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Railhead

noun
1.
A railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution.
2.
The end of the completed track on an unfinished railway.





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"Railhead" Quotes from Famous Books



... been occupied in March, and the Turks driven up the river to Ramadie; and on 23 April Maude completed his advance up the Tigris by the capture of Samara, where the section of the railway running north from Baghdad came to an end. Hundreds of miles separated it from the other railhead at Nisibin, and with his front pushed out on the rivers to eighty miles from Baghdad, and with the Russians in touch with his right and holding the route into Persia, Maude might well rest for the summer content with the security of his ...
— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard


Words linked to "Railhead" :   store, storage, entrepot, terminal, storehouse, depot, end


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