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inside-cylinder en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of a steam locomotive, having its cylinders, normally two, inside the frame; a three or four-cylinder locomotive would have cylinders both inside and outside the frame.
    • No. 61572 is the last of this former Great Eastern type still in service, and thus also the sole-surviving inside-cylinder 4-6-0 locomotive on British Railways 1960 April 14, “Great Eastern 4-6-0 Swan-Songs”, in Railway Magazine, page 255, image caption: