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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
marshalling yard
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A silly old woman would be a menace in a marshalling yard.
▪ A striking example of rationalisation was the wholesale closure of the Severn Tunnel Junction marshalling yard complex in November 1987.
▪ He had been there for an hour in the darkness of the abandoned marshalling yard in the outer suburbs of East Berlin.
WordNet
marshalling yard

n. a railway yard in which trains are assembled and goods are loaded

Usage examples of "marshalling yard".

He did it by increments, letting Zirga find him outside in the old marshalling yard, inspecting the chickens or pigs, then a month later, when Zirga came upon Tal down in the tiny meadow on the lee side of the island, seeing how the cattle and sheep were doing, Zirga didn't object.

He could see what looked to be the old marshalling yard, now under a sheet of white snow, broken up with patches of grey and brown.

They crawled through a small door - disguised as stonework - in the base of the wall beyond the Princes marshalling yard, on the street closest to the palace.

He pocketed the coins and turned his back on the men, then focused on breasting his way through the snow, across the marshalling yard, to the barracks.

He took the reins, and as he turned his mount to the gate of the palace, he glanced around at the very busy marshalling yard and wondered where Erik was.

Their transfer had to buck and weave to dodge the wreckage, then take them straight to a TunnelCar marshalling yard beyond the city proper, a splay of cable filaments waving slowly in the gale like a vast anemone.