ROLLING STOCK


Meaning of ROLLING STOCK in English

noun

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A £300 million contract to build rolling stock has been won by GEC-Alsthom.

A new engineering base is being established at Churston where rolling stock will be maintained and serviced.

But engineers think that the kind of lightweight rolling stock increasingly used on the network will remain vulnerable to autumn leaves.

For reasons explained in the rolling stock chapter, they were not entirely satisfactory and were returned at the end of 1923.

Railways needed locomotives, rolling stock and signalling equipment, besides rails and bridges.

The railroads needed them to keep their rolling stock rolling.

The West Coast main line was electrified in the 1960s and much rolling stock is 15 to 20 years old.

The yard was a desert of flint chips and rolling stock that was almost extinct.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.