track buffer stop
1Buffer stop — A buffer stop or bumper (US) is a device to prevent railway vehicles from going past the end of a section of track.The design of the buffer stop is dependent in part upon the kind of couplings that the railway uses, since the coupling gear is the …
2buffer stop — noun Etymology: buffer (III) Britain : a bumping post placed at the end of a track in train sheds or at stations as an emergency stop for incoming trains and locomotives …
3Buffer — can refer to: * Buffer state, a country lying between two potentially hostile greater powers, thought to prevent conflict between them * Buffer zone, any area that keeps two or more other areas distant from one another, may be demilitarized *… …
4Track circuit interrupter — A track circuit interrupter may be fitted at catch points, trap points or buffer stops to maintain a track circuit in the occupied state in the event of a derailment. The track circuit remains de energised until the interrupter is replaced.… …
5Buffer (rail transport) — Cutaway model of a buffer …
6Track (rail transport) — Permanent way redirects here. For other uses, see Permanent way (disambiguation). Twin rail tracks in a wooded area …
7Track transition curve — The red Euler spiral is an example of an easement curve between a blue straight line and a circular arc, shown in green …
8Circular buffer — A ring showing, conceptually, a circular buffer. This visually shows that the buffer has no real end and it can loop around the buffer. However, since memory is never physically created as a ring, a linear representation is generally used as is… …
99 track tape — The IBM System/360, released in 1964, introduced what is now generally known as 9 track tape. The magnetic tape is 1/2 inch (12.65 mm) wide, with 8 data tracks and one parity track for a total of 9 parallel tracks. Data is stored as 8 bit… …
10IBM 7 track — [ right|thumb|280px|An IBM 704 mainframe with IBM 727 seven track tape drives on the left. (image courtesy of LLNL)] IBM s first magnetic tape data storage devices, introduced in 1952, use what is now generally known as 7 track tape. The magnetic …
