railhead

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rail·head /ˈreɪlhed/ noun [countableC]

the end of a railway line 铁路终点站；铁路终端

Examples from the Corpus

railhead• It was a long haul across the highland roads to the nearest airport and railhead at Inverness.• The great stations in these cities thus became massive meat railheads.• The east shore of the bay had no airport landing strip, no railhead, no long-distance bus terminal.• Lilting Orcadian voices chattered behind; this line goes to the furthest northern railhead of Britain.• Remember the march from the railhead to the bivouac at St Omer?• From the railheads, professional buffalo hunters fanned out across the plains.• The first two processes to be looked at are Flask Handling from pond to railhead, and the training process.

From Longman Business Dictionary

railheadrail·head /ˈreɪlhed/ noun [countableC]TRANSPORT

the place where a railway line ends

The barges pull up to a railhead.

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