Railway

Railway

Relating to the infrastructure developed for the transport of trains.

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johnson bar

Transportation; Railway

US term for the reversing lever in the locomotive cab.

journal

Transportation; Railway

The housing in which the axle turns. A source of much trouble if not kept lubricated properly.

fairlie locomotive

Transportation; Railway

An articulated type of locomotive designed by Robert F Fairlie in 1865. The design was popular on narrow gauge lines. The frame was mounted on to one or two engine units which could move ...

The means of getting fresh water into the boiler from the tank before injectors became common from the 1860s. Pumps could be worked off an extension of the piston rod, the engine crosshead or from an ...

feed water heating

Transportation; Railway

Various means of pre-heating the water supplied to the boiler were tried over the 125 years of steam locomotive development. In 1854 Joseph Beattie of the London & South Western Railway introduced a ...

fell system

Transportation; Railway

A system which allows locomotives to climb gradients at or over the limit of adhesion by means of a central third rail. The locomotives are equipped with a second set of cylinders driving wheels ...

joy valve gear

Transportation; Railway

A valve gear designed by David Joy in 1879 and quite widely used over the next 30 years. It was simpler than other valve gears but required the provision of a hole for a link in the connecting rod ...