steam age

English

Noun

steam age (uncountable)

(rail transport) The time when trains were powered by steam locomotives.
- 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713:
  The Stage I electrified area has been resignalled throughout with colour-lights, which in due course will be associated with B.R. standard A.W.S., and 27 signalboxes now do the work of the steam age's 56.
A period of industrialisation when steam power was used.

References

“steam age”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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