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Transportation

Any mode or method of locomotion that serves to move people, goods or services from one location to another.

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superheater
Transportation; Railway

Device designed to increase the temperature of the steam supplying the cylinders, so as to improve the locomotive's efficiency. Garbe created the first application of the system ...

container
Transportation; Railway

The container was invented in the USA as a sort of metallic recipient for goods and substances, consequently making it easier to transport and handle them, guarantee their ...

all-relay interlocking with sectional route release
Transportation; Railway

Signalbox with push-button route-setting free from any mechanical interlocking and equipped with sectional release route locking, whereby all interlockings are performed using ...

swap body
Transportation; Railway

Name given to a variety of container.

contraflow track
Transportation; Railway

System for running a line with one or more tracks used by trains travelling in both directions. On these tracks, safety devices are installed to ensure that trains are not ...

ambulance train
Transportation; Railway

Standard train used during WWI for ferrying patients. The train included a pharmacy car, kitchens, a personnel car, a brake car and a stores van.

swing bridge
Transportation; Railway

Bridge fitted with rails that can rotate 360° and generally used in depots for turning locomotives (as steam engines only had one driver's cab, they had to be turned to face the ...

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