Spanish solution

noun

A train station layout with platforms on both sides of the track, where one side is used for boarding the train and the other side is used for alighting.

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Meanings

nounthe Spanish solution (plural Spanish solutions)

plural Spanish solutions

  1. A train station layout with platforms on both sides of the track, where one side is used for boarding the train and the other side is used for alighting.

Origin

Coined in the 1930s from its first use in the Barcelona Metro.

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