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signal checks

signal checks is the plural of signal check.

Meaning of signal check

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

Questions about signal checks

What is signal checks the plural of?
Signal checks is the plural of signal check.

Words near signal checks in the dictionary

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

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