Meanings
nounfeeder station (plural feeder stations)
plural feeder stations
- businessA facility that takes power from the national grid and feeds it to overhead electrification lines on a railway.
Overlap spans and neutral sections have been provided at intervals along the line, which is thus sectioned electrically, not only at the feeder station and track sectioning cabins, but also by switches at certain overlap spans.
1959 June 29, “Clacton and Walton Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 379
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