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Switchyard
Part of a railway with an arrangement of switches (or points) allowing trains to be diverted and reassembled.
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Part of a railway with an arrangement of switches (or points) allowing trains to be diverted and reassembled.
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| switching yardnoun | Alternative form of switchyard. [(rail transport) Part of a railway with an arrangement of switches (or points) allowing trains to be diverted and reassembled.] |
| switchnoun | A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow. |
| railroad switchnoun | (US, railways) A set of points. |
| rail yardnoun | A complex of branching railway lines and other infrastructure in which locomotives and rolling stock are stored and rearranged. |
| marshalling yardnoun | A railway yard where trains are assembled from individual carriages or goods wagons. |
| turnoutnoun | The number or proportion of people who attend or participate in an event (especially an election) or are present at a venue. |
| shuntnoun | An act of moving (suddenly), as due to a push or shove. |
| classification yardnoun | (rail transport, US) a railroad yard where incoming freight trains are sorted into various sidings. |
| trainyardnoun | railyard |
| freight yardnoun | A rail yard for freight cars, typically designed for loading and unloading cargo and sorting locomotives. |
| switchroomnoun | (telecommunications) A room, often an entire floor, containing switching equipment, especially for telephone lines. |
| marshallingnoun | (software) The process of transforming the memory representation of an object to a data format suitable for storage or transmission, which is typically used when data must be moved between different parts of a computer program, or from one program to another. |
| shunting necknoun | (rail transport) A length of dead-end track, e.g. alongside a main line, used for the purpose of allowing a train to shunt back into a siding or rail yard without the need for the train to occupy a running line. |
| backshuntnoun | (rail transport, UK) A section of railway track which gives access to a siding (or another section of railway line) only by reversing direction; also a train movement which uses such track. |
| goods yardnoun | An area associated with a railway station where freight is loaded and unloaded. |
| shipyardnoun | A place where ships are built and repaired. |
| hump yardnoun | (rail transport) a classification yard or marshalling yard which has a hump over which trains are shunted, the vehicles then running on their own by gravity into various sidings. |
| running shednoun | (rail transport) A building used for the maintenance and preparation for service of locomotives. |
| headshuntnoun | (rail transport, British) A short length of track, provided to release locomotives at terminal platforms, or to allow shunting to take place clear of main lines. |
| sidingnoun | (Canada, US) A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building. |
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