feeder station

English

Noun

feeder station (plural feeder stations)

  1. (rail transport, electrical engineering) A facility that takes power from the national grid and feeds it to overhead electrification lines on a railway.
    • 1959 June, “Clacton and Walton Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 379:
      Overlap spans and neutral sections have been provided at intervals along the line, which is thus sectioned electrically, not only at the feeder station and track sectioning cabins, but also by switches at certain overlap spans.

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