Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of reequipment.
The decade [1980s] was also one of re-equipment. More HSTs arrived, West Coast Main Line services received Mk 3 coaches, and the second generation of DMUs entered traffic.
2024 January 10, Philip Haigh, “Four decades of Britain's railway evolution - step by step”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 641 more example
They seem to fall well below the 100 m.p.h. standard of running so confidently promised when the 1955 modernisation and re-equipment plan was first made public by the British Transport Commission.
1960 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 110
Origin
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