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Transport / Transportation / Shipping / management of tram schedules | | French term or phrase: avant-gare | "Gestion des terminus
Les plans de voie montrent que les terminus sont prévus d’être gérés par avant-gare. Cette procédure permet de gagner les temps de rebroussement liés à une gestion par arrière-gare." |
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| | pre-arrival | Explanation:
The business about wasting time with "rebroussement" suggests that trains go straight to where they will be required to depart from next, through forward planning, rather than having them go to a scheduled platform, then have to shunt about to another platform for the next departure.
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Note added at 4 hrs (2008-10-10 23:31:44 GMT)
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Pour la première fois sur le réseau parisien, le terminus ne comporte pas d'arrière-gare à cause du manque de place, les manœuvres s'exécutant en avant-gare
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_10_du_métro_de_Paris
"avant-gare" defined at http://dictionnaire.reverso.net/francais-definitions/gare
Il faudrait donc engager des travaux de construction d 'une arrière-gare, soit une centaine de mètre de tranchée supplémentaire, ...
www.techno-science.net/?onglet=glossaire&definition=15617
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Explanation:
The business about wasting time with "rebroussement" suggests that trains go straight to where they will be required to depart from next, through forward planning, rather than having them go to a scheduled platform, then have to shunt about to another platform for the next departure.
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Note added at 4 hrs (2008-10-10 23:31:44 GMT)
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Pour la première fois sur le réseau parisien, le terminus ne comporte pas d'arrière-gare à cause du manque de place, les manœuvres s'exécutant en avant-gare
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_10_du_métro_de_Paris
"avant-gare" defined at http://dictionnaire.reverso.net/francais-definitions/gare
Il faudrait donc engager des travaux de construction d 'une arrière-gare, soit une centaine de mètre de tranchée supplémentaire, ...
www.techno-science.net/?onglet=glossaire&definition=15617
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