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  • nameplate (category Terms with Russian translations)
    nameplate on a locomotive the brass nameplate on the doctor's front door 1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway...
    2 KB (172 words) - 03:38, 19 August 2024
  • exhaust pipe (category Terms with Russian translations)
    steam locomotive, a pipe which takes away steam exhausted from a cylinder. 1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway...
    3 KB (154 words) - 04:57, 5 September 2024
  • blastpipe (category Terms with Russian translations)
    smoke through the chimney. 1944 November–December, “Modified G.W.R. ‘Hall’ Class Locomotives”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC...
    4 KB (291 words) - 22:06, 2 June 2024
  • see the light of day (category Requests for translations into Russian)
    18 years since the class first saw the light of day, it is perhaps hardly premature to anticipate a new express design from the G.W.R. within a not too...
    2 KB (140 words) - 23:54, 18 August 2024
  • besiege (category Terms with Russian translations)
    December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325: When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning...
    5 KB (260 words) - 17:40, 20 August 2024
  • preclude (category Terms with Russian translations)
    at Crewe Works, as its height precludes its use on a British locomotive. 1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II”...
    4 KB (359 words) - 17:32, 13 June 2024
  • unlikely (category Terms with Russian translations)
    mail train is still steam-worked, but a most unlikely locomotive used on May 23 was Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 45250 (5A); it returned on May 25 with a...
    4 KB (393 words) - 14:54, 30 August 2024
  • roster (category Terms with Russian translations)
    March, Trains Illustrated: C. J. Boocock, "The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works", pages 160-161: After speedy repairs, No. 35018 worked the train...
    6 KB (703 words) - 12:26, 30 August 2024
  • encomium (category Terms with Russian translations)
    Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 89: Many a new locomotive class has received encomiums in these...
    7 KB (972 words) - 11:30, 4 June 2024
  • old school (category Terms with Russian translations)
    pipework is also unusual in a British locomotive, though apparent in the most recent L.M.S.R. designs, such as the Class "4" 2-6-0s; but while lacking the...
    4 KB (395 words) - 15:06, 22 August 2024
  • cut up (category Terms with Russian translations)
    January and February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 55: The locomotive involved in the derailment of the 4.33...
    6 KB (837 words) - 06:18, 23 August 2024
  • ensconce (category Terms with Russian translations)
    (intransitive) To settle comfortably. 1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, pages 261, 263: So many...
    3 KB (395 words) - 15:58, 2 June 2024
  • liner (category Terms with Russian translations)
    “British Standard Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 444: They have a common chassis, except that the cylinders, 20 in. diameter in the Class "7", are linered...
    5 KB (561 words) - 20:49, 4 September 2024
  • dead weight (category Terms with Russian translations)
    Having dropped the coach, the trio returned with the Class 47 leading and the other two locomotives as dead weight. dead weight (figuratively) useless,...
    5 KB (669 words) - 16:43, 21 August 2024
  • tractor (category Terms with Russian translations)
    located in front of the fuselage. (UK, rail transport) A British Rail Class 37 locomotive. 1995 May 23, Andrew Cooke, “Re: British Rail: At Last The 1948 Show”...
    11 KB (829 words) - 14:47, 30 August 2024
  • order (category Terms with Russian translations)
    “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53: John Hedley was Locomotive Foreman at Beattock. He was in bed, but they roused him, and he gave orders...
    59 KB (3,310 words) - 17:42, 15 September 2024
  • loco (category Terms with Russian translations)
    contain many shepherds. locoism Clipping of locomotive. loco (plural locos) (rail transport, informal) A locomotive. 1898, Rudyard Kipling, “.007”, in The...
    14 KB (2,194 words) - 08:23, 3 September 2024
  • extinction (category Terms with Russian translations)
    4-4-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 773: Their lives were short; all were condemned by the early 1930s, presumably because, like most classes of...
    7 KB (558 words) - 08:18, 3 July 2024
  • steam (category Terms with Russian translations)
    preparing. to steam wood or cloth (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive. 2023 July 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Saved: Trust protects...
    21 KB (1,528 words) - 14:26, 30 August 2024
  • source (category Terms with Russian translations)
    would inevitably be a finite number of Class 66s it could source from elsewhere, and a limit to other locomotives it could re-power. (transitive) To find...
    15 KB (898 words) - 19:24, 10 September 2024
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