lifting shop

English

Noun

lifting shop (plural lifting shops)

1. (rail transport) A workshop where vehicles are lifted off their bogies for maintenance work to be carried out.
   • 1959 November, “L.T. and E.R. developments in East London”, in Trains Illustrated, page 527:

     The new depot, on which work started in May, 1956, has three reception roads leading to 13 sidings capable of taking 25 trains, a 450 ft.-long car examination shed with nine roads, a lifting shop with two roads and three permanent way sidings.