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British Rail Class 755, the Glossary

The British Rail Class 755 FLIRT is a class of bi-mode multiple unit passenger train built by Stadler Rail for Greater Anglia.^[1]

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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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Automatic Warning System

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

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Bittern Line

The Bittern Line is a railway branch line in Norfolk, England, that links to.

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Breckland line

The Breckland line is a secondary railway line in the east of England that links in the west to in the east.

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British Rail Class 153

The British Rail Class 153 Super Sprinter are single-coach DMUs converted from two-coach Class 155 diesel multiple units in the early 1990s.

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British Rail Class 156

The British Rail Class 156 Super Sprinter is a diesel multiple unit passenger train.

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British Rail Class 170

The British Rail Class 170 Turbostar is a British diesel multiple unit (DMU) passenger train designed and built by Adtranz, and later by Bombardier Transportation, at Derby Litchurch Lane Works.

See British Rail Class 755 and British Rail Class 170

British Rail Class 37

The British Rail Class 37 is a diesel-electric locomotive.

See British Rail Class 755 and British Rail Class 37

The British Rail Class 745 FLIRT is a class of electric multiple unit passenger train, built by Stadler as part of the FLIRT family. British Rail Class 755 and British Rail Class 745 are 25 kV AC multiple units and Stadler Rail multiple units.

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British Rail Mark 2

The Mark 2 family of railway carriages are British Rail's second design of carriages.

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Bussnang

Bussnang is a municipality in the district of Weinfelden in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland.

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Crown Point TMD

Crown Point TMD is a train maintenance depot in Norwich, England.

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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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Deutz AG

Deutz AG is a German internal combustion engine manufacturer, based in Porz, Cologne, Germany.

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Diesel multiple unit

A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines.

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East Anglia

East Anglia is an area in the East of England.

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East Anglia franchise

The East Anglia franchise is a railway franchise for passenger trains on the Great Eastern Main Line and West Anglia Main Lines in England.

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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-diesel multiple unit

An electro-diesel multiple unit (EDMU) or bi-mode multiple unit (BMU) is a form of a multiple unit train that can be powered either by electric power picked up from the overhead lines or third rail (like an electric multiple unit – EMU) or by using an onboard diesel engine, driving an electric generator, which produces alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC) electric power (like a diesel-electric multiple unit – DEMU). British Rail Class 755 and electro-diesel multiple unit are Hybrid multiple units.

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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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Felixstowe branch line

The Felixstowe branch line is a railway branch line in Suffolk, England, that connects the Great Eastern Main Line to and its port.

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Gainsborough line

The Gainsborough line is the current marketing name of the Sudbury branch line, a railway branch line off the Great Eastern Main Line in the east of England, that links in Essex with in Suffolk.

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Great Yarmouth railway station

Great Yarmouth railway station (originally Yarmouth Vauxhall) is one of two eastern termini of the Wherry Lines in the East of England, serving the seaside town of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

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Greater Anglia

Greater Anglia (legal name Transport UK East Anglia Limited) is a British train operating company owned as a joint venture by Transport UK Group and Mitsui & Co.

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Haddiscoe Cut

The Haddiscoe Cut or New Cut is a canal in the English county of Norfolk and in The Broads National Park.

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Insulated-gate bipolar transistor

An insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is a three-terminal power semiconductor device primarily forming an electronic switch.

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Ipswich–Ely line

The Ipswich–Ely line is a railway line linking East Anglia to the English Midlands via Ely.

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Jacobs bogie

Jacobs bogies (named after Wilhelm Jakobs,, 1858–1942, a German mechanical railway engineer) are a type of rail vehicle bogie commonly found on articulated railcars and tramway vehicles.

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Level crossing

A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using an overpass or tunnel.

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Lowestoft railway station

Lowestoft railway station (formerly Lowestoft Central) serves the town of Lowestoft, Suffolk.

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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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Norfolk

Norfolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Norwich

Norwich is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England of which it is the county town.

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Norwich railway station

Norwich railway station (formerly Norwich Thorpe) is the northern terminus of the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the cathedral city of Norwich, Norfolk.

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Office of Rail and Road

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the economic and safety regulation of Britain's railways, and the economic monitoring of National Highways.

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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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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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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Rackheath

Rackheath is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, and is roughly north-east of Norwich city centre.

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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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Rail Accident Investigation Branch

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) is a British government agency that independently investigates rail accidents in the United Kingdom and the Channel Tunnel in order to find a cause, not to lay blame.

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Railway Gazette International

Railway Gazette International is a British monthly business magazine and news website covering the railway, metro, light rail and tram industries worldwide.

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Reedham railway station (Norfolk)

Reedham railway station is a stop on the Wherry Lines in the East of England, serving the village of Reedham, Norfolk.

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Rock Rail

Rock Rail is a British rolling stock company (ROSCO).

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Rolling stock company

A rolling stock company (ROSCO) or rolling stock leasing company owns and maintains railway engines and carriages which are leased to train operating companies who operate the trains.

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Sheringham railway station

Sheringham railway station is the northern terminus of the Bittern Line in Norfolk, England, serving the town of Sheringham.

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Siedlce

Siedlce (שעדליץ) is a city in eastern Poland with 77,354 inhabitants.

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Slippery rail

Slippery rail, or low railhead adhesion, is a condition of railways (railroads) where contamination of the railhead reduces the traction between the wheel and the rail.

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Stadler FLIRT

Stadler FLIRT (Fast Light Intercity and Regional Train; 1) is a passenger multiple unit trainset made by Stadler Rail of Switzerland. British Rail Class 755 and Stadler FLIRT are 25 kV AC multiple units and Stadler Rail multiple units.

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Stadler Rail

Stadler Rail is a Swiss manufacturer of railway rolling stock, with an original emphasis on regional train multiple units and trams, but moving also into underground, high speed, intercity and sleeper trains.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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The Railway Magazine

The Railway Magazine is a monthly British railway magazine, aimed at the railway enthusiast market, that has been published in London since July 1897.

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Train Protection & Warning System

The Train Protection & Warning System (TPWS) is a train protection system used throughout the British passenger main-line railway network, and in Victoria, Australia.

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Turbo-diesel

The term turbo-diesel, also written as turbodiesel and turbo diesel, refers to any diesel engine equipped with a turbocharger.

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Wherry Lines

The Wherry Lines are railway branch lines in the East of England, linking with and.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_755

Also known as BR Class 755, Class 755.

, Suffolk, Switzerland, The Railway Magazine, Train Protection & Warning System, Turbo-diesel, Wherry Lines.

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Hybrid multiple units

Stadler Rail multiple units

References