standard screw coupling, shown attached and tightened The link-and-pin coupling was the original style of coupling used on North American railways. After most...
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A coupling is a device used to connect two shafts together at their ends for the purpose of transmitting power. The primary purpose of couplings is to...
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Buffers and chain coupler (redirect from Screw coupling)
de facto International Union of Railways (UIC) standard railway coupling used in the EU and UK, and on some railways in other parts of the world, such...
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Janney coupler (redirect from Janney coupling)
Janney couplers are a semi-automatic form of railway coupling that allow rail cars and locomotives to be securely linked together without rail workers...
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Digital automatic coupling (DAC) is a type of railway coupling developed in the 2020's to replace the English buffers and chain couplings, initially in Europe...
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together Coupling (probability), a proof technique in probability theory Railway coupling, a mechanism for connecting railway rolling stock Azo coupling, often...
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Scharfenbergkupplung, abbreviated Schaku) is a commonly used type of fully automatic railway coupling. Designed in 1903 by Karl Scharfenberg in Königsberg, Germany (today...
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The railcar couplers or couplings listed, described, and depicted below are used worldwide on legacy and modern railways. Compatible and similar designs...
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World Railways, lists the coupler(s) used on any railway system Length over headstocks Multi-function couplers Railway coupling Railway coupling by country...
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railway couplings used primarily in Russia and states influenced by the former Soviet Union, such as Finland, Poland, and Mongolia. Russian railways originally...
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inventor of the curveball. In 1873, Cummings invented a railway coupling device, improving on the coupling device then in use, which was dangerous. He patented...
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From time to time, a railway decides that it needs to upgrade its coupling system from one that is proving unsatisfactory, to another that meets future...
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and some freight cars of the Indian Railways are fitted with a 'transition coupler' that incorporates a screw coupling within a knuckle coupler: the knuckle...
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A Norwegian coupling or coupler (also known colloquially as a chopper coupling or claw hammer coupling), is a manually operated coupling at each end of...
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A fluid coupling or hydraulic coupling is a hydrodynamic or 'hydrokinetic' device used to transmit rotating mechanical power. It has been used in automobile...
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Rail transport by country (redirect from Railways in Africa)
network size List of countries by rail usage Railway coupling by country List of locomotive builders List of railway companies List of rolling stock manufacturers...
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Rolling stock (redirect from Railway vehicle)
The term rolling stock in the rail transport industry refers to railway vehicles, including both powered and unpowered vehicles: for example, locomotives...
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Buffer (rail transport) (redirect from Centre buffer couplings)
touch when the coupling chain was fully slack, such as when being pushed or going down hill. The buffers in the very earliest days of railways were rigid...
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Scharfenberg Scharfenberger chocolate Scharfenberg coupler, a type of railway coupling Doris Scharfenberg Jean Scharfenberg (1922-1998), American professor...
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the existing chain couplings, which would have made this conversion prohibitively expensive for some of the European state railways to carry out. The C-AKv...
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Informationstechnik) Bureau of Special Investigation, Myanmar BSI coupling, a railway coupling or coupler Back-illuminated sensor, also known as backside illumination...
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The Caledonian Railway 812 and 652 Classes were 0-6-0 steam tender locomotives designed by John F. McIntosh for the Caledonian Railway and introduced...
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Track gauge (redirect from Railway gauge)
Loading gauge Minimum railway curve radius Overhead line Rail profile Rail terminology Rail transport modelling scales Railway coupling Structure gauge Third...
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Siding (rail) (redirect from Railway siding)
wharves, warehouses, some of them are essentially links to industrial railways. Such sidings can sometimes be found at stations for public use;[clarification...
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(Mozambique Railway) Malawi Railways TransNamib Swaziland Railway TAZARA (Tanzania/Zambia Railway Authority) Zambia Railways National Railways of Zimbabwe...
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AAR Corporation, an American aviation engineering company AAR coupling, railway coupling specification of the Association of American Railroads AAR wheel...
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Romanian buses and trolleybuses Digital automatic coupling, a railway coupling Dahinsara Junction railway station, Gujarat, India, station code DAC DAC Air...
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knuckles), weapons used in hand-to-hand combat Knuckle coupler, a railway coupling, a mechanism for connecting rolling stock in a train Knuckle joint...
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Rail transport (redirect from Railway)
century. The first passenger railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opened in 1825. The quick spread of railways throughout Europe and North America...
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Look up drawbar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A drawbar is a solid coupling between a hauling vehicle and its hauled load. Drawbars are in common use...
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