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[Contents]
wages bag
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wages bags
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <payroll hardware>
waggon repair shop
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: waggon repair shops
USE wagon repair shop
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair structures>
waggon shed
A shed to house waggonway wagons. The old spelling is used as, so far as is
known, no such buildings date from the more modern period and so the spelling
'wagon shed' has never been applied.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: waggon sheds
CL Built works and components
BT <vehicle stabling and servicing structures>
waggonway
A seventeenth and eighteenth century term for tramroad or tramway.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: waggonways
CL Railway types
BT colliery railway
wagon
A railway vehicle for the conveyance of goods.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: wagons
USE railway wagon
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <rolling stock by generic name>
wagon component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wagon components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <components by type of vehicle>
wagon examiners hut
A lineside hut, usually situated in a yard or siding, for the use of a
wagon examiner.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: wagon examiners huts
CL Built works and components
BT <vehicle stabling and servicing structures>
wagon label
Scope note required.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares,
Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: wagon labels
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
wagon label clip
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wagon label clips
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <signalling and control components>
wagon number plate
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wagon number plates
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT number plate
wagon repair shop
A workshop which is used for the maintenance and repair of railway wagons.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: wagon repair shops
UF waggon repair shop
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair structures>
wagon sheet
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wagon sheets
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <load support and securing components>
wagon stock book
A document recording the details of goods wagons in service with the
railway. Used for establishing ownership, maintenance and replacement schedules.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wagon stock books
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <stock registers>
wagon turntable
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wagon turntables
CL Track and track components
BT turntable
waist
The widest part of the body of a railway or tramway vehicle.
Warrant:
The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan
Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: waists
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <bodywork areas>
waist panel
The panel immediately below 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: waist panels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body panel
waist rail
A longitudinal vehicle body structural member at mid height between floor
and cant rail.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: waist rails
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT side framing
waist rail moulding
The horizontal moulding placed over the joint between the waist panel and
the bottom quarter panel, along the line of the waist 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: waist rail mouldings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT body moulding
Walchearts valve gear
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: Walchearts valve gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear
walkway
A foot or horse path along or across the tracks for the use of staff or
haulage animals.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and
Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed), The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979
p158.
Plural form: walkways
CL Track and track components
BT <track areas by function>
NT attendant path
NT horse path
wall lamp
A lamp which is supported on a bracket fixed to the wall of a building.
Warrant: Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: wall lamps
CL Built works and components
BT <fixed lighting by form>
Walschaerts valve gear
A very widely adopted form of steam locomotive valve gear in which movement
is generated from both the piston crosshead and a single eccentric or return
crank, invented by Egide Walschaerts.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An
A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: Walschaerts valve gears
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear
Ward coupler
An obsolete mechanical coupler used on some LUL engineers vehicles.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: Ward couplers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
warehouse
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Commercial Traffic, H F
Sanderson, Vol.2 Freight, Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1952
Plural form: warehouses
CL Built works and components
BT <freight transhipment structures>
warning board
A board exhibiting stripe or bar markings to warn drivers they are
approaching a distant signal.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of
Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: warning boards
USE distant warning board
CL Control and communications
BT <fixed signal boards>
<warning devices>
Devices such as whistles, horns, gongs, etc. carried on a locomotive or
leading vehicle primarily to give an audible warning of the approach of the
train, although they may also be used to communicate more sophisticated messages
to signalmen, shunters, etc.
Plural form: <warning devices>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <driving and control components>
NT horn (acoustic)
NT locomotive bell
NT whistle
NT whistle control
NT whistle isolating cock control
warning indicator
A warning sign to a driver that he is approaching a permanent speed
restriction ahead.
Warrant: The History & Development of Railway
Signalling in the British Isles, Friends of the National Railway Museum
Plural form: warning indicators
CL Control and communications
BT permanent speed restriction sign
warning rattle
An audible device in which a wooden baton strikes against a ratchet when
swung round.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: warning rattles
CL Tools and equipment
BT lookouts equipment
warning sign
A wooden or metal sign indicating a specific hazard or instruction.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: warning signs
CL Control and communications
BT <non-specific control equipment>
warning signal
A signal used only in specially authorised locations to indicate that a
driver may move past a stop signal at danger in conjunction with the 'warning
arrangement' (rule 5).
Warrant: British Railway Signalling, G Kichenside &
A Williams, Ian Allan, 1963 p21
Plural form: warning signals
CL Control and communications
BT subsidiary signal
warrant
A document issued to individuals such as employees, service personnel,
scholars, etc. by their parent organisation, which could be exchanged for
railway tickets of a prescribed class/destination.
Warrant: Lexique General
de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: warrants
USE travel warrant
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <permits>
washoff
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: washoffs
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
washout plug
A plug fitted in the sides of a locomotive firebox to enable scale to be
washed out.
Warrant: Locomotives and Their Working, C R H Simpson & F B
Roberts, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1952
Plural form: washout plugs
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT boiler component
waste product
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: waste products
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <consumables>
NT exhaust steam
NT spent fuel
water balance railway
A counterbalanced railway where the weight of the descending load is
supplemented by a tank of water that is filled at the top of the incline and
emptied at the bottom, thus allowing the working of loads when the principle
traffic flow is not consistently down hill.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: water balance railways
CL Railway types
BT counterbalanced railway
water board railway
A permanent railway laid to facilitate the operation of a reservoir and
associated works.
Warrant: Reservoir Railways of the Yorkshire Pennines, H
D Bowtell, The Oakwood Press, 1979
Plural form: water board railways
CL Railway types
BT industrial railway
RT reservoir railway
<water collection components>
A vehicle component concerned with the collection of water. Includes water
scoops and associated control equipment.
Plural form: water collection components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage and handling components>
NT water scoop
water column
A standpipe fitted with a leather hose and connected to a water supply for
filling locomotive water tanks.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers
Connor, 2000
Plural form: water columns
CL Built works and components
BT <motive power stabling and servicing structures>
water crane
A lineside appliance fed from a water tank or cistern and comprising a
vertical hollow pillar carrying a horizontal revolving arm fitted with a
flexible hose (or bag) for filling steam locomotive water tanks, typically
located at the forward end of a station platform.
Warrant: Railway
Appliances, John Wolf Barry, Longmans, Green and Co, 1876 p224
Plural form: water cranes
CL Built works and components
BT <motive power stabling and servicing structures>
<water feed components>
A vehicle component concerned with the supply of water to the boiler.
Plural form: water feed components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage and handling components>
NT check valve
NT clack box
NT clack valve body
NT combined steam and delivery valve
NT feed pump
NT grease separator drip valve
NT injector
NT injector component
water gauge
A strong glass tube fitted in a steam locomotive cab to show the level of
the water in the boiler.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: water gauges
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <fuel and water controls and gauges>
water scoop
A device for picking up water at speed from a trough laid between the
rails, utilising the momentum of the locomotive.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: water scoops
UF scoop
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water collection components>
<water storage and handling components>
A vehicle component concerned with the collection, storage and supply of
water for locomotive boilers, lavatories, catering facilities, etc.
Plural form: <water storage and handling components>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <consumables storage and handling components>
NT <water collection components>
NT <water feed components>
NT <water storage components>
<water storage components>
A vehicle component concerned with the storage of water. Includes carriage
water tanks.
Plural form: water storage components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage and handling components>
NT balancing pipe
NT carriage water tank
NT filler
NT locomotive water tank
NT tank assembly
NT tender water tank assembly
NT water tank filler
NT water tank vent
water tank filler
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: water tank fillers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
water tank vent
A vent in the water tank of a steam locomotive to allow the displacement of
air during rapid filling or emptying.
Warrant: Great Western Railway
Drawing Registers
Plural form: water tank vents
UF vent (water tank)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
water tank wagon
A tank wagon for the conveyance of water.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: water tank wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <vehicles for stores and consumables>
water tank (carriage component)
A water tank provided on a carriage to supply water to lavatory facilities,
kitchens, etc.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: water tanks (carriage components)
USE carriage water tank
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
water tank (locomotive component)
A water tank provided on a locomotive or tender to supply water to the
boiler.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: water tanks (locomotive components)
USE locomotive water tank
UF tank (water - locomotive component)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <water storage components>
water tower
An elevated water storage tank.
Warrant: UK Heritage Railways -
Glossary & Technical Diagrams
Plural form: water towers
CL Built works and components
BT <motive power stabling and servicing structures>
water trough
A narrow and lengthy trough placed between the rails from which water could
be scooped up into the water tanks of steam locomotives travelling at speed.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: water troughs
UF track pan
UF troughs
CL Track and track components
BT <track sub-assemblies>
water tube
A tube fitted across the firebox in an attempt to improve the circulation
of water between the legs of the firebox.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web
Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: water tubes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <heat exchange components>
wattmeter
A calibrated instrument for measuring electric power in watts.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: wattmeters
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general test equipment>
wax thermostat
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wax thermostats
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
waybeam
A large cross section baulk of timber used on some bridges, positioned
under each rail longitudinally, to act as a beam and as securing point for
baseplates.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: waybeams
UF longitudinal timber
UF wheeltimber
CL Track and track components
BT <track bearers>
RT longitudinal sleeper
waybill
Scope note required.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares,
Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: waybills
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
waybill holder
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: waybill holders
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <parcel and freight traffic accounting>
weatherboard
The screen around the back of the firebox of steam locomtives originally
forming the only weather protection for the enginemen.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: weatherboards
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <bodywork areas>
wedge valve gear
A type of valve gear which had two eccentrics on a two-cylinder locomotive
instead of four. The single eccentric for each cylinder was changed from forward
to reverse by drawing a wedge along a square section of the axle through sheaf
to adjust its offset.
Warrant: Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor,
2000
Plural form: wedge valve gear
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT valve gear
wedge (coupling component)
The mechanical part of the wedgelock autocoupler which locks the adjacent
tongues when coupled.
Warrant: LUL Jargon Buster
Plural form: wedges (coupling components)
USE autocoupler wedge
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling component
wedge (rail key)
A track component that holds bullhead and similar rail securely in the rail
chair.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale
des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: wedges (rail keys)
USE rail key
CL Track and track components
BT <rail fastenings>
wedgelock autocoupler
A type of centre coupling which gives and instantaneous linkage between
cars of all electrical and mechanical connections.
Warrant: The Railway
Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: wedgelock autocouplers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
wedgelock emergency coupler
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wedgelock emergency couplers
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT coupling
weedkilling train
Scope note required.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares,
Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, 1975
Plural form: weedkilling trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT service train
weekend ticket
A ticket valid for travel only during the weekend period, offered at a
discounted price to the regular fare.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: weekend tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by discount, etc.>
weekly ticket
A ticket valid for a number of journeys within one week.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: weekly tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by number of journeys>
weighbridge
A weighing machine with a platform onto which a vehicle may be placed to be
weighed.
Warrant: Encyclopedia of Railways, O S Nock, 1977
Plural form: weighbridges
CL Built works and components
BT <freight transhipment structures>
weighing equipment
Specialist equipment used for measuring the weight of goods and equipment.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: weighing equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT engineering workshop tools and equipment
NT locomotive weighing equipment
weighing machine van
A railway vehicle equipped as a mobile workshop with tools and equipment
for the testing and maintenance of weighing machines on railway premises.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: weighing machine vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <laboratory, workshop and tool vehicles>
welded continuous rail
Rails welded together to form a single rail length over 36m, or 55m in
tunnels with a limited temperature range.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: welded continuous rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by treatment>
welded vee
Two pieces of rail, with parts of the head and foot removed by machining,
placed either side of a filler plate so as to form a weld preparation.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: welded vees
CL Track and track components
BT crossing vee
well tank
A water tank slung between the frames, often under the footplate, providing
a useful low centre of gravity, increasing stability on light or poorly laid
track.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: well tanks
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT locomotive water tank
well 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: well tank and tender locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank and tender locomotive
well tank locomotive
A type of steam locomotive in which the water is stored in a tank slung
between the frames, often under the footplate, providing a useful low centre of
gravity, increasing stability on light or poorly laid track.
Warrant: The
Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton
Publishing, 1996
Plural form: well tank locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT tank locomotive
well wagon
A bogie wagon with a dip in the central section between the bogies which
enables high loads to be carried without fouling the loading gauge.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson,
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: well wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
Welwyn control
In absolute block, prevents the signalman from accepting a second train
without the first having occupied and cleared the home signal berth track
circuit. Introduced following an accident at Welwyn.
Warrant: Railtrack
Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: Welwyn controls
CL Control and communications
BT <block system working>
RT emergency release
Welwyn release
A mechanically actuated release mechanism used to bypass the Welwyn
control..
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway Terminology,
Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: Welwyn releases
CL Control and communications
BT <block system working>
westcode
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: westcodes
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
Westinghouse brake
A compressed air automatic braking system invented by the US engineer
George Westinghouse.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: westinghouse brakes
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT automatic air brake
Westinghouse braked vehicle
A vehicle fitted with the Westinghouse continuous air brake.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: Westinghouse braked vehicles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT air braked vehicle
Wetli system locomotive
Scope note required.
Warrant: Railway Wonders of the World, C J Allen
Plural form: Wetli systems
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT rack locomotive
wheel
Scope note required.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing Registers
Plural form: wheels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <wheel assemblies>
NT <wheels by form>
NT <wheels by function>
wheel and propeller wagon
A railway vehicle dedicated to the carriage of large pulleys and sheaves,
ship's propellers, etc. that could not be accommodated within gauge on general
merchandise wagons.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wheel and propeller wagons
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <machinery, etc. carrying vehicles>
<wheel assemblies>
Wheels and bearings and their associated components.
Plural form: <wheel assemblies>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT running gear
NT axle
NT axlebox
NT axlebox component
NT journal (axle component)
NT motor and wheelset
NT wheel
NT wheel component
NT wheel set
NT wheel trim
wheel burned rail
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wheel burned rails
CL Track and track components
BT damaged rail
wheel component
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wheel components
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <wheel assemblies>
NT balance weight (locomotive component)
NT boss (wheel)
NT crank pin
NT crankpin nut
NT flange
NT tyre
wheel set
A pair of wheels mounted on their axle.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wheel sets
UF wheelset
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <wheel assemblies>
NT radial axle
<wheel supports and guides>
Track components such as plates and rails that directly support and/or
guide the wheels of vehicles using the track.
Plural form: <wheel supports and guides>
CL Track and track components
BT track component
NT plate rail
NT rail
wheel trim
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wheel trims
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <wheel assemblies>
wheel truing machine
A portable machine for reprofiling rolling stock wheels.
Warrant:
Railway Technical Web Pages, Piers Connor, 2000
Plural form: wheel truing machines
CL Tools and equipment
BT machine tool
wheel turning lathe
A special lathe for turning railway wheels and the metal tyres on railway
wheels.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wheel turning lathes
UF railway wheel lathe
CL Tools and equipment
BT lathe
wheeled barrow
A two-wheeled handcart.
Warrant: Oxford English Dictionary
Plural form: wheeled barrows
CL Tools and equipment
BT <general tools and equipment>
<wheels by form>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <wheels by form>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT wheel
NT disc wheel
NT spoked wheel
<wheels by function>
Scope note required.
Plural form: <wheels by functions>
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT wheel
NT locomotive driving wheel
wheelset
A pair of wheels mounted on their axle. Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An
A-Z of Railway Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: wheelsets
USE wheel set
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <wheel assemblies>
wheelskate
A device used in the case of a locomotive or vehicle having a wheel which
is seized and will not rotate freely, to enable it to be moved clear of a
running line.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: wheelskates
CL Tools and equipment
BT breakdown equipment
wheelslide protection system
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wheelslide protection systems
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
wheeltimber
A large cross section baulk of timber used on some bridges, positioned
under each rail longitudinally, to act as a beam and as securing point for
baseplates.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: wheeltimbers
USE waybeam
CL Track and track components
BT <track bearers>
wheel-tappers hammer
A long handled, light hammer used by carriage and wagon examiners for
detecting possible cracked wheels by the sound they make when struck.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wheel-tappers hammers
CL Tools and equipment
BT <carriage and wagon tools and equipment>
whistle
An audible warning device.
Warrant: Great Western Railway Drawing
Registers
Plural form: whistles
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <warning devices>
NT locomotive steam whistle
NT locomotive whistle
NT steam whistle
RT boiler fitting
whistle board
A lineside board which indicates to train drivers where they are required
to sound a warning.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: whistle boards
CL Built works and components
BT <signs and markers>
whistle control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: whistle controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <warning devices>
whistle isolating cock control
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: whistle isolating cock controls
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <warning devices>
wicket
A small gate sometimes provided for pedestrians at a level crossing.
Warrant: Railtrack London & North Eastern, A Glossary of Railway Terms,
October 1998
Plural form: wickets
USE wicket gate (level crossing)
CL Control and communications
BT level crossing gate
wicket gate (level crossing)
A small gate sometimes provided for pedestrians at a level crossing.
Warrant: Railtrack Jargon Buster, 1999
Plural form: wicket gates (level crossing)
UF wicket
CL Control and communications
BT level crossing gate
window component (building)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: window components (building)
CL Built works and components
BT <built work components by type>
window component (vehicle)
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: window components (vehicle)
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <natural lighting components>
NT carriage window finger plate
NT carriage window glass
NT droplight component
NT quarter light pillar
window strap
A heavy leather strap used to lower, raise and secure a droplight.
Warrant: Lexique General de Termes Ferroviares, Union Internationale des Chemins
de Fer, 1975
Plural form: window straps
UF glass string
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT droplight component
<wire transmission>
Equipment that transmits control from the control point to the equipment to
be actuated by means of wires. Typically used for actuating signals in manual
signalling installations.
Plural form: <wire transmission>
CL Control and communications
BT <mechanical transmission>
NT pulley guide
NT pulley wheel (signalling)
NT signal pulley
NT signal wire bell crank
NT signal wire tensioner
wiring loom
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wiring looms
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <secondary electrical circuitry>
wood burning locomotive
A steam locomotive which burns wood as a power source (generally in a
larger firebox than comparable coal burning machines).
Warrant: A History
of the American Locomotive, John H White, Dover Publications Inc, 1979
Plural form: wood burning locomotives
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <steam locomotives by fuel>
wood key
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wood keys
UF oak block (rail fastening)
UF oak key
CL Track and track components
BT rail key
wooden rail
Early rail made of wood.
Warrant: Jim Rees, Beamish North of England
Open Air Museum
Plural form: wooden rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by material>
NT wooden rail with running strip
wooden rail with running strip
Wooden rail with an extra wearing face applied to the top of the rail,
regularly replaced when worn.
Warrant: Jim Rees, Beamish North of England
Open Air Museum
Plural form: wooden rails with running strips
CL Track and track components
BT wooden rail
wooden railway
Scope note required.
Warrant: Early Wooden Railways, M J T Lewis,
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970
Plural form: wooden railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways by form>
NT Prossers wooden railway
wooden sleeper
A sleeper or track tie made from timber, used to support two running rails
at a fixed gauge.
Warrant: British Railway Track: Design, Construction and
Maintenance, C L Heeler (Ed, The Permanent Way Institution, 5th Edition, 1979
p48
Plural form: wooden sleepers
CL Track and track components
BT <sleepers by material>
NT hardwood sleeper
NT hardwood transverse sleeper
NT softwood sleeper
NT softwood transverse sleeper
NT timber block sleeper
working timetable
The working document according to which passenger and freight trains are
operated on a railway.
Warrant: The Express Train and Other Railway
Studies, J Simmons, David St John Thomas Publisher, 1994
Plural form: working timetables
CL Control and communications
BT <timetabling>
RT passenger timetable
workmans ticket
A ticket issued at a discounted fare for travel on workmans trains.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: workmans tickets
CL Commercial records and equipment
BT <travel tickets by type or age of traveller>
workmans train
A special train provided for workers travelling daily to and from work at a
reduced fare.
Warrant: The Victorian Railway, J Simmons, Thames &
Hudson, 1990
Plural form: workmans trains
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT passenger train
works building
A building associated with a railway factory or works.
Warrant:
Railway Terminology Working Group
Plural form: works buildings
CL Built works and components
BT <construction and repair structures>
works plate
A cast metal plate identifying the vehicle date and location of manufacture
of the vehicle to which it affixed.
Warrant: British Locomotive Builders'
Plates, K Buckle & D Love, Midland Publishing Ltd, 1994
Plural form: works plates
UF builders plate
UF makers plate
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <builders identity plates>
NT carriage works plate
NT locomotive works plate
works railway
An internal railway system serving a railway works.
Warrant: An
Illustrated History of British Railways' Workshops, E Larkin, Oxford Publishing
Company, 1992
Plural form: works railways
CL Railway types
BT <railways supporting other transport systems>
RT factory railway
workshop document
n/r.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: workshop documents
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway manufacturing and maintenance equipment>
NT repair book
workshop equipment
All the hand and machine tools used in railway workshops.
Literary
warrant required.
Plural form: workshop equipment
CL Tools and equipment
BT <railway manufacturing and maintenance equipment>
NT engineering workshop tools and equipment
NT paintshop tools and equipment
workshop van
A railway vehicle equipped as a mobile workshop.
Literary warrant
required.
Plural form: workshop vans
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <laboratory, workshop and tool vehicles>
worm wheel
Used as model locomotive gear drive.
Warrant: Electric Locomotives and
Railways, H Greenly, no date p205
Plural form: worm wheels
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT <power transmission components>
worsted oil trimming
Strands of worsted used as a wick to maintain constant lubrication in
locomotives and rolling stock.
Warrant: Locomotives, their construction,
maintenance and operation, A Morton Bell, Virtue & Co Ltd, 1946
Plural form: worsted oil trimmings
CL Vehicles and vehicle components
BT oil trimming
wrist band
Scope note required.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wrist bands
CL Unidentified
BT <unidentified terms>
wrong line order form
A form authorising the movement of a train in the wrong direction during
emergencies.
Warrant: The Railway Dictionary, An A-Z of Railway
Terminology, Alan A Jackson, Alan Sutton Publishing, 1996
Plural form: wrong line order forms
CL Control and communications
BT <emergency working forms and equipment>
wrought iron fish bellied rail
An early form of rail made from wrought iron with convex under-section to
add strength.
Warrant: Modern British Permanent Way, C J Allen, The Railway
News, 1915
Plural form: wrought iron fish bellied rails
CL Track and track components
BT fish bellied rail
RT wrought iron rail
wrought iron rail
Rail made from wrought iron.
Literary warrant required.
Plural form: wrought iron rails
CL Track and track components
BT <rails by material>
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