train shed

Alternative forms

• trainshed

Noun

train shed (plural train sheds)

1. (rail transport) A building, adjacent to a railway station building, covering the tracks and platforms with a roof.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 79:

     As David Leboff points out in London Underground Stations, it is the giant train shed [at Earl's Court] with its iron and glass roof that gives the station its 'main line railway feel'.

References

• “train shed”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

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