Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Wheel arrangement

Wheel arrangement

The most common system used to describe a steam locomotive's wheel arrangement is the Whyte system, which consists of three digits: the first represents the number of leading carrying wheels, the second denotes the number of driving wheels and the last refers to the number of trailing carrying wheels. The number may also be followed by a letter as follows: T = side tank engine, ST = saddle tank, PT = pannier tank and WT = well tank. Some European railways used the Whyte system, except that the number of axles is used instead of the number of wheels: 442 would therefore become 221. Letters were also introduced to denote driving axles, with numbers then referring to carrying axles (for example, CC = two groups of 3 driving axles, and 2D2 = two lots of two carrying axles with four driving axles in the middle).

This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
Improve it
  • Part of Speech: noun
  • Synonym(s):
  • Blossary:
  • Industry/Domain: Transportation
  • Category: Railway
  • Company:
  • Product:
  • Acronym-Abbreviation:
More
Collect to Blossary

Other Languages:

More

Member comments

You have to log in to post to discussions.

Related terms

wheel arrangement
Transportation; Railway

The most common system used to describe a steam locomotive's wheel arrangement is the Whyte system, which consists of three digits: the first represents the number of leading ...

wheel arrangement systems
Transportation; Railway

Different systems for denoting wheel arrangements have been developed in different countries. In the US and UK is usual to refer to a steam locomotive wheel layout numerically by ...

arrangement
Education; SAT vocabulary

The act of putting in proper order, or the state of being put in order.

arrangement
Library & information science; Library

The order in which information is presented in a book. Determining arrangement contributes to the effective use of that work.

arrangement
Musical equipment; Guitars

The setting of an original or standard tune for a given solo instrument or group of instruments.

arrangement
Software; Operating systems

A predefined combination of grouped and sorted messages in table view.

funiculaire
Transportation; Railway

Un funiculaire est une remontée mécanique équipée de véhicules circulant sur des rails en pente et dont la traction est assurée par un câble.

cable railway
Transportation; Railway

A cable railway is a steeply graded railway that uses a cable or rope to haul trains.

shunter's whistle
Transportation; Railway

the use of a whistle to announce that a train is manoeuvering

platform
Transportation; Railway

Raised structure in stations providing access to the cars or wagons.

platform starting signal
Transportation; Railway

Stop signal located at the end of the platform.

points
Transportation; Railway

Device or junction where the track divides into two or more diverging lines or where two or more lines converge into one track. Points are made up of three parts: the actual point ...

Terms in the News

Featured Terms

Harry8L
  • 0

    Terms

  • 0

    Blossaries

  • 1

    Followers

Industry/Domain: Mobile communications Category: Mobile phones

Samsung Galaxy S3

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is the latest smartphone model by South Korean electronic giant Samsung Electronics. It overtook the Apple iPhone 4S to become ...

Contributor

Featured blossaries

Mergers and Aquisitions by Google

Category: Business   4 20 Terms

Journalistic Terms and Expressions

Category: Education   1 12 Terms

Browers Terms By Category

TERMS

SOCIAL

EXTRAS

SOLUTIONS