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present singular third person remarshals · US participle present remarshaling · UK participle present remarshalling · US participle past remarshaled · US past remarshaled · UK participle past remarshalled · UK past remarshalled
- To marshal again; to rearrange.
Five marshalling yards in the vicinity—Pontypool Road, Rogerstone, Alexandra Dock Junction, East Usk Junction and Severn Tunnel Junction—remarshal much of this traffic into full train loads to destination.
1963 February, G. M. Kichenside, “The Newport (Mon.) resignalling scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 1251 more example
The BRB proposes to allow itself more elbow-room to re-marshal trains to meet varying day-to-day demands; on a train conveying mixed standard and first-class accommodation, the proportions of each may be variable if there is a higher demand for one category of seating on some days of the week. or at certain seasons - for example the period of the London Motor Show, when there is a big call on first class accommodation to the capital.
1964 February, “British Railways' passenger plans”, in Modern Railways, page 74
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