| 单词 | marshalling siding |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarshalling siding marshalling siding n. a railway siding in which wagons or carriages can be marshalled. ΚΠ 1875 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 41 14 Here the trucks should accumulate until near the hour of the train's departure, when they would be passed through a set of marshalling sidings to put them in their proper order. 1889 G. Findlay Working & Managem. Eng. Railway xi. 172 At certain important places throughout the country..schemes of marshalling sidings of elaborate construction and great extent have been laid down. 1906 Harmsworth Encycl. VIII. 536/1 The wagons are allowed to run down by gravitation, each one being turned into its proper marshalling siding to make up the trains that are to proceed in direction c. 1983 R. Davies & M. D. Grant London & its Railways 146/2 Shunters would then uncouple the train into sections or ‘cuts’, corresponding to the marshalling siding into which the wagons should be placed. < as lemmas |
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