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  1. marshalling yardnoun

    a railway yard in which trains are assembled and goods are loaded

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  1. marshalling yard

    A classification yard (American and Canadian English (Canadian National Railway use)), marshalling yard (British, Hong Kong, Indian, Australian, and Canadian English (Canadian Pacific Railway use)) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a railway yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railway cars onto one of several tracks. First the cars are taken to a track, sometimes called a lead or a drill. From there the cars are sent through a series of switches called a ladder onto the classification tracks. Larger yards tend to put the lead on an artificially built hill called a hump to use the force of gravity to propel the cars through the ladder. Freight trains that consist of isolated cars must be made into trains and divided according to their destinations. Thus the cars must be shunted several times along their route in contrast to a unit train, which carries, for example, cars from the plant to a port, or coal from a mine to the power plant. This shunting is done partly at the starting and final destinations and partly (for long-distance-hauling) in classification yards.

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  1. marshalling yard

    A marshalling yard, also known as a classification yard, is a railway yard found at some freight train stations, where rail cars are sorted by destination and assembled into trains. The cars are pushed by a locomotive onto a hump, uncoupled, and then rolled downhill onto one of several parallel tracks where they form uncoupled lines of cars. Each new line assembled this way is typically destined for a different location.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of marshalling yard in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of marshalling yard in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9


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