary railway
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: temporary railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways by function>
NT contractors railway
temporary speed restriction sign
A warning indicator placed in advance, at the commencement or at the
termination of a temporary speed restriction.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: temporary speed restriction signs
CL Control and communications
BT <trackside indicators>
NT commencement indicator
NT emergency speed restriction indicator
NT spate indicator
NT special speed restriction board
NT termination indicator
temporary steam tender
Scope note required.
Warrant: Articulated Locomotives, L Wiener, 1930
Plural form: temporary steam tenders
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT steam tender
NT Bethlehem Auxilliary engine
NT Franklin reversible booster
RT articulated locomotive
temporary track
Temporary track laid during the building of a railway or other civil
engineering or construction enterprise.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: temporary tracks
UF contractors track
UF jubilee track
CL Track and track components
BT <track by permanence>
ten coupled locomotive
A locomotive with ten driving wheels, coupled together.
Warrant:
Locomotive Management, 10th edition, J T Hodgson & C S Lake, revised by W B
Oaten, Tothill Press, 1954
Plural form: ten coupled locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <locomotives by wheel arrangement>
NT decapod
ten foot
The central space on a four track railway.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon
Buster, 1999
Plural form: ten foot
CL Track and track components
BT <track areas by position>
tender
The separate vehicle containing fuel and water supplies attached to a steam
locomotive.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B
Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: tenders
USE locomotive tender
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive component
RT brake tender
tender brake
A hand wheel or lever on the tender connected to brake blocks acting on the
tender wheels, the only means by which early locomotives were stopped.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: tender brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT braking system
tender drawgear
Components forming the coupling between a locomotive and its tender.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: tender drawgear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <buffing and drawgear>
NT drag box
NT dragbox buffer
NT dragbox coupling
tender locomotive
A steam locomotive which carries its water in a separate vehicle (tender)
which is usually placed behind the locomotive.
Warrant: Locomotives and
Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: tender locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by water arrangements>
tender oil tank assembly
The equipment fitted into the tender for the storage of fuel in oil fired
locomotives.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: tender oil tank assemblies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel storage components>
tender water tank assembly
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: tender water tank assemblies
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
terminal platform
A platform that serves a dead-end line.
Warrant: The History &
Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National
Railway Museum
Plural form: terminal platforms
CL Built works and components
BT platform
terminal station
A station that serves a dead-end line.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: terminal stations
CL Built works and components
BT station
termination indicator
A sign at the running-off end of a temporary speed restriction.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British
Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: termination indicators
CL Control and communications
BT temporary speed restriction sign
terminus
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: termini
CL Built works and components
BT station
test cock
The valve fitted to Great Western Railway locomotives for checking the
level of the water in the boiler in case of damage to the single boiler water
level gauge.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: test cocks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler assembly
test lamp
n/r.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: test lamps
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general test equipment>
test meter
n/r.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: test meters
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general test equipment>
test meter shunt
n/r.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: test meter shunts
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general test equipment>
test train
A train operated for testing purposes.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: test trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT service train
NT bridge test train
NT clearance test train
NT track recording train
testing plant
A static testing station for steam locomotives.
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: testing plant
CL Tools and equipment
BT <rolling stock testing equipment and records>
testing set 'Megger' resistance meter
n/r.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: testing set 'Megger' resistance meters
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general test equipment>
theatre indicator
A type of alphanumeric route indicator, normally used in conjunction with
main signals.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling
in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: theatre indicators
CL Control and communications
BT route indicator
theatrical scenery van
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of theatrical scenery.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: theatrical scenery vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <mail, parcels, etc. carrying vehicles>
thermic syphon
A device placed in the firebox to assist in the circulation of water
between boiler and firebox crown to improve the evaporation rate.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: thermic syphons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <heat exchange components>
thin card ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: thin card tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by form>
third and fourth rail collection locomotive
An electric locomotive or powered unit which collects its electric current
from a third rail and returns the current through a fourth rail rather than
through the running lines.
Warrant: Electric Railway Engineering, H F
Parshall & H M Hobart, D Van Nostrand Co., 1910
Plural form: third and fourth rail collection locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <electric locomotives by current collection>
third class carriage
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: third class carriages
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <passenger carriages by class>
third class ticket
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Tickets, Timetables &
Handbills, M I Bray, Moorland Publishing Company Ltd, 1986
Plural form: third class tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by class>
third rail
An additional rail beside the two running rails used to carry DC power to
electrified trains.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: third rails
USE positive conductor rail
CL Track and track components
BT conductor rail
third rail collection locomotive
An electric locomotive or powered unit which collects its electric current
from a third rail and returns the current through the running rails.
Warrant: Electric Locomotives and Their Development, Henry Greenly pp1-38
Plural form: third rail collections
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <electric locomotives by current collection>
third rail electric railway
A traction current collection system which uses an addition rail to
transmit the electrical supply and which is collected by shoes attached to the
train.
Warrant: Southern Electric 1909-1979, G T Moody, Ian Allan Ltd, 1979
Plural form: third rail electric railways
CL Railway types
BT electric railway
third rail electric railway equipment
The equipment used to operate the third rail electric railway system.
Warrant: Electric Railway Engineering, H F Parshall & H M Hobart, Van
Nostrand, 1910
Plural form: third rail electric railway equipment
CL Track and track components
BT conductor rail equipment
NT end post
Thomas Hughes rail
A round section rail with the ends bent down to fit into holes in the
sleepers. Patented by Thomas Hughes and used for temporary track in quarries,
etc.
Warrant: Slate Quarry Album - Welsh slate tramways and their
equipment, G & A Hatherill, RCL Publications, 2001 p14
Plural form: Thomas Hughes rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by form>
three aspect signal
A colour-light signal capable of displaying three aspects.
Warrant:
The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles,
Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: three aspect signals
CL Control and communications
BT multiple-aspect signal
three hole disc wheel
A railway vehicle wheel in which the axle and rim are joined by a disc
pierced by three holes to reduce weight without compromising strength.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: three hole disc wheels
UF 3-hole disc wheel
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT disc wheel
three link coupling
The coupling used on shunting engines and loose coupled goods vehicles
consisting of three links of chain.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing
Registers
Plural form: three link couplings
UF 3-link coupling
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
three throw slide chair
A slide chair designed to support the stock rail and two tongue rails in a
three throw switch.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and
practice, W Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p231
Plural form: three throw slide chairs
CL Track and track components
BT switch slide chair
three throw turnout
An arrangement of two turnouts with their switches lying alongside each
other.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional theory and practice, W
Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p230 Warrant: Railtrack Group Standard
Plural form: three throw turnouts
CL Track and track components
BT <turnouts by layout>
three throw turnout chair
A chair designed to support the stock rail and two tongue rails beyond the
heel of a three throw switch.
Warrant: Railway Permanent Way: Dimensional
theory and practice, W Hepworth & J T Lee, Chas Sever, 1922 p231
Plural form: three throw turnout chairs
CL Track and track components
BT turnout chair
throat plate
The front portion of the outer firebox below the boiler barrel and spanning
the firebox outer wrapper.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H
Simpson & F B Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: throat plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT firebox component
through booking ticket
A ticket issued to facilitate travel on more than one network or company's
services, e.g. travel from a main-line station to one on the London Underground.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: through booking tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type of journey>
through line
A running line at a station which has no platform so that trains do not
stop.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: through lines
CL Track and track components
BT running line
through station
A station for mainly non terminal lines.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: through stations
CL Built works and components
BT station
through train
A train that stops only at major stations.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: through trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <trains by frequency of stops>
through-type concrete sleeper
A sleeper or track tie made from a single slab of concrete.
Warrant:
British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed, The
Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979 p50
Plural form: through-type concrete sleepers
USE concrete monolithic sleeper
CL Track and track components
BT concrete sleeper
throwover
Scope note required.
Warrant: Locomotive Panorama, Vol.1, E S Cox, Ian
Allan, 1965
Plural form: throwovers
CL Control and communications
BT point lever (trackside)
thyristor
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers
Connor, 2000
Plural form: thyristors
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
ticket
A printed piece of paper, card or a metal token which shows that the bearer
has paid to travel on the train.
Warrant: Railway Tickets, Timetables &
Handbills, M I Bray, Moorland Publishing Company Ltd, 1986
Plural form: tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <permits>
NT <examples of factored ticket types>
NT <tickets by form>
NT <tickets by print features>
NT <tickets by service provided>
<ticket accessories>
Scope note required. Warrant: Railway Tickets, Timetables & Handbills,
M I Bray, Moorland Publishing Company Ltd, 1986
Plural form: <ticket accessories>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <permits>
NT free ticket envelope
NT ticket protector
NT ticket wallet
ticket bag
A canvas or leather bag normally used for collected tickets.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: ticket bags
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket bag label
A label for a canvas or leather bag normally used for collected tickets.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket bag labels
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket barrier
An opening in the rail or fence separating public areas from the train
platform, through which passengers must pass to entrain or detrain, with or
without a gate.
Warrant: Railway Relics and Regalia, Ed P Whitehouse,
Country Life, 1975
Plural form: ticket barriers
CL Built works and components
BT <station structures>
RT ticket hall barrier
ticket bearing conditions of use
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tickets bearing conditions of use
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by print features>
ticket box
A box or hopper for collected tickets usually located at a ticket barrier.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket boxes
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket canceller
A device for cancelling tickets, may be by removal of a small portion, by
embossing or by inked stamp.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket cancellers
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket clippers
A device for punching or marking tickets as proof of passage.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: ticket clipperss
CL Tools and equipment
BT ticket/fare collectors equipment
ticket dating press
A device for applying the date of issue to pre-printed tickets.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket dating presses
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
ticket dispenser
A device for retaining tickets in order for easy removal at point of issue.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket dispensers
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
ticket grippers
A hand-held device for cancelling tickets by removal of a small section of
the ticket.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket grippers
USE ticket nippers
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket hall barrier
A barrier provided in a busy ticket hall or booking office to prevent
'crowding' of persons transacting business at the ticket window.
Warrant:
Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: ticket hall barriers
CL Built works and components
BT <station structure components>
RT ticket barrier
ticket holder
A device for retaining tickets in order for easy removal at point of issue.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket holders
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
<ticket inspection equipment>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <ticket inspection equipment>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <passenger traffic accounting>
NT ticket bag
NT ticket bag label
NT ticket box
NT ticket canceller
NT ticket nipper
NT ticket punch
NT ticket shredding machine
ticket issuing machine
A machine for issuing tickets from blank paper or card roll; may be
conductor/guard operated.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket issuing machines
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
NT bell punch
NT Flexiprinter
NT Gibson machine
NT Handiprinter
NT Hugin machine
NT platform ticket machine
NT Setright machine
NT Ultimatic machine
ticket issuing machine component
Components for a machine for issuing tickets from blank paper or card roll.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket issuing machine components
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
NT Flexiprinter slug
NT Handiprinter slug
NT ticket machine backplate
NT ticket machine baseplate
NT ticket machine case
NT ticket machine handle
NT ticket machine harness
NT ticket machine indicator
NT ticket machine strap
NT ticket machine tool
ticket machine
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket machines
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
ticket machine backplate
A backplate worn by a conductor/guard upon which is mounted a portable
ticket machine.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket machine backplates
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket machine baseplate
A baseplate for a booking office ticket machine.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: ticket machine baseplates
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket machine case
A case for a portable ticket machine.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket machine cases
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket machine handle
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket machine handles
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket machine harness
A harness for wearing a portable ticket machine.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: ticket machine harnesses
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket machine indicator
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket machine indicators
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket machine strap
A strap for wearing a portable ticket machine or bell punch.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: ticket machine straps
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket machine tool
A tool used in connection with operating a ticket machine, such as a blade
for clearing jams, etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket machine tools
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket issuing machine component
ticket nipper
A hand-held device for cancelling tickets by removal of a small section of
the ticket.
Warrant: Passenger Tickets, L Wiener, The Railway Gazette,
c.1930
Plural form: ticket nippers
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket nippers
A hand-held device for cancelling tickets.
Warrant: Passenger Tickets,
L Wiener, The Railway Gazette, c.1930
Plural form: ticket nippers
UF ticket grippers
CL Tools and equipment
BT ticket/fare collectors equipment
ticket office
A room, office or structure used by clerks issuing tickets for travel to
the public.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: ticket offices
USE booking office
CL Built works and components
BT <station rooms and spaces>
<ticket printing equipment>
Equipment for pre-printing tickets. For machines that print tickets as part
of the issuing process, see 'ticket issuing machine'.
Plural form: <ticket printing equipment>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <passenger traffic accounting>
NT free pass matrix
NT ticket type
ticket protector
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket protectors
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket accessories>
ticket punch
A hand-held device for cancelling tickets by removal of a small section of
the ticket.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket punches
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket rack
A device for retaining tickets in order for easy removal and ensuring
tickets are not issued out of sequence.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket racks
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
ticket roll
A blank paper or card roll for a ticket machine.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: ticket rolls
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket selling equipment>
<ticket selling equipment>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <ticket selling equipment>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <passenger traffic accounting>
NT cash bag
NT coin acceptor
NT coin acceptor mechanism
NT coin bag
NT fares board
NT fares book
NT fares chart
NT fares list
NT fares table
NT ticket dating press
NT ticket dispenser
NT ticket holder
NT ticket issuing machine
NT ticket issuing machine component
NT ticket machine
NT ticket rack
NT ticket roll
ticket shredding machine
After return of audited tickets by the RCH, tickets were destroyed by
shredding to prevent reuse and fraud. An example of an LYR ticket shredding
machine is in the collection of the NRM.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket shredding machines
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket inspection equipment>
ticket type
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket types
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket printing equipment>
ticket wallet
A device used by passengers, usually given by the railway operator for
retaining season ticket, travelcard or pass.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket wallets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <ticket accessories>
ticket window
A window or opening in the partition between the public and the ticket
clerk, forming a secure point for sales to the public.
Warrant: Railway
Terminology Working Group
Plural form: ticket windows
CL Built works and components
BT <station structure components>
ticket/fare collectors equipment
Tools and equipment carried by ticket collectors for carrying out their
duties eg ticket clippers.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: ticket/fare collectors equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT <on-train tools and equipment>
NT fare collectors bag
NT ticket clippers
NT ticket nippers
<tickets by form>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <tickets by form>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket
NT booklet ticket
NT coupon ticket
NT Edmondson ticket
NT large card ticket
NT paper ticket
NT punch ticket
NT thin card ticket
<tickets by print features>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <tickets by print features>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket
NT child snip ticket
NT direct printed ticket
NT double coupon ticket
NT horizontally printed ticket
NT miniature repeat ticket
NT multi-coupon ticket
NT ribbon printed ticket
NT serial numbered ticket
NT series numbered ticket
NT ticket bearing conditions of use
NT title printed ticket
NT vertically printed ticket
<tickets by service provided>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <tickets by service provided>
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT ticket
NT non-travel ticket
NT travel ticket
tie (sleeper)
A sleeper, sometimes expressed as a cross tie (ie transverse sleeper). US
terminology. Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: ties
USE sleeper
CL Track and track components
BT <track bearers>
timber block sleeper
A hardwood timber block used as sleepers in the same manner as stone blocks
on early railways.
Warrant: Jim Rees, Beamish North of England Open Air
Museum
Plural form: timber block sleepers
CL Track and track components
BT wooden sleeper
timber buffer stop
Structure at the end of a track to prevent vehicles proceeding off the end
of the line, made out of wood.
Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: timber buffer stops
CL Track and track components
BT buffer stop
timber railway
Scope note required.
Warrant: The Kerry Tramway and other Timber Light
Railways, D Cox & C Krupa, Plateway Press, 1992
Plural form: timber railways
USE forestry railway
CL Railway types
BT freight railway
<timber/steel carrying vehicles>
Open freight vehicles primarily designed to carry a long load of timber or
steel, often supported on bolsters.
Plural form: <timber/steel carrying vehicles>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by load or function>
NT bogie bolster wagon
NT bolster wagon
NT deal wagon
NT hollow bolster wagon
NT pole wagon
NT single bolster wagon
NT twin articulated single bolster wagon
NT twin bolster wagon
time card
A card on which is recorded the start and finish time of an employee's
working day. This card is inserted in a time clock at the commencement of duties
('clocking on') and again at the end of a shift ('clocking off').
Warrant:
Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer,
1975
Plural form: time cards
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll documentation>
time card rack
A rack, normally adjacent to a time clock, holding employee's time cards.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: time card racks
UF time recording rack
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <employee timekeeping hardware>
time clock
A device for recording onto card, by printing, embossing or hole-punching,
the time an employee starts or finishes work.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: time clocks
UF Bundy clock
UF clocking-in clock
UF timekeepers clock
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <employee timekeeping hardware>
RT clock card
time of operation locking
The locking of facing points immediately beyond an exit signal, when a
train is approaching the signal.
Warrant: The History & Development of
Railway Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: time of operation locking
CL Control and communications
BT <track circuiting>
time recording rack
A rack, normally adjacent to a time clock, holding employee's time cards.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: time recording racks
USE time card rack
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <employee timekeeping hardware>
time release
A device of control used to prevent the operation of a signalling function
until after the lapse of a specified time.
Warrant: Lexique General de
Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: time releases
CL Control and communications
BT <track circuiting>
time sheet
A manual document that records the times an employee starts and finishes
duty.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: time sheets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll documentation>
timekeepers clock
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: timekeepers clocks
USE time clock
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <employee timekeeping hardware>
timetable
A document showing the times of train departures and arrivals at stations
and passing points, en route (cf. the Working Timetable).
Warrant: Lexique
General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: timetables
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
NT public timetable
RT working time table
timetable frame
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: timetable frames (RT)
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
timetable holder
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: timetable holders (RT)
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
timetable leaflet
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: timetable leaflets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
timetable notice
A document advising railway employees of variations to the timetable, or of
special conditions to be observed in the operation of the railway.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: timetable notices
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <advertising and publicity>
<timetabling>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <timetabling>
CL Control and communications
NT working timetable
tipping vehicle
A railway vehicle with a tilting body to facilitate discharge of its load.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tipping vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by access/discharge arrangements>
tippler wagon
A mineral wagon built without doors and emptied by being turned over bodily
by a device known as a tippler. Used particularly for the carriage of iron ore.
Warrant: British Railways Wagons - the first half million, D P Rowland, David &
Charles, 1985 p57.
Plural form: tippler wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by access/discharge arrangements>
title printed ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: title printed tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <tickets by print features>
toe
The tip of the switch rail at the end that fits against the stock rail.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: toes
CL Track and track components
BT running rail
token (drivers authority)
A device carried by a Driver as his authority to run over a single line
worked by the Electric Token Block System.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon
Buster, 1999
Plural form: tokens (drivers authority)
USE block token
CL Control and communications
BT <electric token block equipment>
token (passengers pass)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tokens (passengers pass)
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <permits>
<tokenless block system equipment>
Equipment used in the tokenless block system.
Plural form: <tokenless block system equipment>
CL Control and communications
BT <block system working>
Tommy Dod
Slang for a shunting signal. Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: Tommy Dods
USE shunting signal
CL Control and communications
BT shunting signal
tongue rail
The moving portion of rail on each side of a set of points. Warrant:
British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed),
The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979 p82
Plural form: tongue rails
USE switch rail
CL Track and track components
BT <switch rails>
RT switch (track sub-assembly)
tool van
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of tools and equipment required
during engineering operations, etc..
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tool vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <laboratory, workshop and tool vehicles>
NT rerailing equipment vehicle
TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
Tools and portable equipment, furniture, etc. Fixtures and fittings will
normally be included in the Built works class. Some portable signalling
equipment and tools (e.g. signalman's lamps and flags, reminder appliances,
point clips, detonators) are allocated to the Control and communications
class.
CL Tools and equipment
Hierarchies
NT <ceremonial tools and equipment>
NT <general tools and equipment>
NT <railway manufacturing and maintenance equipment>
NT <railway medical equipment>
NT <railway operating tools and equipment>
NT <unidentified tools and equipment>
top door rail
A horizontal structural member forming the top of a vehicle door.
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 Fig 468.
Plural form: top door rails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle door framing
top feed
The non return valve allowing the admission of boiler feed water directly
into the boiler steam space, mounted on top of the boiler.
Warrant: Great
Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: top feeds
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler assembly
top light rail
A horizontal structural member running along the vehicle body side
immediately above the quarter lights.
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: top light rails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT side framing
top light rail moulding
The horizontal moulding placed over the joint between the top quarter panel
and the top of the quarter lights and upright panel, along the line of the top
light rail.
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: top light rail mouldings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body moulding
top quarter panel
The panel immediately above the quarter lights on a carriage body.
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: top quarter panels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body panel
<TOPS equipment>
Total Operations Processing System: a computerised system of train movement
operation. Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: <TOPS equipment>
CL Control and communications
BT <train control>
torpedo 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: torpedo ventilators
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT roof ventilator
totem
A graphic design acting as a corporate identifier, often incorporating the
initials of the organisation or related conceptual symbolism.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: totems
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <corporate identity>
totem sign
A sign, usually showing the name of a station, following a particular
design motif.
Warrant: A Collector's Guide to Railwayana, Handel Kardas
(Ed), Ian Allan Publishing Ltd, 2001
Plural form: totem signs
CL Built works and components
BT station name sign
Toton signal
An indicator for controlling loading or unloading movements.
Warrant:
The History & Development of Railway Signalling in the British Isles,
Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: Toton signals
CL Control and communications
BT <signals by function>
tourist ticket
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tourist tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type or age of traveller>
tow bar
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: tow bars
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <unattributed vehicle components>
tower wagon
A railborne vehicle providing access to overhead lines and other overhead
structures for installation and maintenance purposes.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: tower wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <overhead structure maintenance vehicles>
TPO
A carriage exclusively devoted to the carriage of mail in which letters are
sorted during the journey to save time.
Warrant: Mail by Rail, P Johnson,
Ian Allan Publishing, 1995
Plural form: TPOs
USE travelling post office
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT mail van
track
The running lines and sidings of a railway or tramway.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: tracks
CL Track and track components
NT <track by construction>
NT <track by permanence>
track and service car
A railway maintenance vehicle which can carry materials plus workers to and
from the work site.
Warrant: On-track plant on British Railways, Roger
Butcher, Platform 5 Publishing Ltd, 4th edition, 1981, p13
Plural form: track and service cars
UF TASC
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <track maintenance vehicles>
TRACK AND TRACK COMPONENTS
Track types, assemblies, sub assemblies and individual components. Includes
the trackbed, rails and associated features such as rail lubricators, etc. Also
includes individual lines of track (e.g. fast line, goods line, up line, passing
loop, siding) but not a complete section of railway (as in branch line,
junction, etc.) which is treated as a route complex in the Built works
class.
CL Track and track components
Hierarchies
NT line (track)
NT track
NT track component
NT trackwork
NT <track areas>
NT <traction supply equipment>
NT <unidentified track>
<track areas by function>
Areas of the trackbed defined by their function.
Plural form: <track areas by function>
CL Track and track components
BT <track areas>
NT catch pit
NT dish
NT drainage
NT hole
NT kip
NT walkway
<track areas by position>
Areas of the trackbed defined by virtue of their position.
Plural form: <track areas by position>
CL Track and track components
BT <track areas>
NT four foot
NT six foot
NT ten foot
<track areas>
Topological features on the permanent way that do not exist as objects as
such.
Plural form: <track areas>
CL Track and track components
NT <track areas by function>
NT <track areas by position>
<track bearers>
Sleepers, blocks, etc. used to spread the load of passing trains to the
ballast.
Plural form: <track bearers>
CL Track and track components
BT track component
NT sill
NT sleeper
NT waybeam
<track by construction>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <track by construction>
CL Track and track components
BT track
NT <track by jointing>
NT <track by rail type>
NT <track by support>
<track by jointing>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <track by jointing>
CL Track and track components
BT <track by construction>
NT continuous welded track
NT jointed track
<track by permanence>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <track by permanence>
CL Track and track components
BT track
NT permanent way
NT temporary track
<track by rail type>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <track by rail type>
CL Track and track components
BT <track by construction>
NT bullhead track
NT flat bottomed track
NT plateway track
<track by support>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <track by support>
CL Track and track components
BT <track by construction>
NT slab track
NT sleepered track
track circuit
An electrical device using the rail in an electric circuit, which detects
the absence of trains on a defined section of line.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: track circuits
UF rail circuit
CL Control and communications
BT <track circuiting>
NT berth track circuit
NT jointless track circuit
NT overlay track circuit
NT protection circuit
RT track circuit diagram
RT track circuit indicator
track circuit bonding strip
The metal bonding strip ensuring electrical contact between rail ends.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: track circuit bonding strips
CL Control and communications
BT track circuit component
track circuit clip
A safety device carried in driving cabs and guard's bags, which is placed
on the track and, by short-circuiting the track circuit, places the signal in
rear at red.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: track circuit clips
CL Control and communications
BT <track circuiting>
track circuit component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: track circuit components
CL Control and communications
BT <track circuiting>
NT track circuit bonding strip
NT track circuit insulation
NT track circuit isolating joint
NT track circuit plate
track circuit diagram
The diagram in the signalbox showing the layout of the track circuit (may
be part of the signal diagram).
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations,
National Railway Museum
Plural form: track circuit diagrams
CL Control and communications
BT track diagram
RT track circuit
track circuit indicator
An electrical indicator showing the status of the track circuit.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: track circuit indicators
CL Control and communications
BT <control displays and indicators>
RT track circuit
track circuit insulation
Neoprene material used to insulate the fishplates and bolts from the rail
ends.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: track circuit insulation
CL Control and communications
BT track circuit component
track circuit isolating joint
Neoprene material used to insulate the fishplates and bolts from the rail
ends.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: track circuit isolating joints
CL Control and communications
BT track circuit component
track circuit operating clip
A safety device carried in driving cabs and guard's bags, which is placed
on the track and, by short-circuiting the track circuit, places the signal in
rear at red.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway Signalling
in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: track circuit operating clips
CL Control and communications
BT <track circuiting>
track circuit plate
A cast iron plate fixed to the railway sleeper to show the number and
position of the individual track circuit.
Warrant: Ray Towell, Curator of
Operations, National Railway Museum
Plural form: track circuit plates
CL Control and communications
BT track circuit component
track circuit repeater
An electro-mechanical device in a signalbox which provides the clear and
occupied status of an individual track circuit.
Warrant: A Pictorial Record
of Great Western Signalling, A Vaughan, Oxford Publishing Company, Revised Edn,
1984 p99
Plural form: track circuit repeaters
CL Control and communications
BT <control displays and indicators>
RT track circuit
<track circuiting>
An electrical device using the rail in an electric circuit, which detects
the absence of trains on a defined section of line. Warrant: Railtrack Jargon
Buster, 1999
Plural form: <track circuiting>
CL Control and communications
BT <train detection systems>
NT time of operation locking
NT time release
NT track circuit
NT track circuit clip
NT track circuit component
NT track circuit operating clip
<track cleaning, greasing and adhesion equipment>
All machinery, tools and equipment used for cleaning, lubricating and
maintaining the railway track. Warrant: National Railway Museum
Plural form: <track cleaning, greasing and adhesion equipment>
CL Tools and equipment
BT <permanent way tools and equipment>
NT handite
NT sandite
<track clearing components>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <track clearing components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT vehicle component
NT guard iron
NT sleet brush (vehicle component)
NT snow plough (attachment)
track component
An individual component of the railway track.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: track components
UF permanent way component
CL Track and track components
NT buffer stop component
NT rail joint component
NT track fastening
NT trackbed component
NT <cross ties>
NT <rack adhesion components>
NT <rail supports>
NT <track bearers>
NT <track maintenance assemblies>
