Railroad Siding (Noun)
Meaning
A short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- A railroad siding is used to allow a faster train to pass a slower train on a single-track railroad line.
- The engineer moved the train to a railroad siding to perform a routine maintenance check on the brakes.
- Trains would wait on a railroad siding while they waited for their turn to use the rail yard's single exit track.
- Freight trains are often left on a railroad siding to clear the main track for higher priority passenger trains.
- At night, many of the freight trains were parked on the railroad siding while they were loaded and unloaded at the nearby terminal.