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• Coach
  ==Railway coach== ...either singly or together with other such coaches. For more information on railway coaches, see the articles on [[railroad car]]s in general or [[passenger ca
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• Dynamic brake
  ...]] are connected across either the brake grids or supply line. The rolling locomotive wheels turn the motor armatures, and if the motor fields are now excited, t In [[Railway electrification system|electrified systems]] the similar process of '''[[re
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• Brake (railway)
  [[Brakes]] are used on [[railway]] [[train]]s to bring the train to a standstill. * brakes on the [[locomotive]].
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• Regenerative brake
  ...use dynamic electrical brakes include [[forklift]]s, [[Diesel-electric]] [[locomotive]]s, and [[streetcar]]s. If designed appropriately, this heat can be used t Regenerative brakes in electric [[railway]] vehicles feed the generated electricity back into the [[electricity distr
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• Regenerative braking
  ...ectric [[railway]] vehicles feed the generated electricity back into the [[Railway electrification system|supply system]]. In [[Battery electric vehicle|batte ===Electric railway vehicle operation===
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• Vacuum brake
  ...riod of adoption in the [[United States|USA]], primarily on [[narrow gauge railway|narrow gauge railroad]]s. ...e slowed or stopped by the application of manually applied brakes on the [[locomotive]] and in brake vehicles through the train, and later by steam power brakes
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• Regenerative brakes
  ...use dynamic electrical brakes include [[forklift]]s, [[diesel-electric]] [[locomotive]]s, and [[streetcar]]s. If designed appropriately, this heat can be used t Regenerative brakes in electric [[railway]] vehicles feed the generated electricity back into the [[electricity distr
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• Air brake (rail)
  ...350px|Piping diagram from 1920 of a Westinghouse E-T Air Brake system on a locomotive.]] ...tainous regions, it became necessary to fit each car with brakes, as the [[locomotive]] was no longer capable of bringing the train to a halt in a reasonable dis
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• Napier Deltic
  ...r Deltic powered [[British Rail Class 55]] ''Alycidon'', at the [[National Railway Museum]], [[York]], [[United Kingdom|UK]]]] ...ric]] using these engines, including their [[British Rail DP1|demonstrator locomotive named ''DELTIC'']] and the production version for [[British Railways]], who
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• Nicola Romeo
  ...ed the "Mechanical Saronno", "Mechanical Tabanelli" [[Rome]] and "Southern Railway Workshops" [[Naples]] Changed name as "Stock company Ing. Nicola Romeo and The company also occupied electrification of railways and construction of [[locomotive | electric locomotives]] in the establishments [[Saronno]] and [[1926]] was
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• Opposed piston engine
  ...iangle, with the crankshafts at the corners. These were used in [[railway locomotive]]s and to power fast patrol boats. Both types are now largely obsolete, alt
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• Delta engine
  ...r Deltic powered [[British Rail Class 55]] ''Alycidon'', at the [[National Railway Museum]], [[York]], [[United Kingdom|UK]]]] ...ric]] using these engines, including their [[British Rail DP1|demonstrator locomotive named ''DELTIC'']] and the production version for [[British Railways]], who
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• Electric vehicle
  [[Image:DC Electric Locomotive.jpg|thumb|250px|right|An [[electric locomotive]], taking power through a [[Pantograph (rail)|pantograph]]]] *generated on-board using a combustion engine, as in a [[diesel-electric]] locomotive
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• Tractor
  ; [[Locomotive]] tractors ([[engine]]s) ...[[control]]s and [[device]]s that comprise the [[traction component]] of [[railway]] [[vehicle]]s
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• Electric car
  ...[[1835]]. In 1838, a Scotsman named [[Robert Davidson]] built an electric locomotive that attained a speed of four miles an hour. In [[England]] a patent was gr
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• Internal combustion engine
  ...s, [[motorcycle]]s, [[boat]]s, and in a wide variety of [[aircraft]] and [[locomotive]]s. Where very high power is required, such as [[jet aircraft]], [[helicopt ...o as "motors." (An ''[[electric locomotive|electric engine]]'' refers to [[locomotive]] operated by electricity).
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• History of the automobile
  ...ck Road Loco 01.jpg|thumb|left|A replica of Richard Trevithick's 1801 road locomotive 'Puffing Devil']] ...ntors and engineers shifted their efforts to improvements in [[railway]] [[locomotive]]s. The law was not repealed until 1896, although the need for the red flag
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• Tire
  ===Railway tires=== [[Image:Train_tire.jpg|thumb|300px|Steel tire on a [[steam locomotive]]'s driving wheel is heated with gas flames to expand and loosen it so it m
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• GoldenEye
  ...dition of some armour plating to give the impression of a Russian armoured locomotive. (In the film, Trevelyan mentions that the trains were used to haul mobile ** [[Nene Valley Railway]], [[Cambridgeshire]] - ''exterior train scene''
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