"engine shed" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: engine sheds [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} engine shed (plural engine sheds)
  1. (rail transport, dated) A building for housing railway locomotives. Tags: dated Categories (topical): Buildings, Rail transportation Synonyms: locomotive shed, motive power depot Related terms: roundhouse Translations (railway building): 機務段 (Chinese Mandarin), 机务段 (jīwùduàn) (Chinese Mandarin), remise [common-gender] (Danish), veturivarikko (Finnish), lokomotivstall [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), lokomotivstall [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), железнодоро́жное депо́ (železnodoróžnoje depó) [neuter] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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