shunting yard.

A railway yard where locomotives move and sort rail vehicles into trains or other arrangements.

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Words that belong together

• a railway shunting yard
• tracks in a shunting yard

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Couplings rang across the shunting yard long after the passenger platforms fell quiet.

The shunting yard separated the workers’ houses from the river.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Singular shunting yard; plural shunting yards. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.