trackside
The area that borders a track.
Adjective
- Located to the side of a track, especially a racetrack or set of railroad tracks.
- This halt is notable for its very pretty trackside garden, which has won prizes in the Western Region station gardens competition. - 1954 November, P. W. Gentry, “The Lambourn Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page...
- Many workers were killed as they squeezed into a trackside niche or the narrow space between tracks to get out of the way of an oncoming train […] - 2007 May 5, William Neuman, “Looking Back at 6 Decades of Subway...
- Over the past two years, particularly in 2018, Network Rail has come under fire about its approaches to trackside tree-felling across its 52,000-hectare estate. Conservationists accused it of wanton destruction. - 2020...
Origin
Etymology tree English track Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side English -side English trackside From track + -side.
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Noun
- The area that borders a track.
- Habitat: Growing in shaded places in forests, along pathways and tracksides or along rivers and streams; altitudinal range 1 400-3 250 m. - 1980, Impatiens of Africa, page 122:
- For another writer, the lack of harm or moral acceptability of painting trains or tracksides flows from the nature of the location itself as 'dead space'. - 2016, Marta Iljadica, Copyright Beyond Law: Regulating...