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Significats de engine shed en anglès

rus
железнодорожное депо
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lloc de manteniment ferroviari
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Building (having any form) where locomotives are housed, washed, serviced.

lloc de manteniment ferroviari
Ús de engine shed en anglès
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Indeed I can wincingly remember one about refrigerated corpses and another about premature ejaculation at a certain north London engine shed.
The Guardian
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Then there was noise of insects chirping in the grass and of steam escaping from the locomotive boilers in the engine shed.
Tales from Bohemia
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I could hear a number of noises almost like those in an engine shed; and the place rocked with that beating thud.
The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
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While he issued directions through a telephone to what, I presume, was the engine shed, I drew up a couple of telegrams.
The Beetle: A Mystery
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It is evident that he entered the engine shed through a skylight, which seems to show lawful business was not on his mind.
Raising Steam
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Another street to the left; but at the end of it we saw only a tavern, some tall rails, and an old engine shed.
Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregation...
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Far ahead the panting engine shed from its open fire-box an aureole of glaring red as the stoker fed coal into its rapacious maw.
The Hollow of Her Hand
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A gang of platelayers and navvies were making a new siding by the station, and sounds of hammering also came from the engine shed.
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
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Dodging sparks, they arrived at the doorway of the monstrous engine shed guarded by one of Harry's heavies, who glared even at his employer.
Raising Steam
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Beyond the engine sheds, they raced beside an iron fence.
Dogsbody
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Whoever you can fetch, come with them to the south of the engine sheds at dusk.
Empire in black and gold
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Tickets £12 in advance, £14 on the door For The Engine Shed, walk in or tel: 0844 888 8766.
The South African
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If only the window fastenings would prove refractory and hinder them till he could steal behind the engine sheds and reach the big gates!
Dick Lionheart
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