English

The solebar of this British Rail Class 20 locomotive is the horizontal beam painted light green

Alternative forms

• sole-bar (dated)

Noun

solebar ‎(plural solebars)

1. (rail transport, Britain, 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.
   • 1995, Roger Ford, “Locomotives”, in Colin J. Kirkland, editor, Engineering the Channel Tunnel, Taylor & Francis, ISBN 9780419179207, 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, Brain S. Neale, editor, Forensic engineering: the investigation of failures, Thomas Telford, ISBN 9780727730947, 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, ISBN 9781902368092, 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, Univerlagtuberlin, ISBN 9783798319554, 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

• arbelos, balsero