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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traditional brakes. The most common form of regenerative brake involves an electric motor functioning as an electric generator. In electric railways, the electricity...
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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...
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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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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...
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Regenerative brake Electronic Parking Brake Emergency brake (train) Engine braking Hand brake Line lock Overrun brake Parking brake Railway brake Retarder...
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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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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...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Earlier in the year he had invented the railway air brake in New York state. After having manufactured equipment in Pittsburgh...
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