Railway

Railway

Relating to the infrastructure developed for the transport of trains.

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tractive effort

Transportation; Railway

The force exerted at the edge of the driving wheel of a locomotive expressed in pounds.

tube cleaning

Transportation; Railway

The removal of soot and ash from the inside of boiler tubes to ensure the effective generation of the draught for the fire. Was often done with steam lances, latterly with compressed air and ...

tube plates

Transportation; Railway

The plates at the leading and rear ends of a boiler which were drilled with holes of the diameter required to hold the boiler tubes. The leading tube plate separated the boiler from the smokebox, ...

superheater header

Transportation; Railway

The connection box mounted in the smokebox next to the tube plate which contains the incoming saturated steam pipe and the tubes for superheating the steam. Some designs of superheater header ...

Extensions to the piston rods which protruded through the front of the cylinders so fitted. Tried from time to time during the 1890s and early 1900s, fitting tail rods was said either to save wear on ...

return flue boiler

Transportation; Railway

A type of boiler used for some locomotives in the 1820s and 1830s where the single flue was turned back to provide double the heating surface for the water in the boiler. It required the chimney to ...