block system
nounRailroads.
a series of consecutive blocks.: Compare block (def. 22).
a system of blocks and block signals for controlling train movements.
Origin of block system
1First recorded in 1860–65
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How to use block system in a sentence
"I don't know what is meant by the block system," added Mrs. Belgrave.
Asiatic Breezes | Oliver OpticThey had the whole district organized on the block system, and they went over each block house by house.
How To Write Special Feature Articles | Willard Grosvenor BleyerWe may now pass to the working of the block system of signalling trains from station to station on one line of a double track.
How it Works | Archibald WilliamsA block system is devised and partly made, but is not yet erected.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 417 | VariousThere was only a single track then, and no block system of signals.
In a Little Town | Rupert Hughes
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