railhead (redirected from railheads)

rail·head  (rlhd)

n.

1. The farthest point on a railroad to which rails have been laid.

2. A place on a railroad where military supplies are unloaded.

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railhead [ˈreɪlˌhɛd]

n

1. (Transport / Railways) a terminal of a railway

2. (Transport / Railways) the farthest point reached by completed track on an unfinished railway

3. (Military) Military the point at which material and personnel are transferred from rail to another conveyance

4. (Transport / Railways) the upper part of a railway rail, on which the traffic wheels run

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A point on a railway where loads are transferred between trains and other means of transport. See also navigation head.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	railhead - a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage, store - a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks"
	2.	railhead - the end of the completed track on an unfinished railway end, terminal - either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"; "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix"

Translations

railhead [ˈreɪlhed] N → estación f terminal, cabeza f de línea