Meanings
nounstop board (plural stop boards)
plural stop boards
- alternativeAlternative form of stopboard.
Stop boards were provided to halt B.P.G.V.R. trains, and the drivers had to satisfy themselves that the line was not occupied before proceeding slowly.
1953 November, John Bourne, “The Burry Port & Gwendraeth Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 744
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