Railway

Railway

Relating to the infrastructure developed for the transport of trains.

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reverser

Transportation; Railway

The locomotive's forward and reverse control, which is also used to adjust cut off to vary the steam admission and expansion cycles in the cylinders. The direction of movement for a locomotive is ...

reverser, air

Transportation; Railway

A power assisted reverser which used air pressure supplied from the air brake compressor. The device first appeared in 1882 on the London Brighton & South Coast Railway.

A method for operating reversing gear using steam power first introduced by James Stirling in 1874. Two cylinders, one steam and one oil and connected by a rod, were mounted outside the boiler. Often ...

rocking grate

Transportation; Railway

A system for allowing the firebars to be shaken by use of controls in the cab, usually hand operated in the UK or steam operated elsewhere. The purpose was to assist with fire cleaning and the break ...

ross pop safety valve

Transportation; Railway

A type of safety valve designed to act in two stages to prevent 'dribbling' of steam from a boiler at full pressure. Designed by RL Ross in 1902 and later to become widely used in the UK.

running plate

Transportation; Railway

The narrow horizontal walkway seen at roughly boiler base level on most steam locomotives, along which it was possible to access parts of the boiler and its attachments. Also sometimes used to ...

smoke deflectors

Transportation; Railway

Early locomotives had tall chimneys to carry the exhaust clear of the driver's line of sight but, as boilers increased in size, the height of chimneys was reduced to keep locomotives within loading ...