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Definition of marshalling yard in English: marshalling yardnoun British A large railway yard in which freight wagons are organized into trains. Example sentencesExamples - Tracks in the marshalling yard consisted of two groups of six tracks each, 2380 to 2680 feet long.
- Railway procedures ensured that, every two or three hundred kilometres, goods trains would pause in marshalling yards, where they had to be re-labelled.
- Coal and other goods too are being transported to the railway marshalling yard by road.
- The photo targets were specified airfields, refineries, and railway marshalling yards.
- Chalk was important to yard operations for without it switching freight cars in marshalling yards would have been slower and much more difficult.
- The first relief train, from Los Angeles, steamed into the Berkeley marshalling yards by eleven that night.
- The network is alive night and day with the thundering rattle of powerful locomotives and the incessant clanking of machinery in repair depots and marshalling yards.
- Stations were often the scene of innovations because they had problems in parcel handling, rolling stock shunting and above all wagons in marshalling yards.
- If that were to happen, the railway itself would have to be rebuilt - stations, track and marshalling yards - and it would become as big an environmental nuisance as the road is now.
- It wants to build a rail transport hub on the site of the Tinsley marshalling yard which would take thousands of lorry journeys away from the region's roads each year.
- Part of the vaulted foundations to the goods shed and marshalling yard areas of the former railway station will also be removed.
- Once a busy rail marshalling yard, the seven-acre site has been transformed into a 581-space surface car park with top-of-the-range safety features.
- For many years, chalk played an important role in everyday railway operations in freight marshalling yards.
- A second look at the contractor's operations, their plant, equipment and marshalling yard, convinced me of their due diligence to complete the project on time.
- The Air Force began bombing targets in the Pas de Calais, railway marshalling yards and important bridges.
- The changed layout would incorporate a new entrance, marshalling yard, goods lift and stairwell and would see the removal of the staff lockers and office located on that level at present.
- The key components of the rail system, marshalling yards, were physically located in the midst of German urban areas.
- A new major new freight marshalling yard near Kleinburg was part of these plans.
- The misreading of the way of the world led to the construction of several almost completely useless marshalling yards.
- When the coal industry declined the huge marshalling yards in the areas were closed and this coupled with the modern ‘Firecracker ‘welded lines means that this source has dried up.’
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