(rail transport) train equipment, usually mounted on bogies, used to transfer electric current from the third rail.
1995, Colin J. Kirkland, Engineering the Channel Tunnel Chapter Locomotives, In the third case, the need to provide retractable shoegear on the power bogies to pick up current from teh third rail, and teh equipment to use low-voltage supply, has complicated the design of the Eurostar trains.
2006, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee, Reducing carbon emissions from transport: Oral and written evidence Chapter , The trains run on two addtional rails and pick up current by means of shoegear making sliding contact with the conductor rails.
