erecting shop

plural erecting shops

1. datedA place where large machines, predominantly trains and their parts but also cranes, are assembled, adjusted, or repaired.

   Erecting-shop work was always hard and slogging, so that at the end of a 9¾ hour day there were not many who felt inclined for much more physical activity.

   1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285

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   The erecting shop has pit accommodation for 39 locomotives, [...] [p162] Eastleigh Locomotive Works: Layout and function of shops [...] Erecting Shop: Stripping and erection of locomotives and frame repairs.

   1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 159, 162