train shed

See also: trainshed

English

Alternative forms

• trainshed

Noun

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'.

Synonyms

• overall roof

Related terms

• tramshed, tram shed

Translations

a building, adjacent to a railway station, covering the tracks and platforms with a roof

• Hungarian: csarnok (hu)

References

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

Anagrams

• interdash, tarnished