contact shoe
English
A third rail contact shoe
Noun
contact shoe (plural contact shoes)
- (rail transport) A current collector on an electric train which is in contact with the live rail.
- A part of a pantograph on a train or tram which, when raised, maintains contact with an overhead electric wire.
- 1963 January, “Motive power miscellany”, in Modern Railways, page 64:
- The leading locomotive of the double-headed 3.5 p.m. Manchester Piccadilly-Plymouth shed the contact shoe of its pantograph, which bounced back along the roof and hit the pantograph of the second locomotive, which thereupon lost its contact shoe also.