Glossary Results for prefix "con"
Condensing Apparatus | When a locomotive was to spend a great deal of its time in tunnels (e.g. London Underground), the spent steam from the cylinders was not released to the atmosphere through the Blast Pipe![]() |
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Conditional train | A train run when required, but required often enough for it to be included in working timetables – and so not a special train![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Conjugated Valve Gear | A valve gear![]() |
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Connecting Rod | The rod transmitting thrust from the pistons![]() ![]() |
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Connecting Rod Pin | A general term for any pin which bears on, or passes through, a connecting rod![]() ![]() |
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Consolidation Locomotive Class | A locomotive with a 2-8-0 wheel arrangement; ‘Consolidation’ was the name given to one of the first of these, built for the Lehigh Valley Railroad (U.S.A.) in 1866. | |
Consolidation Wheel Arrangement | A generic name for the the 2-8-0 wheel arrangement. See Whyte wheel arrangement![]() |
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Continuous Breaks | Brakes that are connected to adjacent vehicles in a train to form one continuous braking system controlled from the locomotive, thus providing an adequate braking force no matter the length of the train. Continuous brakes are arranged so that if vehicles become accidentally detached from the locomotive the brakes are automatically applied. Brake application devices are also available to the guard and in passenger vehicles for emergency use, but only the driver can release the brakes. See also Air Brake![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Cooke Buffer | Locomotive buffer adopted by C.J. Bowen Cooke![]() |
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Corridor Coach | A railway coach with an inter-connecting passageway between compartments![]() ![]() |
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The Corridor | ‘The Corridor’ was the nickname for the afternoon express from Euston to Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen (at 2pm in the years up to 1914), the first train to be composed entirely of corridor stock![]() ![]() |
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Cossart valve-gear | Valve gear![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Cottered Fitting | A cotter pin is a wedge-shaped solid pin designed to lock a shaft to, for example, a crank or a pulley, by means of a flat on the shaft and a transverse hole in the crank or pulley boss. When cycle chainsets started being produced which used square tapers or splines instead of the cotters employed for most of the last century, they were and are referred to universally as cotterless chainsets. |
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Coupled Wheels | Wheels that are joined together with a coupling Rod![]() |
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Coupling | Part of the draw gear![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Couplings on passenger rated stock were slightly more sophisticated, with the central link being replaced by a screw ![]() |
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Coupling Rods | Transfers power from the main driven wheel to the other powered wheels. | |
Cove-roof coach | Coaches mostly constructed in the 1903-1906 period whose roofs were in the shape of a low semi-ellipse with large radius near the centre and a small radius towards the sides. Previous LNWR carriages had roofs shaped in a simple arc and later carriages had a higher elliptical roof![]() See examples in this part of the Carriages exhibtion (and following pages) which show examples of Arc and Cove roofs. |
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Covered Truck | A covered van for carrying luggage or goods. |