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British Railway Brake Van
British Railways inherited a variety of brake vans from each of the Big Four (British railway companies), Big Four: Great Western Railway, GWR, London and North Eastern Railway, LNER, Southern Railway (UK), Southern Railway and London, Midland and Scottish Railway, LMS due to the History of rail transport in Great Britain 1948–1994, nationalisation of the railways in 1948. A brake van, on a train, is a wagon at the rear of a goods train where a guard would sit with a Railroad hand brake, hand brake. The job of this wagon was to provide extra braking force for a train and as an emergency hand brake, should an unfitted train become uncoupled from the locomotive and become a runaway train. All brake vans served the same purpose: to supplement Brake force, brake-force to a train. Brake vans are operated by the Guard, a member of staff on the train, who is in charge of making sure that the lights are in the correct place. This is because a UK railway signalling, signalman would n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brake Van (interior) (9131593638)
Brake van and guard's van are terms used mainly in the UK, Ireland, Australia and India for a Rolling stock, railway vehicle equipped with a hand brake which can be applied by the Conductor (transportation), guard. The equivalent North American term is caboose, but a British brake van and a caboose are very different in appearance, because the former usually has only four wheels, while the latter usually has bogies. German railways employed brakeman's cabins combine car, combined into other cars. Many British freight trains formerly had no continuous brake so the only available brakes were those on the locomotive and the brake van. Because of this shortage of brake power, the speed was restricted to . The brake van was marshalled at the rear of the train so both portions of the train could be brought to a stand in the event of a coupling breaking. When freight trains were fitted with continuous braking, brake vans lost their importance, and were discontinued by many railways. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
