单词 | re-railing |
释义 | re-railingn. 1. The action of placing a derailed train, carriage, etc., back upon the rails; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 283 Rerailing..is done with screw jacks and timber blocking, or with ramps. 1889 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 346/2 They are supposed to..have made possible the rerailing of the engine. 1940 Railroad Mag. Apr. 52/2 Shoo-fly, temporary track, usually built around a flooded area, a wreck, or some other obstacle; sometimes built merely to assist a rerailing. 1960 Chemins de Fer (Bureau Internat. de Documentation des Chemins de Fer) 212/3 Rerailing ramp. 2003 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 2 Jan. 4 Network Rail helped supervise the re-railing of the train which was expected to disrupt services for up to four hours as other trains were diverted around the scene. 2. The action of supplying a line, track, etc., with new rails. ΚΠ 1898 Railway Contract 1898: Act for Maintenance of Newfoundland Railway (61 Vic. c. 6) § 36 Fish-plates, fish-bolts and track spikes used in the construction of the branch lines and the re-railing of the line from Whitbourne towards St. John's. 1920 13th Ann. Rep. State of N.Y. Public Service Comm., 1st District 119 The rerailing of track on Amsterdam avenue from 135th street to 155th street has been completed. 1966 Times 2 Mar. 17/7 Materials for the re-railing programme of the Central and Southern Railways of Peru. 2000 Daily Tel. 3 Nov. 14/1 Most of the re-railing would be finished by Christmas but some of the more complex layouts would not be repaired until the spring. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1888 |
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