- Foot Plate
- That area behind the fire box
 , where the driver and fireman stand to operate the locomotive.
- Footplates
- Another name for Running Plates .
- Foot Warmers
- Metal cylinders filled with very hot water or chemicals at stations and placed on the floor of coaches not fitted with any form of heating. Steam and electric heating rendered them obsolete by the mid 1920s.
- Fouling
- The act of blocking one line with a movement or stationary train on another line. Usually occurs when train has not pulled far enough into a siding , or when shunting wagons and the running line is used as a head shunt .
- Four Cylinder Compound
- Any compound locomotive having four cylinders, two high pressure and two low-pressure.
- Four foot
- A commonly used term for ‘between the rails’ (UK standard gauge being 4 foot 8½ inches).
- Frame
- The frame connects the wheels to the boiler, and supports the cylinders. Typically the frames are made from two Frame Plates running the length of the Locomotive, held the correct distance apart by Frame Stretchers .
- Frame Plate
- Almost all British railway engines were built on plate frames,
that is two parallel thick (c.1in – 1.25in) steel plates running front to back of the engine, in which the horn guides and axle boxes were located.
- Frame Slotter
- Large machine used to cut out the slots and other apertures in the
frame plates which were necessary to locate the horn guides and other components.
- Frame Stretchers
- These are pieces of plate steel that run from side to side keeping the frames the correct distance, and make a number of boxes down the length of the locomotive, thus adding to the rigidity of the locomotive.
- Frog
- The solid central section of a point or crossing, usually “V” shaped.
- Front Tube Plate
- The tube plate that divides the boiler from the smoke box .
- Fruit Van
- A ventilated van used to carry fresh fruit.
- Full Brake
- A coach type railway vehicle with accommodation for luggage and guard, but not passengers.
- Full Cab
- The crew on the foot plate are offered much protection from the elements by a cover that has a front, a roof and a back. Contrast with Half Cab .
- Furness Railway (FR)
- An independent railway, originally built from the slate quarries at Kirkby-in-Furness and the iron ore mines at Dalton to a shipping place on Roa Island, it expanded to make a junction with the LNWR at Carnforth (by taking over the Ulverston & Lancaster Railway ) and to Whitehaven (by amalgamation with the Whitehaven & Furness Junction Railway ). There were a couple of important branch lines, particularly for the tourist traffic, to Coniston and Windermere (Lakeside). Famous for its Indian-red engines and blue and white carriages, it became part of the LMS in 1923.
- Furniture van wagon
- A low-loader wagon designed for carrying furniture vans and other tall loads. This is what your removal firm used when you moved house in Victorian and Edwardian days! The LNW built only Diagram D.38 and D.38A for this purpose but they were widely used. The design was highly modified to obtain the lowest possible load bed.
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