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...

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...

traditional brakes. The most common form of regenerative brake involves an electric motor functioning as an electric generator. In electric railways, the electricity...

heat in brake grid resistors, and "regenerative" if the power is returned to the supply line. Dynamic braking reduces wear on friction-based braking components...

A disc brake is a type of brake that uses the calipers to squeeze pairs of pads against a disc or a rotor to create friction. There are two basic types...

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...

Regenerative brake Electronic Parking Brake Emergency brake (train) Engine braking Hand brake Line lock Overrun brake Parking brake Railway brake Retarder...

earliest days of railways, trains were slowed or stopped by the application of manually applied brakes on the locomotive and in brake vehicles through...

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...

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Earlier in the year he had invented the railway air brake in New York state. After having manufactured equipment in Pittsburgh...