Glossary Results for prefix "en"
End Kitchen Carriage | A dining car![]() ![]() |
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End Stanchions | Vertical timbers bolted through the face of a wagon buffer beam and extending to the top of its end planks to keep all planks straight and in place. | |
End-loading dock | A short siding abutting a raised platform (either at a passenger station or in a goods yard) where vehicles such as CCTs![]() |
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End-door wagon | A wagon intended for coal or mineral traffic![]() |
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Engine House | Not, as might be thought, an engine shed![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The original reason for the use of stationary engines between Edge Hill and Crown Street (and later Lime Street) was that the Act of Parliament which authorised the building of the railway into Liverpool forbade the use of locomotives in the centre of the city (an early attempt at smoke abatement). This may have encouraged the use of gradients then considered too severe for adhesion traction ![]() |
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Engine Shed | Anything from a small building, capable of stabling one locomotive overnight, to a major depot consisting of several buildings (such as Crewe North) for preparing, servicing, and in some cases repairing locomotives. The LNWR shed buildings designed by F.W.Webb were of distinctive design; the roof ridges, set across the tracks, sloped steeply on one side and more gently on the other, with lights (windows) only in the steep faces. Such “north-light” sheds (whatever direction they faced) were found throughout the system. Older shed buildings designed by John Ramsbottom had hipped roofs with prominent louvred ventilators on top. On the LNWR “engine sheds" in the sense of depots as opposed to buildings were more usually called “steam sheds”. |
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Engineers’ Saloon | A railway carriage reserved for the use of a senior (usually District-) Engineer and used in the course of his work. Each District Engineer was allocated his own saloon and they were self-contained with a lavatory, conference area and balcony, from which he could inspect structures as they passed. | |
Engineers’ Train | A train used to convey materials or goods for one of the railway’s own Engineering Departments, rather than for the public (passenger or goods). Examples include ballast, rail and other track parts, also signalling equipment of materials for use by the railway's own Civil Engineers. | |
Erecting (Work-)Shop | A section of the works in which all the components of a locomotivewere brought together for erection or assembly into the finished engine. Subsidiary workshops (e.g. the brass foundry, the wheel shop) dealt with the manufacture/repair of the various components. | |
Euston, London | The London terminus, headquarters and principal station of the London & Birmingham Railway![]() |
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Exchange Sidings | Where the lines of two companies shared a station, their goods traffic was often kept separate, each company having its own goods yard. If wagons and vans arriving under the auspices of one company needed to go forward by the other, the transfer was made in exchange sidings. | |
Exchange Station, Liverpool | The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Exchange Station, Manchester | LNWR trains between Yorkshire and the Liverpool and Manchester![]() ![]() |
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Expansion Link | A link on the Stephenson![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Experiment Locomotive Class (1) | A series of 30 three cylinder compounds![]() ![]() |
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Experiment 4-6-0 Locomotive Class (2) | Built from 1905, these were a class of 105 two cylinder simple![]() ![]() |
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Express Passenger | A train conveying passengers over long distances with few stops, usually at speed. Strangely, only two districts — the Lancaster and Carlisle and the Central Wales — used the term “Express Passenger” as a train description in the working timetables![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the term “Express Passenger” was used in relation to some trains which conveyed no passengers — the 03.00 newspaper train Euston-Birmingham/ Liverpool/Carlisle, the 21.20 corridor parcels train from Euston and the corresponding up train, 22.50 from Liverpool, were all “signalled as express passenger trains”. |
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Extra Large Bloomer 2-2-2 Locomotive Class | In 1861 McConnell![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |