Glossary Results for prefix "k"
Keep | The lower part of an axle box![]() |
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Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway | Incorporated in 1829 to join the Bolton & Leigh Railway![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Key | Used to lock the rail to its supporting chairs![]() ![]() |
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Key Staff | A staff![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Kirtley, Matthew (1813—1873) | First Locomotive Superintendent of the Midland Railway![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Kitchen Third (Tea Cars) | In the last years before 1914 the LNWR built, or converted, corridor third-class carriages with a kitchen for providing a corridor service of teas. Only four were regularly marshalled, in trains which ran at times when provision for any other meal was unnecessary:
The first carriages were 57ft cove-roof |
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Knighton Railway | A railway projected in 1858, opened partially, for goods in 1860 and completed in 1861, originally single track but doubled in 1871. It ran from Craven Arms, on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, to Knighton, Radnorshire (although the station was just over the border in Shropshire). The Shrewsbury and Hereford was leased jointly by the LNWR and GWR in 1862 and ownership, as a joint line, was transferred in 1868; in 1868, also, the Knighton Railway, Central Wales Railway and Central Wales Extension Railway were absorbed into the LNWR. | |
“Knotty” | Colloquial name of the North Staffordshire Railway![]() |