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scissors crossing en · NOUN

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1. Synonym of scissors crossover.
   • Meantime, alterations at King William Street had become imperative, and by December 22, 1895, the station had been remodelled, as at Stockwell, to provide an island platform with lines each side, and a scissors crossing. 1941 May, “Jubilee of the City Tube”, in Railway Magazine, page 224:
   • At Newton Abbot, in addition to the four platform roads, there are two outside through roads. Halfway along the platforms there are scissors crossings between each through road and the adjacent platform road. 1953 February, Norman Crump, “Aller Junction Signalbox”, in Railway Magazine, page 83:

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scissors crossover