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steam age en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The time when trains were powered by steam locomotives.
    • The Stage I electrified area has been resignalled throughout with colour-lights, which in due course will be associated with B.R. standard A.W.S., and 27 signalboxes now do the work of the steam age's 56. 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713:
  2. (uncountable) A period of industrialisation when steam power was used.