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booking lad en · NOUN
Meanings
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(UK, dated) A young male employee in a signal box who records the movement of trains past the box.
This will provide a permanent automatic record of all train movements in the area of each box and eliminate the manual recording at present done by booking lads.
1964 November, “The Electrification of BR: 5 The Southern's Bournemouth scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 320:
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Synonyms
signal lad