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Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / service provider | | French term or phrase: calage des wagons | From a brochure for a company providing industrial services.
Manutention ferroviaire
- pesée des wagons en entrée et sortie,
- reception et **calage des wagons**,
- contrôle visuel d'aptitude à la remise en circulation,
- mise à disposition pour évacuation,
- ouverture / fermeture des portails d'accès, sécurité des manoeuvres. |
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| | chocking | Explanation:
Remember that wagons tilt when travelling round curves, so the load may be .... Chocking is the technique of using blocks, wedges and chocks to secure a ...
www.tollrail.co.nz/docs/pdf/05LoadSecurityandSafety.pdf
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Note added at 5 mins (2007-07-12 07:09:09 GMT)
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The Company therefore submitted a proposal to cease chocking coaches on single-deck tourist wagons. They argued that the chocks were unnecessary due to the ...
www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/rail/safetystandards/safety/ctsa/channel...
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Note added at 5 hrs (2007-07-12 12:36:31 GMT)
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Scotch
Noun
Now chiefly Scot. & dial. E17.
A wedge or block placed under or against a wheel, cask, etc., to prevent movement or slippage.
2. verb trans. Block or wedge (a wheel, cast, etc.) with a scotch to prevent movement or slippage. Also foll. by up. M17.
Chock
noun
1. A block of wood, esp. a wedge for stopping the motion of a cask or wheel; a block (of wood or other material) placed in front of an aeroplane wheel as a brake. ME.
3. verb trans. Fit or make fast with a chock or chocks; wedge up tightly. M19.
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