footplate in English
noun
1
the platform for the crew in the cab of a locomotive.
IN 1969 notices went up in rail depots across the nation asking for volunteers to work on the footplate of steam locomotive Flying Scotsman during a forthcoming promotional visit to the US.
Use "footplate" in a sentence
Below are sample sentences containing the word "footplate" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "footplate", or refer to the context using the word "footplate" in the English Dictionary.
1. Step on the footplate with one foot, insert the other foot heel first into the yoke of the Bootjack and pull your foot out of the boot
2. When using the idler wheel only,(sentence dictionary) fix the brace on the axes of the two idler wheels in paratactic or in series and the top of brace has footplate axes.