train shed

See also: trainshed

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train shed (plural train sheds)

  1. (rail transport) A building, adjacent to a railway station, covering the tracks and platforms with a roof.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 79:
      As David Leboff points out in London Underground Stations, it is the giant train shed [at Earl's Court] with its iron and glass roof that gives the station its 'main line railway feel'.

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  • overall roof

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