car shed

English

Noun

car shed (plural car sheds)

1. (rail transport) A large building provided for the housing and maintenance of passenger cars or carriages (or coupled trains thereof).
   • 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 44:

     They form part of the vast electrification and reconstruction schemes which have been in hand for a number of years at Liverpool Street, and in suburban Essex, and include the rearrangement of tracks, of which the Ilford flyover forms part; the modern signal boxes, now needed only at key points; the electric control or sub-stations; and a large electric car shed.

Related terms

• car barn

See also

• train shed