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right-away signal en · NOUN
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(UK) A signal given to a train driver by the guard of the train, or a member of station staff, that the train is ready to depart.
Travelling porters do not ride in the trains at off-peak times, when guards supervise boarding and alighting and give the right-away signal if no station staff is available, for if only there is only one station porter on duty he may be on the opposite platform.
1963 October, “News and Comment”, in Modern Railways, page 228:
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