Railway

Railway

Relating to the infrastructure developed for the transport of trains.

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steam tender

Transportation; Railway

A design of tender which had its own engines introduced in 1863 by Archibald Sturrock on the Great Northern Railway of the UK. Two cylinders were mounted inside the tender frames and drove six ...

First used by Stephenson in 1833 on his Patentee locomotive and tried in the US in 1848 on the Boston and Providence RR. Later widely used both separately and in conjunction with automatic brakes, ...

steam chest

Transportation; Railway

The internal part of a locomotive's cylinder block where the valve chamber connects with the steam supply and exhaust pipes.

steam pipe

Transportation; Railway

The pipe which connects the regulator valve with the cylinder steam chest where the valves are located. Steam passes down this pipe when the regulator valve is opened by the driver. In superheated ...