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relay room

relay room noun: a room in a railway signalling installation where relays for operating signals and points or switches are housed.

relay room: a room in a railway signalling installation where relays for operating signals and points or...
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Noun

relay room (plural relay rooms)

  1. A room in a railway signalling installation where relays for operating signals and points or switches are housed.
    • The hump cabin and its relay room are at the summit of the hump on the right-hand side, and the control tower is on the centre line of the yard between the primary and secondary retarders.1959 July, “Temple Mills Marshalling Yard”, in Railway Magazine, page 492
    • It also installed new control panels at Kingmoor Signal Box and a new operating system in the relay room.2026 January 21, Richard Wilcock, “Network Rail completes £200 million West Coast Main Line upgrades”, in RAIL, number 1053, page 10

Forms of relay room

pluralrelay rooms

Questions about relay room

What does relay room mean?
Relay room means a room in a railway signalling installation where relays for operating signals and points or switches are housed.
What part of speech is relay room?
Relay room is a noun.
What is the plural of relay room?
The plural of relay room is relay rooms.

Words near relay room in the dictionary

  1. relay
  2. relay cylinder
  3. relay cylinders
  4. relay race
  5. relay races
  6. relay room
  7. relay rooms
  8. relay station
  9. relay strike
  10. relay strikes
  11. relayed

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