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(rail transport) train equipment, usually mounted on bogies, used to transfer electric current from the third rail.
1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:
Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to facilitate maintenance and improve reliability, which have proved their worth on the prototype trains, are continued in the new stock.
1995, Colin J. Kirkland, “Locomotives”, in Engineering the Channel Tunnel, →ISBN, page 190:
In the third case, the need to provide retractable shoegear on the power bogies to pick up current from the third rail, and the equipment to use low-voltage supply, has complicated the design of the Eurostar trains.
2003, P. Hinde, J. Thompson, “Commissioning”, in International Conference on New Trains: 4-5 June 2003 at Le Meridien, York, UK, volume 2003 IMechE conference transactions, published 2004, →ISBN, The train operator's view of new train introduction, page 51:
Here shoegear and stepboards are refitted prior to a commissioning run conducted by the manufacturer which includes high speed and emergency brake tests.
2006, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee, quoting DJ Hartland, Reducing carbon emissions from transport: Oral and written evidence, →ISBN, London Underground Power Supplies. Electric Current Flow in Conductor Rails. Savings in Energy with Low Loss Rail, page 286:
The trains run on two additional rails and pick up current by means of shoegear making sliding contact with the conductor rails.
