pump trolley

See also: pump-trolley

English

pump trolley

Alternative forms

• pump-trolley

Noun

pump trolley (plural pump trolleys)

1. A light railroad car propelled by a hand-operated pumping mechanism; a handcar.
   • 1901, George Gipps, The Fighting in North China (up to the Fall of Tientsin City), Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, →OL, page 40:

     The train, minus the three abandoned trucks, again proceeded at a slow pace, with a pump trolley doing pilot ahead ; this was very necessary as a great many sleepers were found to have been burnt underneath the fishplates.

   • 1910 March 4, “Supply Trade Section: Fairbanks-Morse Inspection Car”, in Railway Age Gazette, volume 48, number 9, page 509:

     A gang was sent out on a pump trolley and the inspection car followed.

   • 1976, J. William Calder, All Aboard, Formac Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OL, page 118:

     Immediately after the train had pulled away from St. Peters, Alfred Morrison, section foreman along with his helper, Frank Lindloft, took off with the pump trolley.

Synonyms

• handcar
• jigger
• Kalamazoo (Australia)
• pump car