car shed

noun

A large building provided for the housing and maintenance of passenger cars or carriages (or coupled trains thereof).

Meanings

nouncar shed (plural car sheds)

plural car sheds

  1. rail transportA large building provided for the housing and maintenance of passenger cars or carriages (or coupled trains thereof).
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    They form part of the vast electrification and reconstruction schemes which have been in hand for a number of years at Liverpool Street, and in suburban Essex, and include the rearrangement of tracks, of which the Ilford flyover forms part; the modern signal boxes, now needed only at key points; the electric control or sub-stations; and a large electric car shed.

    1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 44

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