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Description The standard type of coupling on railways following the British tradition is the buffer and chain coupling used on the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway of 1830. These couplings followed earlier tramway practice but were made more regular. The vehicles are coupled by hand using a hook and links with a turnbuckle-like device that draws the vehicles together. In Britain, this is called a screw coupling. Vehicles have buffers, one at each corner on the ends, which are pulled together and compressed by the coupling device. This arrangement limits the slack in trains and lessens shocks.
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Source Train connections.
Author Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand
Camera location43° 36′ 15.45″ S, 172° 43′ 21.16″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Bernard Spragg at https://flickr.com/photos/88123769@N02/8711728369 (archive). It was reviewed on 22 January 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-zero.

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