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A1A-A1A en · NOUN
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(uncountable) A wheel arrangement for diesel and electric locomotives with two three-axle bogies / trucks, the two outer axles of each bogie are powered and the centre axle is unpowered.
There are five double-bogie A1A-A1A British-built diesel-electric locomotives, which are normally worked back-to-back under the control of a single driver.
1960 April 14, H. P. White, “The Railways of Sierra Leone”, in Railway Magazine, page 284:
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(countable) A locomotive with this wheel arrangement.
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