recovery time

English

Noun

recovery time (plural recovery times)

1. (rail transport) Additional time built into a train timetable to allow the train to recover from any delays en route, without arriving at its destination late according to the published arrival time.
   • 1959 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 475:

     Actually, the point-to-point times in general were not varied; the additions were all in the form of blocks of recovery time over certain selected stretches of line.

Related terms

• recovery time objective

References

• “recovery time”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.