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grade-separated

grade-separated adjective: having routes that cross each other on different levels, avoiding the conflicts that occur with a flat junction at only one level.

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Adjective

grade-separated (not comparable)

  1. Having routes that cross each other on different levels, avoiding the conflicts that occur with a flat junction at only one level.
    • Potential answers here include remodelling the north junction to be grade-separated, adding an extra platform and track to allow more parallel moves, or by changing services so that trains from Wigan go towards Piccadilly and trains from Bolton head for Victoria.2020 January 2, Philip Haigh, “Is there relief to congestion along Castlefield Corridor?”, in RAIL, page 23

Questions about grade-separated

What does grade-separated mean?
Grade-separated means having routes that cross each other on different levels, avoiding the conflicts that occur with a flat junction at only one level.
What part of speech is grade-separated?
Grade-separated is an adjective.

Words near grade-separated in the dictionary

  1. grade-grub
  2. grade-grubbed
  3. grade-grubbing
  4. grade-grubs
  5. Grade-Ruan
  6. grade-separated
  7. grade-taking
  8. gradeability
  9. graded
  10. graded on a curve
  11. gradee

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