steam age

noun

The time when trains were powered by steam locomotives.

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Meanings

nounsteam age (uncountable)
  1. uncountablerail transportThe time when trains were powered by steam locomotives.

    The Stage I electrified area has been resignalled throughout with colour-lights, which in due course will be associated with B.R. standard A.W.S., and 27 signalboxes now do the work of the steam age's 56.

    1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713
  2. uncountableA period of industrialisation when steam power was used.
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