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Rail transport terms are a form of technical terminology applied to railways. Although many terms are uniform across different nations and companies, they are by no means universal, with differences often originating from parallel development of rail transport systems in different parts of the world, and in the national origins of the engineers and managers who built the inaugural rail ...
The term is used to refer to a railway wheel bearing that has over-heated due to internal friction caused by some fault in the bearing. [134] [148] [149] Hot rail (US) Any section of track over which a train movement is imminent. The closer or faster the approaching train, the "hotter" the rail. [150]
A Danish train driver on a S-train looking out of the side window to make sure all the doors are safely closed for departure. In Denmark, the state owned railway company DSB started implementing one-person operation on the commuter rail S-train system in 1975. The S-train system has been completely one-person operated since 1978. [26]
Local door operation refers to a procedure and system in place on railway rolling stock on the United Kingdom railway network. It is where a single door on a train is operated by its train crew from a crew operated switch, often on a train door control panel operated by the train's guard .
Selective door operation is implemented at certain railway stations in the United States. In the New York City Subway, the 6 + 1 ⁄ 2-car-long platforms at 145th Street (and formerly the 5-car-long loop platforms at South Ferry) are too short to accommodate full-length trains of ten 51.4-foot-long (15.7 m) cars, so only the first five cars of the train opened their doors at these stations.
Meaning in Great Britain [1] Meaning in India [2] 1: Stop: Stop train 1—1: Zone of speed restriction over, resume prescribed speed 1—2: Close doors: 2: Ready to start: Start train 2—2: Do not open doors: Passing automatic signal at 'on' 3: Set Back: Guard required by driver 3—1: Lock central door locking: 3—2—1: Testing doors: 3—3
Wessex Trains 153302. A vestibuled train is a passenger train whose cars have enclosed vestibules at their ends, in contrast to the open platforms on early cars. Typically, a vestibule has doorways on either side to allow passenger entry and exit at stations, a door into the body of the car, and, at the car end, a doorway to allow access to the next car through a flexible gangway connection.
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) was the first British railway to provide passengers with the means to move from one coach to another while the train was in motion. In 1869 the LNWR built a pair of saloons for the use of Queen Victoria ; these had six-wheel underframes (the bogie coach did not appear in Britain until 1872), and the ...