saddle tank

English

Noun

saddle tank (plural saddle tanks)

1. (rail transport) Alternative form of saddletank.
   • 1939 June, “Pertinent Paragraphs: Furness Railway Veterans”, in Railway Magazine, page 458:

     In 1863 the Furness Railway purchased its last batch of 0-4-0 tender engines from Sharp Stewart & Co. of Manchester. [...] These locomotives had only a short life with the F.R., for the railway sold them in 1870 to Schneider & Hannay, now the Barrow Haematite Steel Co., and the latter converted them into saddle tanks.

References

• “saddle tank”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.