Consolidation

See also: consolidation

English

Noun

Consolidation (plural Consolidations)

1. (rail transport) A steam locomotive of the 2-8-0 wheel arrangement, first built in the United States in 1866.
   • 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 45:

     W.D. 2-8-0s have replaced Gresley Consolidations to a great extent on mineral and slow freight trains.