Meaning of point heater | Babel Free

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A heating device used in freezing weather to keep points (US: switches) free of ice and snow.

UK

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“Measures adopted by B.R. to offset the effects of another hard winter include⟳ modifications to steam heating and water pipes on main-line ordinary coaches and sleeping cars, and to diesel locomotive steam-generators, the supply⟳ of additional point⟳ heaters and the provision of larger and more effective snowploughs. [...] This winter B.R. will have⟳ 2,180 point⟳ heaters in operation, at a cost⟳ of roughly £105 a unit, compared with 766 last⟳ year, and the Board⟳ hope⟳ to install⟳ another 300 during the course of the winter.”

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