Overspeed

Caully-flowers over-speeding to pome and head..should be quite erradicated ^([sic – meaning eradicated]).

The device should be periodically tested by overspeeding the engine say once a month.

Trashes are clogs strapped round the neck of a dog to prevent his overspeed.

Protection devices are provided for engine and locomotive overspeed (maximum service speed is set at 90 m.p.h.); [...].

Investigating four 'overspeed' incidents during hot weather on July 18/19, RAIB discovered that confusion over where the BESRs [blanket emergency speed restrictions] started and finished, as well as the routes to which they applied, were contributory factors. […] There were no consequences from the overspeeds, [resulting from the BESRs] which had been put in place owing to danger of buckled rails.