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British Rail Class 331, the Glossary

The British Rail Class 331 Civity is a class of electric multiple unit built by CAF, owned by Eversholt Rail Group, and currently operated by Northern Trains.^[1]

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Air conditioning

Air conditioning, often abbreviated as A/C (US) or air con (UK), is the process of removing heat from an enclosed space to achieve a more comfortable interior temperature (sometimes referred to as 'comfort cooling') and in some cases also strictly controlling the humidity of internal air.

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Allerton TMD

Allerton TMD is a railway depot situated in Allerton, Liverpool.

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Alstom Aventra

The Alstom Aventra (sold as the Bombardier Aventra until 2021) is a family of electric multiple unit (EMU) passenger trains produced at Derby Litchurch Lane Works in the United Kingdom, originally by Bombardier Transportation and later by Alstom, as a successor to the Bombardier Electrostar.

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Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Arriva Rail North

Arriva Rail North, branded as Northern by Arriva (legal name Arriva Rail North Limited), was a train operating company in Northern England which began operating the Northern franchise on 1 April 2016 and inherited units from the previous operator Northern Rail.

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Arriva UK Trains

Arriva UK Trains Limited is the company that oversees Arriva's train operating companies in the United Kingdom.

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Automatic Warning System

Automatic Warning System (AWS) is a railway safety system invented and predominantly used in the United Kingdom.

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Bombardier Transportation

Bombardier Transportation was a Canadian-German rolling stock and rail transport manufacturer, with headquarters in Berlin, Germany.

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Brecknell Willis

Brecknell Willis is a Wabtec company headquartered in Chard, Somerset, South West England and brand-name of electrification equipment for railways, mostly pantographs and contact shoes.

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British Rail Class 196

The British Rail Class 196 Civity is a class of diesel multiple unit built for West Midlands Trains by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF. British Rail Class 331 and British Rail Class 196 are CAF multiple units.

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British Rail Class 197

The British Rail Class 197 is a class of diesel multiple unit passenger train built by CAF, based on its Civity platform. British Rail Class 331 and British Rail Class 197 are CAF multiple units.

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British Rail Class 397

The British Rail Class 397 Civity is a class of electric multiple unit built by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF for lease to TransPennine Express by Eversholt Rail Group. British Rail Class 331 and British Rail Class 397 are 25 kV AC multiple units, British Rail electric multiple units, CAF multiple units and train-related introductions in 2019.

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CAF Civity

The CAF Civity is a family of regional passenger trains which is manufactured by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles. British Rail Class 331 and CAF Civity are British Rail electric multiple units and CAF multiple units.

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CAF Newport

CAF Newport is a rolling stock factory located at Celtic Business Park, near Llanwern steelworks in Newport.

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Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of closed-circuit television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

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Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles

Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (Grupo CAF, literally "Construction and Other Railway Services") is a Spanish publicly listed company which manufactures railway vehicles and equipment and buses through its Solaris Bus & Coach subsidiary.

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Dellner

Dellner Couplers AB is a Swedish original equipment manufacturer of train connection systems as couplers, gangway systems and dampers.

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Electric multiple unit

An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages using electricity as the motive power.

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Electro-pneumatic brake system on British railway trains

The electro-pneumatic brake system on British mainline railway trains was introduced in 1950 and remains the primary braking system for multiple units in service today, although London Transport underground trains had been fitted with EP brakes since the 1920s.

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European Train Control System

The European Train Control System (ETCS) is a train protection system designed to replace the many incompatible systems used by European railways, and railways outside of Europe.

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Eversholt Rail Group

Eversholt Rail Group is a British rolling stock company (ROSCO).

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Great Continental Railway Journeys

Great Continental Railway Journeys is a British television documentary series presented by Michael Portillo.

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Induction motor

An induction motor or asynchronous motor is an AC electric motor in which the electric current in the rotor that produces torque is obtained by electromagnetic induction from the magnetic field of the stator winding.

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Knorr-Bremse

Knorr-Bremse AG is a German manufacturer of braking systems for rail and commercial vehicles that has operated since 1905.

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Llanwern

Llanwern is a village and community in the eastern part of the City of Newport, South East Wales.

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Michael Portillo

Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo (born 26 May 1953) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative Party politician.

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Modern Railways

Modern Railways is a monthly British magazine covering the rail transport industry, which was published by Ian Allan until March 2012 and Key Publishing since then.

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Neville Hill TMD

Neville Hill is a railway train maintenance depot in Osmondthorpe, Leeds, England on the Leeds to Selby Line.

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North West England

North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.

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Northern Trains

Northern Trains, trading as Northern, is a British train operating company owned by DfT OLR Holdings for the Department for Transport (DfT), after the previous operator Arriva Rail North had its franchise terminated at the end of February 2020.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is an electrical cable that is used to transmit electrical energy to electric locomotives, electric multiple units, trolleybuses or trams.

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Pacer (British Rail)

Pacer was the operational name of the British Rail Classes 140, 141, 142, 143 and 144 diesel multiple unit railbuses built between 1980 and 1987.

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Pantograph (transport)

A pantograph (or "pan" or "panto") is an apparatus mounted on the roof of an electric train, tram or electric bus to collect power through contact with an overhead line.

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Rail (magazine)

Rail is a British magazine on the subject of current rail transport in Great Britain.

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Selective door operation

Selective door operation (SDO), also known as selective door opening, is a mechanism employed primarily on trains (although buses with multiple doors also generally have this feature) that allows the driver or conductor/guard to open the doors of a train separately.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_331

Also known as BR Class 331, Class 331.

British Rail Class 331, the Glossary

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CAF multiple units

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