Vacuum brake
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vacuum-brake-225-527689
title:
Vacuum brake
text:
The vacuum brake is a braking system employed on trains and introduced in the mid-1860s. A variant, the automatic vacuum brake system, became almost universal in British train equipment and in countries influenced by British practice. Vacuum brakes also enjoyed a brief period of adoption in the United States, primarily on narrow-gauge railroads. Their limitations caused them to be progressively superseded by compressed air systems starting in the United Kingdom from the 1970s onward. The vacuum
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Train braking system
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_brake
date created:
2003-06-22T18:15:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T19:31:16Z
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