trailing en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈtɹeɪ.lɪŋ/
Meanings
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(not-comparable, of points and crossovers) That converge in the direction of travel.
On the far hillside we are approaching can be descried a bridge on the first section (Ruabon–Llangollen) of the important G.W.R. branch to Dolgelley, which will shortly join our main line by means of a trailing junction.
1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
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(not-comparable) That follows behind; especially, that is attached and pulled behind.
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Having reversed at Eastbourne, I am in the trailing car, which leaps and fishtails around so much on our way to Bexhill that I have trouble writing coherent notes.
2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:the trailing railcars
the trailing comments
On the long, continuous downgrades of East Africa dynamic braking is of special value; the traction motors are used as generators and their energy output dissipated in force-ventilated banks of resistors. This facility enables a 700-ton trailing load, for example, to be brought down a 1 in 66 gradient at any selected speed between 14 and 25 m.p.h. without use of the air brakes.
1961 February, “New English Electric diesels for East Africa”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 90–91:
Antonyms
Deriveds
trailingly · trailing spoke · trailing s · trailing edge · nontrailing
Relateds
tractor-trailer · trailer · semi-trailer
Translations (3)
de nachziehend (rail transport: converging in the direction of travel) · de nachschleppend (rail transport: converging in the direction of travel) · de anhängend (rail transport: converging in the direction of travel)