solebar

English

The solebar of this British Rail Class 20 locomotive is the horizontal beam painted light green

Alternative forms

  • sole-bar (dated)

Etymology

sole + bar

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

solebar (plural solebars)

  1. (rail transport, Britain, Australia) One of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor.
    • 1995, Roger Ford, “Locomotives”, in Colin J. Kirkland, editor, Engineering the Channel Tunnel, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, Rolling stock, page 178:
      The shuttle locomotive body is a conventional stress-skin monocoque structure, with longitudinal members at solebar and cantrail levels.
    • 2001, A.P.Brights, N. Kirk, S. Manteghi and P.J. Murrell, Brain S. Neale, editor, Forensic engineering: the investigation of failures, Thomas Telford, →ISBN, Ladbroke Grove crashworthiness accident investigation, page 16:
      The bolster to solebar weld on one side, and the weld between the solebar and the front headstock on the other side had broken completely.
    • 2001, Peter Scott, A History of the Butlin's Railways: The Story of Billy Butlin's Amusement Park and Holiday Camp Miniature Railways, Including Other Associated Railways and Transport Systems, →ISBN, page 72:
      [...] the original Chalice built coaches have a deep solebar, while the Keef coaches were much shallower.
    • 2005, Jan Prockat, Developing large structural parts for railway application using a fibre reinforced polymer design, Univerlagtuberlin, →ISBN, Lightweight Design, page 44:
      Sometimes the door also cuts off main structural components such as the solebar or cantrail.

Synonyms

  • side sill (US)

See also

  • cantrail

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