axleload

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A form of axle load — the total weight, including load carried, transferred by one axle and its wheels to a road or railway surface. This is especially important in relation to what weight road and railway structures can carry, bridges in particular.

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Meanings

nounaxleload (plural axleloads)

plural axleloads

  1. alternativeAlternative form of axle load.

    The weight of the V160, 74 tons loaded, and its axleload, 18½ tons, compare with the V200's 84 and 21 tons respectively.

    1961 May, “New European motive power: 2 - Recent German and Austrian diesel units: The German V160”, in Trains Illustrated, page 306
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    Ultimately the four-wheel type was selected which, weighing 45 tons fully loaded, is just within the 22½-ton maximum axleload.

    1962 December, “Iron ore traffic for the Spencer works”, in Modern Railways, page 411

Origin

From axle + load.

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