Block system

noun

Definitions

1.nounOn railways, a system by which the track is divided into sections of three or four miles, and trains are run by the guidance of electric signals so that no train enters a section or block before the preceding train has left it.

Synonyms

block block section staff system block post cautionary block block instrument buffer route track circuit buffer stop single track double track

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