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

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Noun

solebar (plural solebars)

1. (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.
   • 1951 May, “British Railways Standard Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 327:

     The underframe, which has been designed to take buffing loads of 200 tons both on the centre coupler and on the retractable side buffers, consists of two centre girders from which cantilevers project to support the solebars, which in turn carry the bodyside structure.

   • 1995, Roger Ford, “Locomotives”, in Colin J. Kirkland, editor, Engineering the Channel Tunnel‎^[1], 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, edited by Brain S. Neale, Forensic engineering: the investigation of failures‎^[2], 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^[3], →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^[4], 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

Anagrams

• Rabelos, Rosabel, arbelos, balsero, labrose