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signal check

signal check noun: an instance where a train must stop at a red signal, or slow down before passing a signal displaying a yellow aspect.

Noun

signal check (plural signal checks)

  1. An instance where a train must stop at a red signal, or slow down before passing a signal displaying a yellow aspect.
    • Of the failures to do so on the 23 other occasions, six only were attributed to the performance of the locomotives and the remainder to signal checks and permanent way cautions, particularly in the week following a parcels train derailment at Northallerton.1961 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The planning and execution of the new Leeds-Manchester service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 204

Forms of signal check

pluralsignal checks

Questions about signal check

What does signal check mean?
Signal check means an instance where a train must stop at a red signal, or slow down before passing a signal displaying a yellow aspect.
What part of speech is signal check?
Signal check is a noun.
What is the plural of signal check?
The plural of signal check is signal checks.

Words near signal check in the dictionary

  1. signal boxes
  2. signal bridge
  3. signal bridges
  4. signal cabin
  5. signal cabins
  6. signal check
  7. signal checks
  8. signal crayfish
  9. signal fire
  10. signal fires
  11. signal gantries

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