 | 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... 30 KB (4,325 words) - 14:27, 10 May 2024 |
 | 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... 36 KB (4,418 words) - 19:22, 5 February 2024 |
 | An air brake or, more formally, a compressed-air-brake system, is a type of friction brake for vehicles in which compressed air pressing on a piston is... 18 KB (2,153 words) - 16:49, 5 April 2024 |
 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Earlier in the year he had invented the railway air brake in New York state. After having manufactured equipment in Pittsburgh... 17 KB (1,868 words) - 07:42, 29 February 2024 |
Railway air brake (used on both locomotives, and on towed or pushed cars) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Air brake... 650 bytes (104 words) - 02:44, 23 June 2019 |
 | supplanted by air brakes. In the earliest days of railways, trains were slowed or stopped by the application of manually applied brakes on the locomotive... 32 KB (4,787 words) - 15:56, 28 April 2024 |
 | A hydraulic brake is an arrangement of braking mechanism which uses brake fluid, typically containing glycol ethers or diethylene glycol, to transfer... 23 KB (3,289 words) - 12:01, 11 March 2024 |
 | 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... 22 KB (3,217 words) - 01:13, 6 March 2024 |
 | brake portion, and automatically regulating the air brake portion, because the main purpose of dynamic braking is to reduce the amount of air braking... 12 KB (1,386 words) - 03:00, 10 February 2024 |
 | Chippenham railway station on the Great Western Railway. The railway air brake was patented in the United States by George Westinghouse in 1869 (straight air brake)... 10 KB (945 words) - 09:45, 10 August 2023 |
 | system Brake (railway) Electromagnetic brake Regenerative (design) Regenerative shock absorber Hybrid Synergy Drive Ram air turbine Dynamic braking Electric... 52 KB (5,952 words) - 15:11, 6 May 2024 |
 | hoses supplying pressurized air from a tractor unit to air brakes on a semi-trailer, or from a locomotive to railway air brakes on railroad cars. Gladhand... 3 KB (346 words) - 23:09, 4 May 2022 |
 | undercarriage as an air brake. Friction brakes on automobiles store braking heat in the drum brake or disc brake while braking then conduct it to the air gradually... 21 KB (2,690 words) - 10:45, 15 March 2024 |
 | George Westinghouse (section Air brakes) American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first... 30 KB (3,366 words) - 14:00, 31 March 2024 |
pneumatic brakes are a type of railway braking systems. Traditional train braking systems use pneumatic valves to control and generate brake applications... 13 KB (1,515 words) - 11:37, 2 March 2024 |
Brake fade (or vehicle braking system fade) is the reduction in stopping power that can occur after repeated or sustained application of the brakes of... 18 KB (2,649 words) - 16:55, 7 March 2024 |
Runaway train (category Railway accidents and incidents) A deadman's control, if the brakes are working, can prevent unattended rolling stock from moving. A railway air brake can fail if valves on the pipe... 21 KB (641 words) - 17:39, 25 April 2024 |
types of braking methods employed on roller coasters, including friction brakes, skid brakes, and magnetic brakes. The most common is a fin brake, an alternative... 9 KB (1,259 words) - 21:17, 13 May 2024 |
 | 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... 68 KB (8,997 words) - 21:01, 9 May 2024 |
large vehicles and a railway air brake system for railway carriages / locomotives. Due to the versatility of a flexible compressed air supply hoses are also... 7 KB (813 words) - 23:47, 22 October 2023 |
The electro-pneumatic brake system on British mainline railway trains was introduced in 1950 and remains the primary braking system for multiple units... 11 KB (1,583 words) - 22:06, 21 September 2023 |
horse-drawn carriage used to train horses for draft work Railway brake Air brake (disambiguation) Air brake (aeronautics), in aeronautics, a type of flight control... 2 KB (262 words) - 18:45, 1 May 2018 |
 | 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... 32 KB (3,681 words) - 15:47, 4 March 2024 |
 | been used in air brake systems ever since the technology was invented by George Westinghouse in 1868. This includes: Railway air brake hoses used between... 6 KB (809 words) - 22:03, 22 January 2024 |
The New York Air Brake Corporation, located in Watertown, New York, is a manufacturer of air brake and train control systems for the railroad industry... 9 KB (1,218 words) - 04:48, 20 February 2024 |
 | Retarder (mechanical engineering) (redirect from Brake retarder) of the friction brake, as it is subsequently used less frequently, particularly at higher speeds. Additionally, air actuated brakes serve a dual role... 12 KB (1,614 words) - 01:30, 5 March 2024 |
 | Wabtec (redirect from Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation) Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, commonly known as Wabtec, is an American company formed by the merger of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company... 22 KB (1,940 words) - 06:04, 17 March 2024 |
 | LHB coach (category Railway coaches of India) 2000 on the 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge network of Indian railways. Initially, 24 air conditioned coaches were imported from Germany for use in the... 28 KB (2,361 words) - 19:36, 21 April 2024 |
 | expression emergency brake has several meanings: The maximum brake force available to the engine driver from the conventional braking system, usually operated... 27 KB (3,871 words) - 15:26, 7 March 2024 |
brake (German: Gegendruckbremse), also named the Riggenbach counter-pressure brake after its inventor, Niklaus Riggenbach, is a dynamic railway brake... 3 KB (398 words) - 07:38, 5 June 2021 |