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89 relations: Act of Parliament, Adhesion railway, Adit, Bell pit, Beyer, Peacock and Company, Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Brandling of Newcastle, British Rail Class D2/11, British Rail railbuses, British Rail Research Division, Brush Electrical Machines, Cable railway, Catch Me Who Can, Coal mining, Cockburn John Charles Academy, Crankshaft, Croydon power stations, Drewry Car Co., DSB (railway company), Easement, East Somerset Railway, Eastern Region of British Railways, England, Felling, Tyne and Wear, Fenton, Murray and Jackson, Gateshead, General Utility Van, Great Northern Railway (Great Britain), Greenwood & Batley, Hallam Line, Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Heritage railway, Holbeck, Horsecar, Hudswell Clarke, Hunslet, Hunslet Engine Company, Ingrow, Iron, John Blenkinsop, John Charles Centre for Sport, John Fowler & Co., Joy valve gear, Keighley, Kitson and Company, Leeds, Leeds Mercury, LMS diesel shunter 7051, LNER Class Y1, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, ..., M621 motorway, Manchester Ship Canal, Manning Wardle, Matthew Murray, Middleton Park, Middleton, Leeds, Midland Railway, Moor Road railway station, Museum of Rail Travel, National Coal Board, National Railway Museum Shildon, NER Class H, Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust, Park Halt railway station, Peckett and Sons, Pinion, Pontefract line, Rack and pinion, Rack railway, Ribble Steam Railway, Richard Hartmann, Richard Trevithick, Safety valve, Salamanca (locomotive), Sentinel Waggon Works, South Wales Transport, Southern Railway (UK), Steam locomotive, Swansea and Mumbles Railway, Swindon and Cricklade Railway, The Railway Children, Track gauge conversion, Vacuum brake, Wagonway, West Yorkshire, Wharf, 0-4-0, 0-6-0, 2-6-2. Expand index (39 more) »
Act of Parliament
Acts of Parliament, also called primary legislation, are statutes passed by a parliament (legislature).
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Adhesion railway
An adhesion railway relies on adhesion traction to move the train.
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Adit
An adit (from Latin aditus, entrance) is an entrance to an underground mine which is horizontal or nearly horizontal, by which the mine can be entered, drained of water, ventilated, and minerals extracted at the lowest convenient level.
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Bell pit
A bell pit is a primitive method of mining coal, iron ore or other minerals where the coal or ore lies near the surface.
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Beyer, Peacock and Company
Beyer, Peacock and Company was an English railway locomotive manufacturer with a factory in Gorton, Manchester.
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Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
The Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRC&W) was a railway locomotive and carriage builder, founded in Birmingham, England and, for most of its existence, located at nearby Smethwick, with the factory divided by the boundary between the two places.
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Brandling of Newcastle
The Brandlings of Newcastle were a wealthy family of merchants and land and coal owners in Newcastle upon Tyne and Northumberland.
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British Rail Class D2/11
The British Rail Class D2/11 was a British class of locomotive designed in 1958 by Brush Traction Ltd and Beyer Peacock, which co-operated to produce five prototype diesel-electric shunting locomotives of 0-4-0 wheel arrangement.
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British Rail railbuses
British Rail produced a variety of railbuses, both as a means of acquiring new rolling stock cheaply, and to provide economical services on lightly-used lines.
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British Rail Research Division
The British Rail Research Division came into being in 1964 directly under the control of the British Railways Board, moving into purpose-built premises at the Railway Technical Centre in Derby.
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Brush Electrical Machines
Brush Electrical Machines is a manufacturer of electrical generators typically for gas turbine and steam turbine driven applications.
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Cable railway
A cable railway (also known as an incline or inclined plane) is a steeply graded railway that uses a cable, rope or chain wound about a cable winch system (similar to a ski lift mechanism) powered by a stationary engine to haul trains on adversely steep grades.
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Catch Me Who Can
Catch Me Who Can was the fourth and last steam railway locomotive created by the inventor and mining engineer Richard Trevithick.
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Coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.
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Cockburn John Charles Academy
Cockburn John Charles Academy (formerly The South Leeds Academy) is a mixed secondary school located in the Belle Isle area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Crankshaft
A crankshaft—related to crank—is a mechanical part able to perform a conversion between reciprocating motion and rotational motion.
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Croydon power stations
The Croydon power stations refers to a pair of demolished coal-fired power stations and to a gas-fired power station in the Purley Way area of Croydon, London.
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Drewry Car Co.
Drewry Car Co, strictly speaking, was a railway locomotive and railcar sales organisation for most of its life.
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DSB (railway company)
DSB, an abbreviation of Danske Statsbaner (Danish State Railways), is the largest Danish train operating company, and the largest in Scandinavia.
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Easement
An easement is a nonpossessory right to use and/or enter onto the real property of another without possessing it.
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East Somerset Railway
The East Somerset Railway is a heritage railway in Somerset, running between Cranmore and Mendip Vale.
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Eastern Region of British Railways
The Eastern Region was a region of British Railways from 1948, whose operating area could be identified from the dark blue signs and colour schemes that adorned its station and other railway buildings.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Felling, Tyne and Wear
Felling is an eastern suburb of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.
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Fenton, Murray and Jackson
Fenton, Murray and Jackson was an engineering company at the Round Foundry off Water Lane in Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Gateshead
Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England, on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne.
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General Utility Van
A General Utility Van (GUV) is a type of rail vehicle built by British Rail and its predecessors, which was primarily used for transporting mail and parcels.
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Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company established by the Great Northern Railway Act of 1846.
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Greenwood & Batley
Greenwood & Batley were a large engineering manufacturer with a wide range of products, including armaments, electrical engineering, and printing and milling machinery.
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Hallam Line
The Hallam Line is a railway connecting Leeds and Sheffield via Castleford in the West Yorkshire Metro area of northern England.
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Hawthorn Leslie and Company
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Heritage railway
A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.
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Holbeck
Holbeck is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Horsecar
A horsecar, or horse-drawn tram, is an animal-powered (usually horse) tram or streetcar.
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Hudswell Clarke
Hudswell, Clarke and Company Limited was an engineering and locomotive building company in Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Hunslet
Hunslet is an inner-city area in south Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Hunslet Engine Company
The Hunslet Engine Company was founded in 1864 in Hunslet, Leeds, England.
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Ingrow
Ingrow is a suburb of Keighley, West Yorkshire, England that lies on the River Worth.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.
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John Blenkinsop
John Blenkinsop (1783 – 22 January 1831) was an English mining engineer and an inventor of steam locomotives, who designed the first practical railway locomotive.
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John Charles Centre for Sport
The John Charles Centre for Sport is a sports facility in South Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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John Fowler & Co.
John Fowler & Co Engineers of Leathley Road, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England produced traction engines and ploughing implements and equipment, as well as railway equipment.
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Joy valve gear
Joy Valve Gear Diagram Joy valve gear is a type of steam locomotive valve gear, designed by David Joy (3 March 1825 – 1903), Locomotive and Marine engineer, and patented (no. 929) on 8 March 1879.
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Keighley
Keighley is a town and civil parish within the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England.
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Kitson and Company
Kitson and Company was a locomotive manufacturer based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Leeds
Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.
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Leeds Mercury
The Leeds Mercury was a newspaper published in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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LMS diesel shunter 7051
London Midland and Scottish Railway diesel locomotive 7051 was built by the Hunslet Engine Company to demonstrate its wares.
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LNER Class Y1
The LNER Class Y1 was a class of 0-4-0 geared steam locomotives built by Sentinel Waggon Works for the London and North Eastern Railway and introduced in 1925.
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London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS)It has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR.
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M621 motorway
The M621 is a short loop of motorway in England that takes traffic into central Leeds between the M1 and M62 motorways.
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Manchester Ship Canal
The Manchester Ship Canal is a inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea.
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Manning Wardle
Manning Wardle was a steam locomotive manufacturer based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Matthew Murray
Matthew Murray (1765 – 20 February 1826) was an English steam engine and machine tool manufacturer, who designed and built the first commercially viable steam locomotive, the twin cylinder Salamanca in 1812.
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Middleton Park
Middleton Park is a public park in Middleton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
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Middleton, Leeds
Middleton is a largely residential suburb of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England and historically a village in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
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Midland Railway
The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
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Moor Road railway station
Moor Road railway station is on the Middleton Railway in West Yorkshire, England.
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Museum of Rail Travel
The Museum of Rail Travel at Ingrow, England is operated by the Vintage Carriages Trust (VCT), a charity based just north of Ingrow (West) railway station on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in West Yorkshire.
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National Coal Board
The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom.
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National Railway Museum Shildon
Locomotion, also known as Locomotion: the National Railway Museum at Shildon or Shildon Locomotion Museum is a railway museum in Shildon, County Durham, England.
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NER Class H
The North Eastern Railway (NER) Class H, classified as Class Y7 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) is a class of 0-4-0T steam locomotives designed for shunting.
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Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust
The Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust operates a long heritage railway line at Hunsbury Hill, south-west of Northampton.
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Park Halt railway station
Park Halt railway station on the Middleton Railway in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is the terminal station of the railway.
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Peckett and Sons
Peckett and Sons was a locomotive manufacturer at the Atlas Locomotive Works on Deep Pit Road between Fishponds and St. George, Bristol, England.
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Pinion
A pinion is a round gear—usually to the smaller of two meshed gears—used in several applications, including drivetrain and rack and pinion systems.
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Pontefract line
The Pontefract line is one of the rail services in the West Yorkshire Metro area of northern England.
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Rack and pinion
A rack and pinion is a type of linear actuator that comprises a pair of gears which convert rotational motion into linear motion.
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Rack railway
A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the running rails.
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Ribble Steam Railway
The Ribble Steam Railway is a standard gauge preserved railway in Lancashire, in the United Kingdom.
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Richard Hartmann
Richard Hartmann (8 November 1809 – 16 December 1878) was a German engineering manufacturer.
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Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall, England.
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Safety valve
A safety valve is a valve that acts as a fail-safe.
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Salamanca (locomotive)
Salamanca was the first commercially successful steam locomotive, built in 1812 by Matthew Murray of Holbeck, for the edge railed Middleton Railway between Middleton and Leeds.
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Sentinel Waggon Works
Sentinel Waggon Works Ltd was a British company based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire that made steam-powered lorries, railway locomotives, and later, diesel engined lorries and locomotives.
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South Wales Transport
South Wales Transport was a bus company that operated services in South Wales centred on Swansea and West Wales.
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Southern Railway (UK)
The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping.
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Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.
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Swansea and Mumbles Railway
The Swansea and Mumbles Railway was the world's first passenger railway service, located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.
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Swindon and Cricklade Railway
The Swindon & Cricklade Railway is a heritage railway in Wiltshire, England, that operates on a short section of the old Midland and South Western Junction Railway line between Swindon and Cricklade.
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The Railway Children
The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and first published in book form in 1906.
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Track gauge conversion
Gauge conversion is the change of one railway track gauge to another.
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Vacuum brake
The vacuum brake is a braking system employed on trains and introduced in the mid-1860s.
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Wagonway
Wagonways (or Waggonways) consisted of the horses, equipment and tracks used for hauling wagons, which preceded steam-powered railways.
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West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.
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Wharf
A wharf, quay (also), staith or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbor or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
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0-4-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven.
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0-6-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels.
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2-6-2
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels, six coupled driving wheels and two trailing wheels.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleton_Railway
