slab-track

verb

To lay slab track on a section of railway line.

Meanings

verbslab-track (third-person singular simple present slab-tracks, present participle slab-tracking, simple past and past participle slab-tracked)

present singular third person slab-tracks · participle present slab-tracking · participle past slab-tracked · past slab-tracked

  1. rail transportTo lay slab track on a section of railway line.

    "Going to W12 gauge requires some significant work in those tunnels. The current scheme is showing that we're going to slab-track both of those tunnels.

    2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “Trans-Pennine... transformative”, in RAIL, number 970, page 40
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