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A nickname for the Canadian Pacific Railway's 1968–1996 logo featuring a black triangle within a white half-circle, which resembles the main character of the video arcade game Pac-Man. It was CP's corporate logo for all business aspects: Railway (CP Rail), shipping , telecommunications , trucking (CP Express), and airline .
Rail transport terms are a form of technical terminology applied to railways. Although many terms are uniform across different nations and companies, they are by no means universal, with differences often originating from parallel development of rail transport systems in different parts of the world, and in the national origins of the engineers and managers who built the inaugural rail ...
A Southern Railway U class 2-6-0 steam locomotive [107] Underbridge A bridge carrying the railway and allowing a roadway to pass under the railway [23]: 408 Up A direction (usually towards London, other capital city, or the headquarters of the railway concerned) or side (on left-running railways, the left side when facing in the up direction ...
A Metro, originally shorted from 'metropolitan railway', [2] is defined by the International Association of Public Transport (L'Union Internationale des Transports Publics, or UITP) as urban guided transport systems "operated on their own right of way and segregated from general road and pedestrian traffic. They are consequently designed for ...
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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Glossary of North American railway terms; P. Passenger rail terminology; S. Steam locomotive ...
The codes consisted of four-letter "words", in two syllables, with a two-letter difference from any other code. They stood for phrases, thereby saving time and reducing the likelihood of errors in the message. However, a number of codes required additional words and/or numbers to fully explain what was being communicated.
South Australian Railways 100/250/280 class country-lines diesel railcar, which had blue and stainless-steel sides and bore the names of birds [2] Bowser (SAR) Switchstand [2] Boxcar (SAR) Enclosed bogie vehicle (e.g. M, DW class etc boxcar) [2] Brass (SAR) Railway official [2] Brill (SAR) Model 55 or Model 75 Brill railcars [3]: 3‑473