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Kingdom/Australia) (colloquially a banker), banking engine, helper engine or pusher engine (North America) is a railway locomotive that temporarily assists a train...

Worcestershire. In earlier times many trains required the assistance of banking locomotives with associated logistical considerations to ensure that the train...

A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.: 80  It is fuelled by...

The Indian locomotive class WAG-9 is a class of 25 kV AC electric locomotives that was developed in 1995 by ABB for Indian Railways. The model name stands...

switcher locomotive (American English), shunter locomotive (British English), or shifter locomotive (Pennsylvania Railroad terminology) is a locomotive used...

a single 0-10-0 steam locomotive, No 2290 (later LMS (1947) 22290 and BR 58100). It was designed by James Anderson for banking duties on the Lickey Incline...

A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. If a locomotive is capable of carrying a payload, it is...

train which required banking would be signalled to the banking locomotives by Gloucester Panel Signal Box, so that the banking crew could then determine...

Originally, during much of the steam era, a large number of pilot and banking locomotives were required to assist heavy trains traverse the challenging gradients...

in 1967. The EWs continued to have a role in this, primarily as a banking locomotive. In 1980, EW159 (EW 1805) was briefly sent to Otira following the...

The Banking Class were five 0-6-0ST Brunel gauge steam locomotives for assisting ("banking") trains up inclines on the Great Western Railway. Designed...

heavy and had been stood in the queue from Sprotborough Junction a banking locomotive was provided. This came from Mexborough depot and was usually a J11...

2011 Japan Railways locomotive numbering and classification Seki, Takahiro (December 2012). "セノハチの後押し機関車" [Senohachi Banking locomotives]. Japan Railfan Magazine...

EF210-0, full-production version Class EF210-100 Class EF210-300, banking locomotives The pre-production prototype, EF210-901, was delivered to Shin-Tsurumi...

of 29 ‰ and, even today, heavy goods trains require an additional banking locomotive at the front or rear of the train. The Franconian Forest Railway leaves...

in 25 (4%). Loaded sand trains to Grovebury Sidings often needed a banking locomotive. At the bottom of Marley's Bank the line turns sharply north and runs...

which had a low, central body to allow forward visibility (for the banking locomotive) on the steeply-graded Pontnewynydd line in south Wales; it had an...

as trains got longer the WAP-3 struggled to perform and required banking locomotives on moderately graded sections, and so did not meet their design goals...

distance to more level track to give it a run at the gradient and a banking locomotive provided, sometimes on damp days too. The "Paddy Mails" ceased running...

A Garratt locomotive is a type of articulated steam locomotive invented by British engineer Herbert William Garratt that is articulated into three parts...