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.....provides free articles about railways, using the UK railway system as the base technology with more articles and information about other systems, like the US, as appropriate. Articles and glossaries are provided for a range of subjects. These include planning, finance, operations, design, engineering, production and maintenance. There is also some information about steam locomotives, including a glossary and an explanation of wheel arrangement descriptions.
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Diagrams like this one are provided throughout the articles to show sections of infrastructure, plans of stations, railway signs, signals, features and how equipment works.
This diagram is an sample schematic of the pneumatic auxiliary equipment on a train and is described fully in an article on this site here.
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