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Railway Express refrigerator or boxcars having no interior illumination pressed into mail service during the Christmas rush
n, v, pron. “cue” line. This doesn’t really help the definition at all, as a line could be any number of things. A pencil line? A railway line? A line of Charlie? A line dancer? As a result of this potentially dangerous confusion, a word was developed by some British word-scientists to separate this particular line from all the others. A queue is a line of people. To queue is to be one of those queuing in the queue. The word means “tail” in French, and is used in the same context. Americans do in fact use the word, but only in the “you’re third in the queue” type telephone call waiting systems.
n the London Underground railway. Londoners are clearly not as inspired as Glaswegians, who call theirs the “Clockwork Orange.” In the U.S., these sorts of rail systems are known as “subways” which, no doubt in order to cause confusion, is what the Brits call the walkways which go underneath roads, where tramps live and drunk people urinate.
Conductor; so named from first initial in Order of Railway Conductors. Sometimes called big ox and less complimentary terms
1 n a person whose hobby is to, well, spot trains. They stand in railway stations or on bridges and note down the types and serial numbers of any trains that go past. I was fortunate enough to be in Reading Station one afternoon while a train-spotting convention was in town; the place was a sea of bright yellow reflective jackets and they had video cameras set up on each platform. Perhaps itÂ’s a social thing. Anyway, the term was made a household one by Irvine WelshÂ’s excellent book, Trainspotting, which is not about spotting trains. 2 n nerd. Stemming directly from the prior definition, this word has come to mean anyone who is a little too engrossed in one particular none-too-interesting subject, and probably a virgin.
n subway (specifically underground railway): ThereÂ’s an underground station two minutes from my house.
Baggage car or (in rush periods) Railway Express car containing a mixed shipment of parcels and mail sacks consigned to a certain terminal for sorting and rerouting to various destinations via other trains
Railway thinking is American slang for the belief that the events of history (on both a grand and on a personal scale) repeat themselves.
Mail in sacks and pouches consigned to R.P.O. (Railway Post Office) cars to be "worked" or sorted in transit
Electricity. Juice fan is one who makes a hobby out of electric railways (juice lines)
 Railway Train (Cockney Rhyming slang); to meet a train or to travel via railway.
n railroad tie. The very large blocks of wood which go between the rails and the ground on a section of railway line.
Demerits. This system is traced back to George R. Brown, general superintendent of the Fall Brook Railway (now part of the New York Central) in 1885. He thought the then current practice of suspending men for breaking rules was unfair to their families and substituted a system of demerit marks. Too many demerits in a given period resulted in dismissal. The Brown system, with many variations, has since been widely adopted by the railroad industry. A superintendent's private car is called brownie box or brownie wagon
Railway Post Office unit, usually at or near the railroad station, where mail is removed from sacks, sorted, and forwarded to its ultimate destination
Railway Post Office clerk
Originally from Scots but also in Geordie. Possibly derived from 'loanin' which might have had to do with an old system for loaning plots of land, or perhaps "a sheltered place where cows were gathered for milking". I think we need some further input on this before we can be definitive.. To the contributor it meant a shortcut that was usually grassy and covered in dog poo, often an old railway line or grassy lane that you'd maybe use as a shortcut to get to school. (ed: on the other hand... Burno tells us that in Georgie, 'Lonnen' just means a lane. Seems there's a road called 'Lonnen' in a town local to him... but he didn't say which one)
n railroad. CanÂ’t think of anything witty.
Four to six hand trucks placed in formation beside the door of a storage car to facilitate the separation of the mail and parcels being unloaded. Each truck is loaded with matter to be transferred to other trains or to the R.P.O. (Railway Post Office) terminal office
Mikado-type engine (2-8-2), so named because first of this type were built for Imperial Railways of Japan. (Because of the war with Japan, some railroads rechristened this type MacArthur)
The four operating Brotherhoods: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Order of Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
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To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.
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A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like.
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The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.
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One of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece.
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An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.
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One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.
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A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train.
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A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.
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To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
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A landing place; an elevated staging upon a wharf for discharging coal, etc., as from railway cars, into vessels.
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To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business.
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A freight car on a railway.
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A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities.
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A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2.
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A railway laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.
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That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc.
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One who tends a switch on a railway.
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A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
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A small apartment for lodging or sleeping in the cabin, or on the deck, of a vessel; also, a somewhat similar apartment in a railway sleeping car.
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An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.
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