Hot Box

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A term for an axle box which has become over heated because of a breakdown of lubrication or excessive overloading. Nowadays largely eliminated by the adoption of roller bearing axleboxes which have replaced plain bearing axleboxes. Lineside hot box detectors are used by some railways.

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