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single-driver en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (UK, obsolete) A steam locomotive with a single driving axle.
    • A few such examples have been preserved, as is well known, such as one of the Stirling 8-ft. singles of the late Great Northern Railway, the Great Western 4-4-0 City of Truro, ex-Caledonian single-driver No. 123, the Brighton 0-4-2 Gladstone, and others. 1945 March and April, “Preserving Historic Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 64:

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Synonyms

single