in open store

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in open store

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1

In uncovered storage when out of use, and thus in a place open to the elements.

The locomotive had been magnificently burnished at Norwich depot, with polished brasswork and red-painted coupling rods—all the more creditable, Dr. Allen adds, as it spent many months last winter in open store.1960 March 23, “Notes and News: Two Scenes from Norfolk”, in Railway Magazine, page 214:

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