Incidentally they caused great scandal by finding in the Smolensk sidings among the locomotives and wagons supposed to be sick six good locomotives and seventy perfectly healthy wagons.
At the northern end of the great market is a section where express delivery traffic is dealt with, while the western side is occupied with sidings for loading produce sold to buyers from other German centers.
At the northern extremity of the buildings is the toll and receiving department, where produce is delivered at special sidings connected with the south railway station of the city.
There aresidings at Total Wreck, aren't there, Peet?
We have enough trackage in our yards and sidings to double track all the British railways, with enough over to put four tracks where they have only two tracks now.
Belah had now usurped the position of Rafa as railhead and the station had been greatly enlarged by the addition of numerous sidings for the reception of the heavy trains daily arriving from Kantara.
Railroad sidings must enlarge railroad capacity; more spur tracks must be built wherever we had railheads at the front, and regulating stations which should dispatch the trains to the railheads.
But Mr. Luellen has met this difficulty by arranging to have built at intervals not exceeding thirty miles along the entire Atlantic coast, short sidings flanked by heavy concrete bases.
But long hours either on the road or waiting on passing sidings worked great hardships to them.
There are paper mills here and inasmuch as they handle their products in carload lots on their own sidingsthere is need of a large force around the station.
Sidings three thousand feet long were located at each station and in some cases at points intermediate fifteen hundred feet long.
The Pennsylvania works with at least 24 freight stations, in addition to a great number of private sidings from its lines as they pass through Eastern New Jersey.
To appreciate the number and variety of these cars take a look at the passenger sidings at any of the large Florida beach hotels in midwinter.
It is a long structure, stretching its way down the yard and served by 8 to 10 long sidings and unloading sheds.
We find our way to a gaunt freight-house, to whose door no truck has ever backed, and which is hemmed in by many rows of sidings and of sheds.
At various points sidings will be constructed with low walls, just high enough to receive the cars when their gyroscope equilibrium ceases.
The travelling freight agents hang around sidings and breathe affection for manufacturers and wholesalers; they welcome to their very arms the business traffic-managers, who are really glorified shipping clerks for great big concerns.
Limiteds may paw their nervous heels uponsidings while she goes skimming up the line--all time-table rights are hers from the moment that she goes into service.
Because good railroading means yard-sidings cleared, and standing cars and freight, like passengers, kept constantly moving, he did not hesitate at ordering her out.
For three or four years, the Belgians saw the Germans constructing railroad sidings at Aix and making their preparations for the blow they struck.
The detraining stations are of sufficient length to accommodate the longest troop train (ten cars) easily, and they generally have at least four sidings apart from the through up and down lines.
The wayside stations were but sidings or halting-places where the locomotives drew coal and water, of which small supplies were usually stored under an Egyptian corporal's guard.
The desert railway being a single track, frequent sidings are indispensable for the better running of trains.
Now and then trains waited on sidings to let us by, and by that means we became separated from the other troop trains, our regiment leading all the others in the end by almost half a day.
Once or twice a day they brought us a bucket of water from which we were bidden drink in a great hurry while the train waited; yet often the train waited hours on sidings and no water at all was brought us.
It may be found more convenient on some lines to provide nearly level sidings and to impart the necessary momentum to the waiting truck, partly through the propelling agency of compressed air.
On a larger scale, no doubt in course of time, a somewhat similar plan will be brought into operation for causing loaded trucks to run from elevated sidings and to join themselves on to trains in motion.
Let it, in short, do all the work that is to be done; and as by this means there can be only one train at a time in operation, so there can never be any collisions, and sidings would be useless.
No sidings of any kind, so that local superintendence to shift points would be altogether avoided.
Their local development in the way of sidings and so forth is chiefly in the big towns, and small engines and cars are used.
You know that web of old abandoned sidings and spurs branching out the other side of Maddox?
The special in question was to be whooped through that afternoon, the run was one hundred and two miles, with plenty of sidings and passing tracks, and besides, old Dan Lacey, with engine No.
Those immense fellows of caliber from twelve to seventeen-inch, mounted on railway trucks, were lions asleep under their covers on the sidings which had been built for them.
At El Arish numerous sidings were built and stores and water were accumulated, and the small oasis of palm groves became a busy advanced base.
The gloomy tunnel and the sidings of submarine cars had vanished, and they were standing in a vast hall, an utterly strange and magnificent hall, staring up into the face of a creature crudely human and colored green!
He could go the most complicated catechism without a hitch every time, for Maje spent weeks on the sidings drilling him, until it came to naming the beneficiary; there he stuck.
Maje Sampson, with his beer kegs and his crackers and his 264 and his be-knighted fireman, hugged the sidings pretty close that week.
I came back on March 13, and I was amazed to see all those miles and miles of sidings filled with trucks piled with wood, with great posts, with planks, with steel rails, and what looked the material to build a big city or two.
At Wegberg and Rheydt, east of Dalheim, further sidings were provided which, like those at Dalheim, would not possibly be required for other than military reasons.
Under a well-organised system an adequate stock of supplies would, of course, have been kept in stores or on sidings at some point in the rear, only such quantities being forwarded to the advanced front as were really needed.
The Engineering Staff also effected in seven days a clearance through the Lang's Nek Tunnel, blown in by the Boers, and constructed several miles of new lines, sidings and deviations.
Jura) an accumulated stock of loaded wagons not only filled up all the sidings but blocked up a large portion of the main line.
Other sidings adjoining Dalheim station have no fewer than ten pairs of parallel rails, and there are still others on the west of the same station, towards the Dutch frontier.
The provision, more especially, of sidings such as these at local stations where the trains were few and far between and the ordinary merchandise was represented by some occasional coal trucks, could have but one purpose.
Between the two places were several blind sidings used as passing tracks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sidings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
