wheel shop

noun

A workshop where wheels of locomotives and other railway vehicles are maintained.

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Meanings

nounwheel shop (plural wheel shops)

plural wheel shops

  1. rail transportA workshop where wheels of locomotives and other railway vehicles are maintained.
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    In the wheel shop a wheel-welding machine, the first of its kind on British Railways when it was installed in 1955, uses a "Lincoln" submerged arc welding head to build up the diameter of old wheel centres (from the 1880 to 1910 era). [p162] Eastleigh Locomotive Works: Layout and functions of shops [...] Wheel Shop: Preparation and assembly of wheel and axle sets.

    1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 159, 162
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