close-coupled

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kləʊsˈkʌpəld/

Adjective

close-coupled (not comparable)

1. Attached, coupled or fixed close together.
   • 1950 April, R. A. H. Weight, “They Passed by My Window”, in Railway Magazine, page 255, photo caption:

     Great Northern Railway outer-suburban passenger train of close-coupled four-wheel coaches, hauled by Ivatt 4-4-2 tank locomotive painted grey with white lettering in 1915, as a wartime measure

   • 1961 February, “Letters to the Editor: Swiss railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 126:

     Actually, as built, these were the motive power ends of two passenger railcars, each being close-coupled to a driving trailer which had only one axle at the locomotive end and a bogie at the other.

References

• “close-coupled”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.