marshalling yard en · NOUN
Meanings
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A railway yard where trains are assembled from individual carriages or goods wagons.
Five marshalling yards in the vicinity—Pontypool Road, Rogerstone, Alexandra Dock Junction, East Usk Junction and Severn Tunnel Junction—remarshal much of this traffic into full train loads to destination.
1963 February, G. M. Kichenside, “The Newport (Mon.) resignalling scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 125:In passing we must glance at marshalling yards. Of course, until the unit of the country's trade is a train-load and not something less than a wagon-load, marshalling yards will continue to be a necessary evil.
1963 January, G. F. Fiennes, “The "Merry-go-Round" Railway - a new plan for mineral trains”, in Modern Railways, page 20:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| marshalling yards | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| marshaling yard | alternative | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (12)
pl stacja rozrządowa (railway yard) · fr gare de triage (railway yard) · cmn 編組場 /编组场 (railway yard) · cmn 編組站 /编组站 (railway yard) · de Rangierbahnhof (railway yard) · nl rangeerterrein (railway yard) · cmn 調車場 /调车场 (railway yard) · ko 조차장 (railway yard) · sv rangerbangård (railway yard) · fi järjestelyratapiha (railway yard) · ja 操車場 (railway yard) · ca platja de classificació (railway yard)