<span class="searchmatch">train</span> <span class="searchmatch">pipe</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">train</span> pipes) (rail transport) A brake <span class="searchmatch">pipe</span> on a rail vehicle through which compressed air or vacuum is passed to operate the brakes...
<span class="searchmatch">train</span> pipes plural of <span class="searchmatch">train</span> <span class="searchmatch">pipe</span>...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">Pipe</span>, <span class="searchmatch">PIPE</span>, <span class="searchmatch">pipé</span>, <span class="searchmatch">pīpe</span>, <span class="searchmatch">pīpē</span>, and <span class="searchmatch">pipę</span> WOTD – 8 February 2019 From Middle English <span class="searchmatch">pīpe</span>, pype (“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container;...
<span class="searchmatch">train</span> operating company <span class="searchmatch">train</span> order <span class="searchmatch">train</span> <span class="searchmatch">pipe</span>, trainpipe trainset <span class="searchmatch">train</span> set <span class="searchmatch">train</span> shed, trainshed <span class="searchmatch">train</span> sickness <span class="searchmatch">train</span> spacing <span class="searchmatch">train</span> spotter <span class="searchmatch">train</span> spotting...
<span class="searchmatch">train</span> <span class="searchmatch">pipe</span> pressure is reduced, the triple valve spills air out of the auxiliary reservoir until its pressure becomes equal to that of the <span class="searchmatch">train</span> <span class="searchmatch">pipe</span>;...
Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in <span class="searchmatch">Trains</span> Illustrated, page 767: All other <span class="searchmatch">piped</span> services for the locomotives are provided in the shed;...
brake <span class="searchmatch">pipe</span> From brake + <span class="searchmatch">pipe</span>. brakepipe (plural brakepipes) (rail transport, mechanical engineering) A continuous <span class="searchmatch">pipe</span> or hose filled with high-pressure...
trainpipe (plural trainpipes) Alternative form of <span class="searchmatch">train</span> <span class="searchmatch">pipe</span>. 1941 January, David L. Smith, “Still More G. & S.W. Nights' Entertainment”, in Railway Magazine...
vehicle to stop in event of an emergency. 2020 June 17, Andrew Roden, “Brake <span class="searchmatch">pipe</span> issue prompted Caledonian Sleeper runaway”, in Rail, page 12: At 0725, the...
steam <span class="searchmatch">pipe</span> (plural steam pipes) Alternative form of steampipe. 1959 December, “New TPOs for the Western Region”, in <span class="searchmatch">Trains</span> Illustrated, page 581: Each...