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Because early steam locomotives were low powered, pioneering engineers used rope or cable winches powered by stationary steam engines to haul
trains up steep inclines. Similarly, the ropes would...
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It's started...
We have purchased the first bits of hardware for the the fiddle yard. Yeovil Town will eventually become a very useful club layout where we can run complete
trains to and from a...
/blog/yeovil-town/1260.htm
It has finally happened. Yeovil Town today had it's first session with computer control. We have much work to do on splitting the layout up into blocks but at the mo just operating points and ru...
/blog/yeovil-town/computer-control.htm
Also known as an "autotrain", the GWR term for a push-pull vehicle. The GWR made considerable use of such
trains on branch and secondary services, a mechanical linkage enabling the reg...
/glossary/2914.htm
A locomotive assigned to assist heavy
trains up inclines - often known on the railway as "banks" - by pushing from the rear.
/glossary/2919.htm
Facing Point Lock. A safety feature required on all facing points used by passenger
trains,which locks the point blades in position to prevent derailments.
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A single trailing point blade set into a siding or loop track to derail wagons to prevent runaways or
trains which have passed a signal at danger (see spad) from fouling a running line, by derailing t...
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the physical dimensions which will pass safely through tunnels, past other
trains etc. of a specific railway, also the light metal frame suspended from an arm which checks dimensions.
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