Motor Rail was a British locomotive-building company, originally based in Lewes, Sussex, they moved in 1916 to Bedford. Loco manufacture ceased in 1987...
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A motor coach (international usage) or motorcar (US usage) is a self-propelled passenger rail vehicle also capable of hauling a train. With multiple unit...
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The Rail Motor Society, based at Paterson, New South Wales, is a community owned collection of preserved self-propelled railway vehicles and equipment...
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Railcar (redirect from Rail motor)
(or "rail motors"). Self-propelled passenger vehicles also capable of hauling a train are, in technical rail usage, more usually called "rail motor coaches"...
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the 1984, Air-Rail Link shuttle, between Birmingham's airport and an adjacent train station. Because of these properties, linear motors are often used...
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The steam rail motors (SRM) were self-propelled carriages operated by the Great Western Railway in England and Wales from 1903 to 1935. They incorporated...
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restored at the Rail Workshops Museum, currently on display at the Rail Workshops Museum, North Ipswich, Queensland, Australia Surplus Motor Rail internal combustion...
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run using internal combustion, almost exclusively the products of the Motor Rail company. It was one of the first railways in Britain entirely operated...
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and Hornsby of Lincoln and three were made by Motor Rail of Bedford. The frames of a fourth Motor Rail locomotive were used to form the chassis of a brakevan...
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A motor–generator (an M–G set) is a device for converting electrical power to another form. Motor–generator sets are used to convert frequency, voltage...
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Urban rail transit in India plays an important role in intracity transportation in the major cities which are highly populated. It consists of rapid transit...
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List of British Rail electric multiple unit classes British Rail locomotive and multiple unit numbering and classification British Rail coach type codes...
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Electric multiple unit (category Electric rail transport)
pickup shoes for third rail systems and pantographs for overhead systems, and transformers. Motor cars carry the traction motors to move the train, and...
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Railway electrification (redirect from Rail electrification)
fourth rail which each provide 750 V DC, so at least electrically it is a four-rail system. Each wheel set of a powered bogie carries one traction motor. A...
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Simplex 40S diesel locomotive built by British locomotive-building company Motor Rail in the mid 1960s. The two thousand pound locomotive was purchased from...
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opened on 27 August 1960 using a Motor Rail "Simplex" locomotive and a single open bogie carriage. In 1961, a second Motor Rail locomotive was added, and the...
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Electric locomotive (redirect from Electric rail transport)
locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor. Locomotives...
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Diesel Electric railmotor (VR) (redirect from Diesel Electric Rail Motor)
Electric Rail Motor (DERM) was a type of railmotor operated by the Victorian Railways in Australia. Originally built as a petrol electric rail motor (PERM)...
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traction motors fitted to the two central motor cars giving a total output of 8,000 hp (6,000 kW). This enabled the train to set the UK rail speed record...
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The British Rail Class 142 Pacer are diesel multiple-unit passenger trains built for British Rail (BR) from 1985 to 1987. They were built with a high...
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motor is a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. Most electric motors operate through the interaction between the motor's magnetic...
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The British Rail Class 313 was a dual-voltage electric multiple unit (EMU) train built by British Rail Engineering Limited's Holgate Road carriage works...
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TDI (engine) (section Motor racing)
common rail direct injection turbodiesel engine range that have an intercooler in addition to the turbo compressor. TDI engines are used in motor vehicles...
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Leyland Motors Limited (later known as the Leyland Motor Corporation) was an English vehicle manufacturer of lorries, buses and trolleybuses. The company...
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desired, these motors can be operated in parallel, making a higher voltage available at each motor and so allowing higher speeds. Parts of a rail system might...
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built by Motor Rail, which carried numbers 15 and 22-27 in their departmental number series. These survived to be taken over by British Rail, which did...
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Motor coach can refer to Motor bus, under the Canadian English usage of the term "coach" Motorcoach, a long-distance bus, in British English Motor coach...
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4 hp) Ernest E. Baguley tractors, 580 15 kW (20 hp) Motor Rail tractors and 220 30 kW (40 hp) Motor Rail tractors. An additional two hundred 30 kW (40 hp)...
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manufacturer A trade name used by British railway locomotive manufacturers The Motor Rail & Tramcar Co Ltd The trade name of the swinging-tray record changer used...
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Current collector (redirect from Third rail shoe)
rail or overhead wire. As the vehicle moves, the contact shoe slides along the wire or rail to draw the electricity needed to run the vehicle's motor...
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