"close-coupled" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1950 April, R. A. H. Weight, “They Passed by My Window”, in Railway Magazine, page 255, photo caption:",
          "text": "Great Northern Railway outer-suburban passenger train of close-coupled four-wheel coaches, hauled by Ivatt 4-4-2 tank locomotive painted grey with white lettering in 1915, as a wartime measure",
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          "ref": "1961 February, “Letters to the Editor: Swiss railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 126:",
          "text": "Actually, as built, these were the motive power ends of two passenger railcars, each being close-coupled to a driving trailer which had only one axle at the locomotive end and a bogie at the other.",
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        "Attached, coupled or fixed close together."
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          "ref": "1950 April, R. A. H. Weight, “They Passed by My Window”, in Railway Magazine, page 255, photo caption:",
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