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(rail transport) Construction or maintenance of railroad tracks quotations examples
A small number of weekday and weekend possessions will also be required on June 20-21, September 5-6, and between December 19-March 2021, but will coincide with when there will already be a limited (or no) service into London King's Cross in conjunction with the extensive trackwork taking place at the terminus.
2020 April 8, Paul Stephen, “ECML dive-under drives divergence”, in Rail, pages 44–45
(rail transport) The tracks and associated equipment of a railway line. quotations examples
The advantages of this policy were twofold - the operation of m.u. trains only, with their lighter axle load, would allow the trackwork and underbridges to be simpler and lighter in construction; and speeds up to 150 m.p.h. could more easily be achieved than with conventional locomotive-hauled trains.
1963 October, G. Freeman Allen, R. K. Evans, “The Japanese National Railways and the New Tokaido Line”, in Modern Railways, page 240
At present the principal exercise in resignalling and new trackwork involves the Pickering area.
1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 412
(horse racing) Practice in racing around a track quotations examples
McDonald described Weekend Hussler's trackwork this preparation as "frightening".
2009 January 30, Tim Habel, “Short journey to suit Hussler”, in Herald Sun