Railway 2.0 » RTRI http://www.railway20.net The Railway World looked from the Web Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:01:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Choosing the right word http://www.railway20.net/2009/07/choosing-the-right-word/ http://www.railway20.net/2009/07/choosing-the-right-word/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:00:05 +0000 Railway 2.0 http://www.railway20.net/?p=55 locomotiveAlmost everyday in a globalised world we, railway people, face the reality of working in English. Sometimes it can happen we are looking for the right word  to indicate “that damn piece of train” we know in our native language  but unfortunately not in English.

Luckily Internet is full of resources helping us and making our job easier. I know, there are plenty of paper dictonaries we can buy but what about trying to use free dictionaries when we can reach them just clicking on a link?

I think a good basis to start with can be the Railway Technical Terminology Dictionary by Japanese RTRI (Railway Technical Research Institute) offering drawings and traslations in English, German, French, Chinese and Japanese (of course!) of basic railway related terms.

It worths a bookmark.

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