English Dictionary

running powers

名詞

イギリス英語 複数形 複数形のみ

(rail transport, UK) Permission given in an agreement allowing one railway company to run trains over certain tracks belonging to another railway company.

日本語の意味

鉄道運行権：ある鉄道会社が、別の鉄道会社所有の線路上で自社の列車を運行する許可・権利

The smaller company negotiated running powers to operate passenger trains over the larger railway's tracks.

その小さな会社は、大手鉄道会社の線路上で旅客列車を運行する権利を交渉で獲得した。

意味（1）

(rail transport, UK) Permission given in an agreement allowing one railway company to run trains over certain tracks belonging to another railway company.

No wonder, then, that against a background of surging aggressive prosperity, South Wales built up during the last half of the nineteenth century a local railway system of great density and complexity, in which almost every company competed with every other in its area, and in which working agreements, running powers and strategic junctions ran riot across the railway map.