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

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automatic train protection (ATP)
Transportation; Railway

The automatic train protection system is designed to complement the AWS system and ensures that drivers slow down or stop when required. To do so, it picks up signals transmitted ...

tank locomotive
Transportation; Railway

Steam locomotive with its own water supply. With this type of locomotive, a "T" is normally suffixed to the wheel arrangement, such as 0-6-0T.

crossing keeper
Transportation; Railway

Employee whose duties include managing the barriers of a level crossing.

austerity
Transportation; Railway

Nickname given to 2-8-0 steam locomotives brought over to France from England during the Second World War.

telephone block
Transportation; Railway

Spacing between trains provided on certain lines through telephone communications between the stations, which announce the trains and then free the track (clearing the line) ...

cross-piece
Transportation; Railway

Removable part of the floor of a low-sided open wagon that can be used as a guide, raceway, and so on, when lifted up. When replaced, the cross-piece leaves a perfectly flat ...

automatic braking
Transportation; Railway

A train is automatically braked by the ATP system if the on-board computer thinks that the driver has not reduced the train's speed sufficiently or quickly enough. A short visual ...

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