Glossary Results for prefix "ba"
‘B’ Class 0-8-0 Locomotive class | Webb’s![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Baby Scot | Colloquial name for the ‘Patriot’ class 3-cylinder 4-6-0 locomotives designed by Sir Henry Fowler for the LMS, the first few of which included components from scrapped LNWR ‘Claughton’![]() |
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Back Light | The lamps of semaphore signals![]() ![]() |
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Badge Porter | Working under supervision of the railway staff but paid by the passenger, according to an agreed scale, mainly carrying luggage outside the station area. | |
Bag (1) | The large hose through which water from a water column![]() |
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Bag (2) | A flexible hose used for connecting vacuum brake ![]() |
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Baker Valve Gear | A steam locomotive valve gear![]() ![]() |
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Baker, William (1817—1878) | In 1852 was appointed by the LNWR as engineer of the Southern Division to succeed R.B. Dockray. On the death of Robert Stephenson![]() |
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Ballast | Railway ballast provides both the foundation and drainage for railway track. Many steam-era railways used ash, gravel or even shingle as ballast, but on important lines the LNWR used (expensive) crushed North Wales granite and made an advertising feature of its track as “dustless permanent way”![]() |
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Ballast wagon | A wagon, normally a drop-side wagon![]() ![]() |
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Banana Van | A heated or insulated van for transporting bananas. | |
Bank | Any severe or long (or both severe and long) gradient was commonly known as a bank, which is why an assisting engine was described as a “banking” engine![]() |
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Banking Engine | An engine used to assist a train up a gradient (or bank) if the train was too heavy for the train engine alone. A banking engine would often not be attached to the train, but simply push from the rear, allowing the train to draw away at the top of the gradient. On the LNWR any engine assisting a train, whether attached in front or pushing from the rear, was described as “banking”. | |
Bar Frame | Locomotive frames![]() ![]() |
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Barlow, William Henry (1812—1902) | Chief Civil Engineer![]() ![]() |
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Baxter, Bertram (?—1966) | ‘British Locomotive Catalogue 1825-1923’ Compiled by Bertram Baxter, edited by David Baxter. (Moorland Publishing Company 1979). Vol.1 is the index, Vol.2a and Vol.2b list every locomotive ever built by or for the LNWR and its constituent companies. | |
BCK Coach | British Railways’ nomenclature for Brake Composite Korridor (sic) coach, that is with accommodation for more than one class of passenger and also a guard’s brake compartment. (K used to differentiate Corridor from Composite). Brake Composites (or Brake Tri-Composites before about 1910) were often used as through carriages. For example in the years before 1914 the “Corridor” ![]() |