sledge brake

English

Noun

sledge brake (plural sledge brakes)

  1. (rail transport, historical) An early type of track brake where a block or shoe was pressed against a rail.
    • 1958 September, “Talyllyn Railway and Museum”, in Railway Magazine, page 627, image caption:
      Furzebrook Railway (Dorset) wagon No. 28, with sledge brake, now preserved at the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum at Towyn Wharf Station
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