trainpipe

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A form of train pipe — A brake pipe on a rail vehicle through which compressed air or vacuum is passed to operate the brakes throughout a train.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nountrainpipe (plural trainpipes)

plural trainpipes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of train pipe.

    The rest had vacuum ejectors and trainpipes added, but of course retained their Westinghouse equipment, and were very useful for specials from the Caledonian and North British, both Westinghouse lines.

    1941 January, David L. Smith, “Still More G. & S.W. Nights' Entertainment”, in Railway Magazine, page 16
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