switch yard

noun

an area in a railway system where rolling stock is shunted, as in forming trains

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At the bank above the switch-yard he paused, keeping in a shadow, and looked here and there.

Snorky proudly brought forth a diagram which to Skippy's bewildered gaze looked like the cross section of a switch yard.

Thank Gawd, there was a back door openin' on a dark alley leadin' to the switch yard.

Just at the intersection of Bean Alley and the switch-yard, where the dusk banked up densely in the corners, he stopped again.

With watchful eyes for passers-by, he slipped through an opening in the fence, and entered the switch-yard.

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