equipo de clavado
English translation: sleeper-fastening equipment
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|  Selected response from: patinba Argentina Local time: 04:01 | ||||||
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| 4 | plate-laying crew/gang |
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| 3 +1 | sleeper-fastening equipment |
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plate-laying crew/gang Explanation: The rails are of course not fixed directly to the sleepers - there's an intermediate piece called a 'bearing plate', which was traditionally nailed (clavado) onto the sleeper. The Iron Snake - Page 126 - Google Books Result https://books.google.cl/books?isbn=1883911729 John Gaudet - 2007 - Fiction He had been dazzled by the speed and precision of the Indian plate-laying gang ... I mean, there's no question that their plate-laying crews are fast, and they can ... |
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49 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1sleeper-fastening equipment Explanation: perhaps, given my previous answer for clavado -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 50 mins (2015-02-27 17:07:40 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Just Googled it: Railway Sleeper Fastening Equipment Merchant/Supplier in ... www.applegate.co.uk/... Chiltern Timber and Building Supplies Hertfordshire supplies Railway Sleeper Fastening Equipment Merchant/Supplier in Kirkby Lonsdale., Timber-86341, Chiltern Timber are Railway Sleeper Fastening Equipment Me... |
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