Meanings
plural snow drifts
- alternativeAlternative form of snowdrift.
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The 9.17 a.m. diesel train from Fraserburgh to Aberdeen, Scottish Region, was blocked by a snow drift just north of Newmachar Station on January 19. The 57 passengers were stranded for 15 hours. […] A steam relief train, which because of 10-ft. snow drifts could only approach to a quarter of a mile, took passengers off the diesel train at 4 a.m., and, preceded by an engine with snowplough, arrived at Aberdeen at 6.30 a.m.
1960 March 28, “Notes and News: Diesel Train Stranded in Snow Drift”, in Railway Magazine, page 213
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