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Also Centering spring cylinder. A cylindrical cast-iron holder in which an adjusting string is placed. Adjusting spring seat A casting, or a part of the bolster of a two-wheel trailing truck, forming a bearing for the end of the adjusting spring. Admission The opening of steam port to admit steam to one end of a cylinder. If the valve has no lead, admission takes place at the moment the piston ...
The waiting shed has significance for its rare example of a small 1880s timber waiting shed on platforms 2/3, the only remaining example in NSW. This is a rare example of a small early timber building to survive on a suburban line and is of high significance as it represents the form of many similar stations that have been removed or replaced ...
Wooden suburban passenger carriages in Brisbane. F. Fender (SAR) Wagon between loco and wagons for separation of dangerous goods or because of incompatible couplers [2] Flat (SAR) Flatcar – e.g. four-wheeled (F class) or bogie (FB, FBT class) [2] Foamer. Slang for a rather obsessive rail or tramway enthusiast.
Fielder railway station is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway in Australia. It opened as a Stopping Place on Monday 10 September 1928, [1] as part of the Gembrook railway line. It was originally an unnamed platform, with time tables noting a station at 38 miles (61 km). In 1929, local Harry Watson constructed a Mallee shed and unofficially ...
Hangar. A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft. Hangars are built of metal, wood, or concrete. The word hangar comes from Middle French hanghart ("enclosure near a house"), of Germanic origin, from Frankish * haimgard ("home-enclosure", "fence around a group of houses"), from * haim ("home, village, hamlet ...
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Train shed. A train shed is a building adjacent to a station building where the tracks and platforms of a railway station are covered by a roof. It is also known as an overall roof. Its primary purpose is to store and protect from the elements train cars not in use, The first train shed was built in 1830 at Liverpool 's Crown Street Station. [1]
Sydenham Railway Station is of historical significance as a major junction station developed from 1884 to the present, with two 1884 platform buildings, 1925 platform building and waiting shed, 1962 parcels office, and 1920s Gleeson Avenue overbridge demonstrating its development over time, including the adaptation of the 1884 wayside platform ...