knitting

1. (rail transport, informal, UK) overhead electrification wires, OHLEExamples: "Fair point. Instead of tearing down the knitting and using diesel, tear down the knitting and use turbines."; "It also helps, if: [...] the knitting is aligned with the track below, or rather vice versa, something else that went after 1996."; "My suggestion would be to electrify the uphill bits only, in each direction, and to use diesel traction when coming down the other side. Massive savings on posts and knitting for a start."UKcountableinformaluncountable