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Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / rail | | French term or phrase: culbutage | From a description of a coal-fired power plant:
"La Centrale comporte des installations de livraison du charbon par voie ferrée composée en particulier d’un réseau ferré interne, d’un bâtiment de **culbutage** des wagons, de trémies de réception et de transporteurs à bande permettant d’amener le charbon vers le bâtiment des mélanges et vers l’aire de stockage."
This is offered as "tumbling" in the glossary, which doesn't fit in this case. My various searches on the net suggest dumping or tipping, but I wonder if anyone can confirm this?
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| | tippling | Explanation:
In proper (coal-)mining parlance, though a place like Denniston might have been all the 'ell West Coast miners might have wanted, Ben.
It was not equipped with any doors, so was clearly intended for rotary/side tippling of internal coal traffic at a colliery. Metal bumpers are fitted on the ...
homepage.ntlworld.com/foxfield/ncbtippler.htm
the established methods of tippling coal from flat. wagons being inadequate. ...
portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=805210&type=pdf
This existing coal washing and tippling facility discharges treated wastewater and storm water into New River in Scott County. Coal Proposed Reclamations ...
listserv.utk.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0212&L=tcwn&P=275
Tippling
Discharging of coal (or other material) from a railway wagon.
http://www.ee-oz.com.au/resources/misc/1964.pdf
Tippler:- The place where the mine cars were tipped and emptied of coal, ...
www.pitwork.net/defs.htm
TIPPLER, Rotating frame used for automatically discharging coal from skips. ...
www.coalportal.com/static/glossary
reg, seem`s like part of a dram tippler, the claws to stop dram falling off end of ...
www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1172,2691
[dram tippler? Sounds like a Scots drunk] [suspect "dram" is a deformation of "tram", a mining word for a mine car]
In this glossary, Mr F. Danvers-Powers defines "scalloping" as a holing-out by means of ... From the tipplers, coal fell onto three steel shaker screens. ...
www.amol.org.au/Newcastle/Greta/stme.html
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Local time: 02:45
| Grading comment Yes, this seems to be the right term - despite sounding like maiden aunts' drinking habits... Many thanks as ever!
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
1 hr confidence: bottom door wagon
Explanation:
a railway network using bottom door wagons, a rail head, etc...
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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-01-27 21:45:00 GMT)
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OR: a railway network, a bottom door wagon rail head, etc.
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4 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 tippling
Explanation:
In proper (coal-)mining parlance, though a place like Denniston might have been all the 'ell West Coast miners might have wanted, Ben.
It was not equipped with any doors, so was clearly intended for rotary/side tippling of internal coal traffic at a colliery. Metal bumpers are fitted on the ...
homepage.ntlworld.com/foxfield/ncbtippler.htm
the established methods of tippling coal from flat. wagons being inadequate. ...
portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=805210&type=pdf
This existing coal washing and tippling facility discharges treated wastewater and storm water into New River in Scott County. Coal Proposed Reclamations ...
listserv.utk.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0212&L=tcwn&P=275
Tippling
Discharging of coal (or other material) from a railway wagon.
http://www.ee-oz.com.au/resources/misc/1964.pdf
Tippler:- The place where the mine cars were tipped and emptied of coal, ...
www.pitwork.net/defs.htm
TIPPLER, Rotating frame used for automatically discharging coal from skips. ...
www.coalportal.com/static/glossary
reg, seem`s like part of a dram tippler, the claws to stop dram falling off end of ...
www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1172,2691
[dram tippler? Sounds like a Scots drunk] [suspect "dram" is a deformation of "tram", a mining word for a mine car]
In this glossary, Mr F. Danvers-Powers defines "scalloping" as a holing-out by means of ... From the tipplers, coal fell onto three steel shaker screens. ...
www.amol.org.au/Newcastle/Greta/stme.html
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