Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
caisse
English translation:
(car) body sections
French term
caisse
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4 +1 | (car) body sections | B D Finch |
4 +2 | car | polyglot45 |
1 +2 | compartment / bay / section | Tony M |
3 | carriage (UK) car (US) | Katherine Rutter |
Feb 26, 2016 07:04: Tony M changed "Field (specific)" from "Automotive / Cars & Trucks" to "Transport / Transportation / Shipping" , "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "tram"
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Proposed translations
(car) body sections
www.lrta.org › Magazine › Magazine ArticlesAfter a slow start Siemens is making a major impact with its modular tram By ... with one or two doors, intermediate body section with or without powered bogie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tram
"Articulated trams, invented and first used by the Boston Elevated Railway in 1912–13[33] at a total length of about twelve meters long (40 ft) for each pioneering example of twin-section articulated tram car, have two or more body sections, connected by flexible joints and a round platform at their pivoting midsection(s). Like articulated buses, they have increased passenger capacity. In practice, these trams can be up to 53 metres (174 ft) long (such as in Budapest, Hungary), while a regular tram has to be much shorter. With this type, the articulation is normally suspended between carbody sections.
In the Škoda ForCity, which is the world's first 100% low floor tram with pivoting bogies, a Jacobs bogie supports the articulation between the two or more carbody sections. An articulated tram may be low-floor variety or high (regular) floor variety. Newer model trams may be up to 72 metres (236 ft) long and carry 510 passengers at a comfortable 4 passengers/m2. At crush loadings this would be even higher."
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Note added at 7 hrs (2016-02-26 14:09:55 GMT)
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Sorry, that should have been "(car) body section", singular!
compartment / bay / section
Clearly not 'compartment' in the sense of the closed compartments you get on some trains!
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Chakib Roula
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شكرا Chakib!
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Istvan Nagy
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Thanks, Istvan!
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car
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes_tramway
Trams are like trains and metros: they can be made up of several cars (or coaches) coupled together.
A "caisse" is a vehicle body (as opposed to the châssis or "underframe)
Just look at the picture in the link and you will see
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chris collister
: Has to be (though I think "caisse" can also be used pejoratively like "bagnole")!// I know, I know, it was a joke!! I'm sure they're very smart!
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it can but, trust me, not here. This is Alstom speak// sorry - temporary loss of sense of humour !
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Istvan Nagy
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Tony M
: I have the gravest doubts! Even allowing for the fact that a tram MIGHT have 5 cars, I can't see the logic why screens would be installed only in the 2 centre ones, and that this centre ones, or that these 2 would be larger than the others?
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because the ones at the ends have the driver's cab part which reduces seating space. And screens in the middle means people can see them from the furthest part at either end
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carriage (UK) car (US)
The word "carriages" is used in the "newspapers" section of the Manchester Metrolink page about the environment.
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/thesaurus-category/british/parts-of-trains-trams-and-cable-cars
http://www.metrolink.co.uk/using-the-network/Pages/metrolink-and-the-environment.aspx
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Tony M
: I have the gravest doubts! Even allowing for the fact that a tram MIGHT have 5 cars, I can't see the logic why screens would be installed only in the 2 centre ones, and that this centre ones, or that these 2 would be larger than the others?
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B D Finch
: Those are non-specialist sources; the correct term is "car" in UK English too. See www.alangeorge.co.uk/tramcars.htm glasgowtransport.co.uk/trams.html
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