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Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, the Glossary

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Andrew Barclay Sons & Co.

Andrew Barclay Sons & Co., currently operating as Brodie Engineering, is a railway engineering company, specialising in the heavy maintenance, refurbishment and overhauls for both passenger and freight rolling stock.

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Annett's key

In British, Australian, French, and Swiss railway signalling, an Annett's key is a form of trapped-key interlocking that locks levers or other items of signalling apparatus, thereby serving as a portable form of interlocking.

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BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T

The British Railways Standard Class 4 tank is a class of steam locomotive, one of the BR standard classes built during the 1950s.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997.

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British Rail Class 142

The British Rail Class 142 Pacer are diesel multiple-unit passenger trains built for British Rail (BR) from 1985 to 1987.

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British Rail Derby Lightweight

The British Rail Derby Lightweight diesel multiple units, were the first such trains to be built en-masse for British Railways.

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Casualty (TV series)

Casualty (stylised as CASUAL+Y since 1997) is a British medical drama series that is broadcast on BBC One.

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Central Trains

Central Trains was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by National Express that operated a variety of local and inter-regional trains from 2 March 1997 until 11 November 2007.

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Confluence

In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more watercourses join to form a single channel.

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Cowers Lane

Cowers Lane is a settlement in Derbyshire bordering Shottle, within the civil parish of Shottle and Postern, near Belper, Derbyshire England along the A517 road.

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Cromford

Cromford is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, in the valley of the River Derwent between Wirksworth and Matlock.

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Cromford and High Peak Railway

The Cromford and High Peak Railway (C&HPR) was a standard-gauge line between the Cromford Canal wharf at High Peak Junction and the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Derwent Valley line

The Derwent Valley line is a railway line from Derby to Matlock in Derbyshire.

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Duffield railway station

Duffield railway station serves the village of Duffield in Derbyshire, England.

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Duffield, Derbyshire

Duffield is a village in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, north of Derby.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Eschede train disaster

On 3 June 1998, an ICE 1 train on the Hannover-Hamburg railway near Eschede in Lower Saxony, Germany derailed and crashed into an overpass that crossed the railroad, which then collapsed onto the train.

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Gatwick Express

Gatwick Express is an express rail passenger service between, Gatwick Airport, and in South East England.

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Gauntlet track

Gauntlet track or interlaced track, also gantlet track is an arrangement in which railway tracks run parallel on a single track bed and are interlaced (i.e., overlapped) in such a way that only one pair of rails can be used at any time.

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Grade (slope)

The grade (US) or gradient (UK) (also called stepth, slope, incline, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.

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Grand Central (train operating company)

Grand Central is an open-access train operating company in the United Kingdom.

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Hazelwood, Derbyshire

Hazelwood (until recently spelt Hazlewood) is a village in Derbyshire at the lower end of the Pennines around five miles north of Derby, England.

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Hellmann's and Best Foods

Hellmann's and Best Foods are American brand names that are used for the same line of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, sauce, salad dressing, condiments and other food products.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway or heritage railroad (U.S. usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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High Peak Trail

The High Peak Trail is a trail for walkers, cyclists and horse riders in the Peak District of England. Ecclesbourne Valley Railway and High Peak Trail are Tourist attractions of the Peak District.

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Hudswell Clarke

Hudswell, Clarke and Company Limited was an engineering and locomotive building company in Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Hull Trains

Hull Trains is an open-access railway operator in England owned by the multinational transport company FirstGroup.

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Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST

The Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST is a class of steam locomotive designed by Hunslet Engine Company for shunting.

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Idridgehay

Idridgehay is a village in the civil parish of Idridgehay and Alton, in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England.

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Idridgehay railway station

Idridgehay railway station is an intermediate station on the former Midland Railway branch line to the town of Wirksworth in Derbyshire.

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Light Railways Act 1896

The Light Railways Act 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 48) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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London and North Western Railway

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.

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Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junction Railway

The Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junction Railway ran from a junction with the Midland Railway at Ambergate to Rowsley north of Matlock and thence to Buxton.

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Matlock, Derbyshire

Matlock is the county town of Derbyshire, England.

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Midland Railway

The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844.

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Midland Railway – Butterley

The Midland Railway – Butterley is a heritage railway and museum complex at Butterley, near Ripley in Derbyshire. Ecclesbourne Valley Railway and Midland Railway – Butterley are heritage railways in Derbyshire.

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Mobile (TV series)

Mobile is a British television drama series, broadcast over three episodes, each featuring part of an interweaving plot involving a fictional mobile phone operator and the adverse effect of mobile phone radiation to health.

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Morecambe branch line

The Morecambe branch line is a railway line in Lancashire, England, from Lancaster to Morecambe and Heysham, where trains connect with ferries to Douglas, Isle of Man.

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National Geographic (American TV channel)

National Geographic (formerly National Geographic Channel; abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by the National Geographic Global Networks unit of Disney Entertainment and National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%), with the operational management handled by Disney Entertainment.

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Network Rail

Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain.

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North Midland Railway

The North Midland Railway was a railway line and British railway company, which opened a line from the city of Derby in Derbyshire to the city of Leeds in Yorkshire in 1840. Ecclesbourne Valley Railway and North Midland Railway are companies based in Derbyshire.

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Omya

Omya is a producer of industrial minerals, mainly fillers and pigments derived from calcium carbonate and dolomite, and a worldwide distributor of specialty chemicals.

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Percent sign

The percent sign (sometimes per cent sign in British English) is the symbol used to indicate a percentage, a number or ratio as a fraction of 100.

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Public limited company

A public limited company (legally abbreviated to PLC or plc) is a type of public company under United Kingdom company law, some Commonwealth jurisdictions, and the Republic of Ireland.

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Railcar

A railcar (not to be confused with a railway car) is a self-propelled railway vehicle designed to transport passengers.

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Railtrack

Railtrack was a group of companies that owned the track, signalling, tunnels, bridges, level crossings and all but a handful of the stations of the British railway system from 1994 until 2002.

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Railway semaphore signal

Railway semaphore signal is one of the earliest forms of fixed railway signals.

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Railway track

A railway track (British English and UIC terminology) or railroad track (American English), also known as a train track or permanent way (often "perway" in Australia), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.

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References

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

Also known as Ecclesbourne Valley Railway - Wirksworth, WyvernRail plc.

, Ravenstor railway station, River Derwent, Derbyshire, River Ecclesbourne, Rowsley, Seconds from Disaster, Shottle, Token (railway signalling), Trentbarton, W. G. Bagnall, Windley, Wirksworth, Wirksworth railway station, World War II.

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