driving wheel
English
editNoun
editdriving wheel (plural driving wheels)
- (rail transport) On a steam locomotive, a powered wheel driven by the locomotive's pistons or turbine.
- 1951 March, David R. Webb, “British 4-4-2 Tank Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 152:
- While not, perhaps, the handsomest of 4-4-2 tanks, as they had a rather large proportion of their driving wheels exposed, they proved very useful locomotives, doing yeoman work on suburban trains around London and Birmingham, and later on numerous rural routes.
Synonyms
edit- driver (sense 15)