sledge brake

noun

An early type of track brake where a block or shoe was pressed against a rail.

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nounsledge brake (plural sledge brakes)

plural sledge brakes

  1. historicalrail transportAn early type of track brake where a block or shoe was pressed against a rail.

    Furzebrook Railway (Dorset) wagon No. 28, with sledge brake, now preserved at the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum at Towyn Wharf Station

    1958 September 29, “Talyllyn Railway and Museum”, in Railway Magazine, page 627, image caption
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