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English
Noun
brakevan (plural brakevans)
- Alternative form of brake van.
1960 February, “Motive Power Miscellany: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 122:Daily for a week in December electric locomotive No. E5009 hauled a train consisting of one of the L.M.R. dynamometer cars and ten fully loaded ballast hopper wagons, with a ballast brakevan on each end, between Stewarts Lane and the Dover line; these were described in the special notices as "wheel slip tests".