buffer beam

A transverse metal beam at each end of a rail vehicle on which buffers, couplings, brake pipes etc. are mounted.

Noun

  1. A transverse metal beam at each end of a rail vehicle on which buffers, couplings, brake pipes etc. are mounted.
    • This locomotive was fitted experimentally with a seat on the front buffer beam, for the inspection of station gardens. - 1948 November and December, “The Holden 2-4-0 Locomotives of the L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine,...

Forms

buffer beams bufferbeam

Synonyms

headstock