warm store

English

Verb

warm store (third-person singular simple present warm stores, present participle warm storing, simple past and past participle warm stored)

  1. (rail transport, UK) To place in warm storage, electric trains in particular.
    • 2025 June 11, Richard Wilcock, “Helping to shape rail's future”, in RAIL, number 1037, page 25:
      Ackroyd points towards the section we are standing on: "We are electrifying these two roads from August, because we want to be able to warm store electric trains from the middle of the year."