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Australian Railway Historical Society
The Australian Railway Historical Society (ARHS) aims to foster an interest in the railways, and record and preserve many facets of railway operations.
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Axle
An axle is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear.
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Bogie
A bogie (in some senses called a truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework carrying wheelsets, attached to a vehicle, thus serving as a modular subassembly of wheels and axles.
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Bogie exchange
Bogie exchange is a system for operating railway wagons on two or more gauges to overcome difference in the track gauge.
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Buffer (rail transport)
A buffer is a part of the buffers-and-chain coupling system used on the railway systems of many countries, among them most of those in Europe, for attaching railway vehicles to one another.
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Buffers and chain coupler
Buffers and chain coupler (also called buffers and screw, screw coupler, or English coupler; in EU standards, it's two devices: buffers and draw gear and screw coupling) is the standard train coupling system used in Europe, outside the former Soviet Union.
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Emergency brake (train)
On trains, the expression emergency brake has several meanings.
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Epping, Victoria
Epping is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km north of Melbourne's Central Business District.
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Goods station
A goods station (also known as a goods yard or goods depot) or freight station is, in the widest sense, a railway station where, either exclusively or predominantly, goods (or freight), such as merchandise, parcels, and manufactured items, are loaded onto or unloaded off of ships or road vehicles and/or where goods wagons are transferred to local sidings.
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Head-end power
In rail transport, head-end power (HEP) or electric train supply (ETS) is the electrical power distribution system on a passenger train.
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Janney coupler
The Janney Coupler is a semi-automatic railway coupler.
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Kitbashing
Kitbashing or model bashing is a practice whereby a new scale model is created by taking pieces out of commercial kits.
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Loading gauge
A loading gauge defines the maximum height and width for railway vehicles and their loads to ensure safe passage through bridges, tunnels and other structures.
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Narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.
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National Rail Corporation
The National Rail Corporation was an Australian rail operator established by the Federal, New South Wales and Victoria governments in February 1992.
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Newport Workshops
The Newport Railway Workshops is a facility in the Melbourne suburb of Newport, Australia, that builds, maintains and refurbishes railway rollingstock.
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Pallet
A pallet, sometimes inaccurately called a skid (a skid has no bottom deck boards), is a flat transport structure that supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, pallet jack, front loader, work saver, or other jacking device, or a crane.
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Pine
A pine is any conifer in the genus Pinus,, of the family Pinaceae.
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Port Augusta
Port Augusta is a small city in South Australia.
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Queensland Rail
Queensland Rail, also known as QR, is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia.
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Ratchet (device)
A ratchet is a mechanical device that allows continuous linear or rotary motion in only one direction while preventing motion in the opposite direction.
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Refrigerator car
A refrigerator car (or "reefer") is a refrigerated boxcar (U.S.), a piece of railroad rolling stock designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures.
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Spotswood, Victoria
Spotswood is an inner-western suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km south-west of Melbourne's central business district.
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Square
In geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90-degree angles, or (100-gradian angles or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle in which two adjacent sides have equal length. A square with vertices ABCD would be denoted.
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Standard-gauge railway
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.
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Sunshine, Victoria
Sunshine is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, lying 11 to 13 km west of the CBD, located within the City of Brimbank local government area.
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Swing Door (train)
Swing Door trains, commonly known as "Dogboxes" or "Doggies", were wooden-bodied electric multiple unit (EMU) trains that operated on the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Trunk (botany)
In botany, the trunk (or bole) is the stem and main wooden axis of a tree, which is an important feature in tree identification, and which often differs markedly from the bottom of the trunk to the top, depending on the species.
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UGL Rail
UGL Rail is an Australian rail company specialising in building, maintaining and refurbishing diesel locomotives, diesel & electric multiple units and freight wagons.
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Underframe
An underframe is a framework of wood or metal carrying the main body structure of a railway vehicle, such as a locomotive, carriage or wagon.
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Victorian Railways
The Victorian Railways operated in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1983.
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Victorian Railways power vans
The Victorian Railways (VR) of Australia and successors have utilised a number of different types of railway carriages and wagons for the supply of head end power to passenger trains on the Victorian railway network.
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Victorian Railways S type carriage
The S type carriages are a corridor-type passenger carriage used on the railways of Victoria, Australia.
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Wheelbase
In both road and rail vehicles, the wheelbase is the distance between the centers of the front and rear wheels.
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Wheelset (rail transport)
A wheelset is the wheel - axle assembly of a railroad car.
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Zanthus, Western Australia
Zanthus is a remote outpost on the Trans-Australian rail line approximately east of the regional city of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.
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5 ft 3 in gauge railways
Railways with track gauge of are broad gauge railways, currently in use in Australia, Brazil, Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Railways_louvre_vans
