- A
railway brake is a type of
brake used on the cars of
railway trains to
enable deceleration,
control acceleration (downhill) or to keep them immobile...
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railway air
brake is a
railway brake power braking system with
compressed air as the
operating medium.
Modern trains rely upon a fail-safe air
brake system...
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Dynamic braking is the use of an
electric traction motor as a
generator when
slowing a
vehicle such as an
electric or diesel-electric locomotive. It is...
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Brake van and guard's van are
terms used
mainly in the UK, Ireland,
Australia and
India for a
railway vehicle equipped with a hand
brake which can be applied...
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Regenerative brake Electronic Parking Brake Emergency brake (train)
Engine braking Hand
brake Line lock
Overrun brake Parking brake Railway brake ****er...
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earliest days of
railways,
trains were
slowed or
stopped by the
application of
manually applied brakes on the
locomotive and in
brake vehicles through...
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traditional brakes. The most
common form of
regenerative brake involves an
electric motor functioning as an
electric generator. In
electric railways, the electricity...
- A disc
brake is a type of
brake that uses the
calipers to
squeeze pairs of pads
against a disc (sometimes
called a [
brake] rotor) to
create friction. There...
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Railways inherited a
variety of
brake vans from each of the Big Four: GWR, LNER,
Southern Railway and LMS due to the
nationalisation of the
railways in...
- An eddy
current brake, also
known as an
induction brake,
Faraday brake,
electric brake or
electric ****er, is a
device used to slow or stop a moving...