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Definition of multiple unit in English: multiple unitnoun A diesel or electric passenger train of two or more carriages powered by integral motors which drive a number of axles throughout the train. Example sentencesExamples - Roundhouses were designed for steam locomotives and not easily adaptable to diesels, the turntable being a serious impediment to servicing multiple unit consists requiring them to be disconnected.
- Of course, multiple unit diesels with one engineer can do it, but it takes a lot of diesel horsepower to match the steam engine at speed.
- The Central London, originally equipped with locomotives, went over to Sprague-control multiple units in 1901; main-line railways in Paris and Berlin adopted it for suburban trains.
- It was opened in 1992 to serve the new fleet of BREL-built Class 159 diesel multiple units being introduced by British Rail's Network SouthEast business.
- About 150 guards in the RMT union at Midland Mainline have given the company notice of four 24-hour strikes in an escalation of a long running dispute over the safe operation of multiple unit trains.
- Don't forget that quite apart from the showpiece diesel hydraulic main line locomotives mentioned earlier, the works also produced dozens of diesel multiple units for BR and again there is not a single mention of any of this.
- Evening star, warship diesel, hydraulics, multiple units and the like came under the British Rail, Western Region banner.
- Normally the privately - run Wensleydale Railway operates diesel multiple units between Leeming Bar, Bedale, Leyburn and Redmire, but its staff have restored four Mark 2 coaches and a Pullman car for use this summer.
- The Divisional Railway Manager of Bangalore Division said that initially diesel multiple unit trains will be operated from the Cantonment station.
- Between 1978 and 1984 he came into contact with asbestos while working on diesel multiple units at BRB Ltd.
- He said that the new train needed to have ‘head end’ power, not underfloor engines which other diesels' multiple units use.
- I discovered that multiple unit train sets catering to regular passengers ran the same route hourly at no charge to Eurail pass holders - but without gourmet meals and tour guides.
- The railways gradually phased out the steam locomotives following the introduction of diesel engines and diesel electrical multiple units.
- The electrical multiple unit operates on outer suburban routes and takes passengers from King's Cross station in London to Peterborough in Cambridgeshire and King's Lynn in Norfolk.
- If you have 12-coach trains ie 3 multiple units, you need 12-coach platforms.
- Management wants to run multiple unit trains with only one guard.
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