Railway

Railway

Relating to the infrastructure developed for the transport of trains.

Industry: Transportation

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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 designed by his ...

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 conservation and if ...

all-relay interlocking with sectional route release

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

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 dispatched in head-on ...

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 right direction) or ...