scrapyard

noun

scrapyard

noun

Etymology From scrap + yard.

1

A junkyard; a place where scrap is stored, discarded or resold.

A steady procession of new Class 421 and '423' electric multiple units to the Southern Region from Derby and York allowed the despatch of many pre-nationalisation 2-BIL and 2-HAL units to scrapyards.2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 67:

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