Solebar

Quick meaning: Solebar is a noun meaning (rail transport, UK, 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.

Meaning

(rail transport, UK, 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.

Example Sentences

Sometimes the door also cuts off main structural components such as the solebar or cantrail.

[...] the original Chalice built coaches have a deep solebar, while the Keef coaches were much shallower.

The shuttle locomotive body is a conventional stress-skin monocoque structure, with longitudinal members at solebar and cantrail levels.

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.

Word Forms

• solebars
• sole-bar

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include longitudinal, bodyshell, bufferbeam, footplate, footrail, lineside.

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