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gate box

gate box noun: a signal box that controls a level crossing.

gate box: a signal box that controls a level crossing
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Noun

gate box (plural gate boxes)

  1. (UK) A signal box that controls a level crossing.
    • This 142-year-old tiny ex-LNWR SB [signal box, at Batley] is an amazing survivor, probably owing its longevity to its location alongside a level crossing. Indeed it started life as a gate box with the delightful name of Lady Ann's Crossing.2020 July 1, David Allen, “Signalling from Leeds along the S&C”, in Rail, page 74

Forms of gate box

pluralgate boxes

Questions about gate box

What does gate box mean?
Gate box means a signal box that controls a level crossing.
What part of speech is gate box?
Gate box is a noun.
What is the plural of gate box?
The plural of gate box is gate boxes.

Words near gate box in the dictionary

  1. gatchwork
  2. Gatcombe
  3. gate
  4. gate array
  5. gate arrays
  6. gate box
  7. gate boxes
  8. Gate City
  9. gate crash
  10. gate crashed
  11. gate crasher

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