running board

English

The running boards (with handrails) can be seen on these South African locomotives

Noun

running board (plural running boards)

1. A narrow board serving as a step beneath the doors of some cars.
   • 1962 March, “Dutch diesel and electric locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 173, photo caption:

     One of the "locomotors", a 72 h.p. machine for light yard shunting which can be driven by a shunter from the running board. [A long step on the side just above rail level]

2. (rail transport) A narrow footway above the driving wheels of some steam locomotives, and along the sides of some diesel locomotives.

Translations

step under the car door

• Catalan: marxapeu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跑板 (pǎobǎn)

• Finnish: astinlauta (fi)
• French: marchepied (fr) m
• Georgian: საფეხური (sapexuri)
• German: Trittbrett (de) n
• Japanese: 踏み板 (ふみいた, fumiita), 踏み段 (ふみだん, fumidan), ステップ (ja) (suteppu)
• Polish: stopień (pl) m
• Portuguese: estribo (pt) m
• Russian: подно́жка (ru) f (podnóžka), ступе́нька (ru) f (stupénʹka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ногоступ m

  Roman: nogostup (sh) m

• Spanish: estribo (es)
• Turkish: marşpiye
• Ukrainian: підні́жка f (pidnížka), схо́динка f (sxódynka)

Further reading

• running board on Wikipedia.Wikipedia