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- A.I.R.P.S.
- Association of Independent Railway Preservation Societies
- Axle Box
- ??
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- Bagnall
- Bagnall
- Bardic Lamp
- This is a special rugged torch with coloured filters. It can be used with
a white light as a torch, and with the Red, Green and Orange filters can be
used for signalling to other people on the railway at night time.
- Block System
- Blocks provide a method of stopping one train from running to the rear of
another.
- Brick Arch
- The Brick Arch is located in the fire-box above the fire and below the
tube plate, so making a combustion chamber above the arch. This helps to ensure
that all the volatile material from the coal is burnt in the fire box.
- BSK
- Corridor Brake Second - a Coach with second class seating with a corridor
to adjoining coaches, and a guards compartment.
- BSO
- Brake Open Second - a Coach with second class seating with a guards
compartment.
- BSOT
- Brake Open Second Trolley - a Coach with second class seating with a guard
compartment and space for a coffee/tea trolley.
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- Calling-On Signal
- A small signal, below the main signal, which allows the signal man to pass
a signal at danger.
- CK
- Corridor Composite - a Coach with First and Second class seating with a
corridor to adjoining coaches.
- CL
- Lavatory Composite - a Coach with First and Second class seating with a
Lavatory.
- Crossing Lookouts
- The person who supervises a Level Crossing, indicating to the driver that
the crossing is clear, and stopping the public from crossing when the train is
approaching.
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- Disposing
- When the engine has completed it days work, it is returned to the Shed,
the fire-box is then cleared out. The Smoke Box is also cleaned out. The water
tanks are filled, and the coal bunkers are filled. All of this hard work is
covered by the phrase "Disposing the Engine".
- DMBS
- Driving Motor Brake Second
- DMS
- Driving Motor Second
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- Firebox
- The place where the combustion of coal (or oil) takes place that produces
the hot gases that then pass through the boiler tubes to heat the water to
produce the steam used to drive the locomotive.
- Fish-plates
- The rail is installed on to the track in short lengths (21 feet on our
line). Steel or wrought iron plates placed in pairs at rail joints to bring
the rail heads together, strengthen the joint and forming a contiguous running
surface.
- The term is believed to be a nautical in origin. When a sailing ship broke
a spar, a temporary repair could be made by putting the broken ends together,
placing two shaped pieces of wood on each side of the break (like splints) and
securing them to the broken spar, usually by wrapping strong thin rope round
the splints. For some reason this was not known as splitting the break, but
fishing it.
- When William Bridges Adams (1797 - 1872) patented his new method of
jointing rails, he referred to the jointing plates as Fishplates. The first
large railway company to use them as standard was the LNWR, which introduced
them in 1853.
- Formation
- The formation is what connects the sleepers with the ground, the tracks
foundations. As our track runs over heavy clay, we have clay, sand, a
non-perminable membrane and finally balast
- Frame
- The Frame connects the wheels to the boiler, and supports the cylinders.
Typically the frames are made from plate steel 5/8" to 3/4" thick, 12" to 18"
deep and running the length of the engine.
- Frame Stretchers
- These are pieces of plate steel that run from side to side keeping the
Frames the correct distance, and make a number of boxes down the length of the
engine, thus adding to the rigidity of the engine.
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- GUV
- General Utility Van
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- Hot Box
- This is a term used to describe an axle box that has a problem, such that
the friction heats up the casting. This can be cracked bearings, or lack of
lubrication. Generally very bad news.
- H.M.R.I.
- Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate. The government body that oversees the
safe running of main line and preserved railways.
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- Light Railway Order
- Light Railway Order.
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- NJV
- NJV
- Northampton Steam Railway Limited
- Northampton Steam Railway Limited - Registered office 6 Hazlewood Road,
Northampton.
- Northampton & Lamport Railway Preservation Society
- Northampton & Lamport Railway Preservation Society
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- Off Shed
- When enginemen talk of "Going Off Shed" they mean that they are going to
take an engine from the Shed on the main running line.
- Off, Signal
- When a signal is up at an angle, or 'clear', it is said to be off.
Signalmen talk about pulling that signal off.
- On Shed
- When enginemen talk of "Going On Shed" they mean that they are returning
their engine to the Shed.
- On, Signal
- When a signal is horzontal, or at danger, it is said to be on.
- Operating Officer
- The Operating Officer is the person 'in charge' of all train movements on
the Railway for that day.
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- Peckett
- Peckett
- Push-Pull
- Push-Pull
- PMV
- Parcels and Miscellaneous Vacuum
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- Raising Steam
- A steam locomotive is not like a car or a diesel engine. It takes a number
of hours to heat the water in the boiler to generate the required pressure of
steam. This stage of heating up is called "Raising Steam".
- RBR
- Restaurant Buffet (Refurbished) .
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- Shed
- Shed is where the locomotives are cleaned, maintained and stored until
required for running.
Also see On Shed,
Off Shed
- Smoke Box
- The Smoke Box is an extension at the front of the boiler barrel. It is air
tight (except for the chimney) so that when exhaust steam from the cylinders
goes up the chimney, it draws hot air through the boiler tubes from the
fire-box.
- Stays
- Threaded metal rods used to hold the inner and outer sections of the
firebox together or to hold the firebox to the boiler barrel
- Standard Gauge
- The Track Gauge is the distance between the rails of a track; measured
from inside edge to inside edge of the rail head. Standard Gauge is the most
widely used 4' 8½" (or 1,435mm).
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- Transport and Works Act
- Like planning permission, this provides for consultation will local folks
for he granting of permission to run a railway.
- TSO
- Tourist Open Second - a Coach with Second class seating.
- Tubes
- The 'tubes' carry the hot gases and smoke from the firebox to the
smoke box, through the
water in the boiler.
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- Under Keep Pads
- ??
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- Waybeams
- The rail is usually supported, and held in place by sleepers that cross at
right angles to the rail direction. On Bridge 13 the 10" x 12"
timbers run in the same direction as the track and are called Waybeams.
- Warming Fire
- It can take 10-15 hours to get a locomotive to working pressure from cold.
So often on the afternoon before a running day, the fireman will put a Warming
Fire in the engine and heat up the water until the pressure gauge just starts
to move. The fire is then left to die, and then he will have a shorter wait
the next morning.
- Wheel Set
- ??
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Last Amended:
14-Feb-2006
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