释义 |
rolling stockˈrolling stock noun [uncountable] - A £300 million contract to build rolling stock has been won by GEC-Alsthom.
- A new engineering base is being established at Churston where rolling stock will be maintained and serviced.
- But engineers think that the kind of lightweight rolling stock increasingly used on the network will remain vulnerable to autumn leaves.
- For reasons explained in the rolling stock chapter, they were not entirely satisfactory and were returned at the end of 1923.
- Railways needed locomotives, rolling stock and signalling equipment, besides rails and bridges.
- The railroads needed them to keep their rolling stock rolling.
- The West Coast main line was electrified in the 1960s and much rolling stock is 15 to 20 years old.
- The yard was a desert of flint chips and rolling stock that was almost extinct.
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