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steam age

noun

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  1. The time when trains were powered by steam locomotives.

    • The Stage I electrified area has been resignalled throughout with colour-lights, which in due course will be associated with B.R. standard A.W.S., and 27 signalboxes now do the work of the steam age's 56.

  2. A period of industrialisation when steam power was used.

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