Talk:Vacuum brake

message: Are vacuum brakes employed on heavy road vehicles and if not, why?Myrtone (the strict Australian wikipedian)
Use on road vehicles: Vacuum brakes were originally developed to provide a continuous brake through all the vehicles in a train. This was not necessary in a road vehicle. Furthermore, the requirement to maintain the vacuum (using the small ejector) meant a constant bleed of steam from the boiler, which would be harder to sustain in a road locomotive. It would have been simpler to use a straightforward steam brake, where a small piston acts directly on the brakes only when required. Indeed, this was the method used on "freight-only" rail locomotives intended for use on unfitted stock (i.e. waggons which carried only hand-operated brakes). Moonraker88 20:50, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Road vehicles? 

message: The opposition on the grounds of cost (particularly by the LNWR and it`s chairman Richard Moon) to the fitting of the automatic type of brake meant that it took a serious accident at Armagh in 1889 before legislation compelled the automatic system.
 
Why has this sentence, which I researched back in 2006 (but have only just noticed) been removed ?
As far as I`m aware Richard Moon of the LNWR holds an infamous part in the history of the continuous vacuum brake.
--JustinSmith (talk) 18:45, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikiblame points to this edit. Perhaps it was deleted accidentally in this major change, possibly while intending to move it down to a "History" section or similar.--Old Moonraker (talk) 20:37, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Richard Moon was not the only LNWR officer opposed to the automatic vacuum brake. F.W. Webb held a share of the patent rights for a mechanical continuous brake (the notorious Clark & Webb Chain Brake), and so received a royalty on every installation of it. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:12, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opposition to continuous brakes 

message: Some people may come to this article to read about vacuum brakes in vehicles.. perhaps add at top: This article is about vacuum brakes on trains. For the usage of vacuum for brakes in cars, see Vacuum servo. Charlieb000 (talk) 23:48, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add a shortcut to another artice... 

message: It seems a bit redundant given how it should be fairly obvious how inferior a system where you toot the whistle so that your mate can apply a single set of brakes in one wagon right at the end of the train is vs one where all the wheels of all the vehicles in the train are operated more or less simultaneously via a single lever in the locomotive, but, someone put a "how so?" tag on that sentence, so here we are. Hopefully my exposition passes muster. I was going to add something about how train brakes were considered scandalously insufficient for the task at hand even during the mid 19th century and there were newspaper-led campaigns to improve safety standards, but properly backing that up will require a citation scavenger hunt that I really don't have the taste for right now. There's enough evidence of it spread around the various articles detailing individual early-days railway disasters, however, if someone wants to give THAT a go... 80.189.129.200 (talk) 17:35, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "clearly unsatisfactory" explanation 

message: Clearly, the inventor of the brake was an Indian, Col Guruprasad Das.
Please find the citations herewith. Uddhav9 (talk) 19:30, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inventor of the brake?