| 单词 | marshalling yard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarshalling yard marshalling yard n. a railway yard in which trains can be assembled from individual wagons or carriages. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > yard wagon-yard1827 yard1827 train depot1833 railway yard1854 trainyard1866 marshalling yard1877 rail yard1888 1877 J. N. Shoolbred tr. C. Couche Permanent Way, Rolling Stock & Techn. Working Railways I. 486 These various operations just enumerated are now often concentrated at a single spot, near to a junction for example; and called a marshalling yard. 1906 Railway Mag. 18 180/1 On one side of the line is seen the recently constructed sorting and marshalling yard. 1940 Times 25 Sept. 4/1 One of the aircraft which bombed a marshalling yard only a few miles from the heart of Berlin. 1967 G. F. Fiennes I tried to run Railway v. 56 I started to draw a double direction marshalling yard. 1986 I. Banks Bridge iii. i. 192 It wound sinuously, slowly, through a great marshalling yard towards a long, low station. 2003 J. Kelly Trackside Scenes you can Model 12/1 At the marshalling yard. the loaded cars are assembled (marshalled) into longer cross-country trains, and the incoming empties are divvied out. < as lemmas |
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