brakevan

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A form of brake van — A railway vehicle used to brake a (goods) train, usually placed at the end of the train. These were essential before continuous train braking became universal.

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Meanings

nounbrakevan (plural brakevans)

plural brakevans

  1. alternativeAlternative form of brake van.
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    Daily for a week in December electric locomotive No. E5009 hauled a train consisting of one of the L.M.R. dynamometer cars and ten fully loaded ballast hopper wagons, with a ballast brakevan on each end, between Stewarts Lane and the Dover line; these were described in the special notices as "wheel slip tests".

    1960 February, “Motive Power Miscellany: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 122
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