railhead

Noun

Meaning

a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution

the end of the completed track on an unfinished railway

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

grand depot head front gateway avant-garde fungus bridgehead spearhead terminus beachhead airhead bollard railway station starting point
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Antonyms

last barrier defender backstop rearguard guard at the back
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Hypernyms

depot end storage store terminal entrepot

Anagrams

headrail

Examples

As part of the land and political deal whereby the area of the townsite was made the railhead of the CPR, it was renamed "Vancouver" and incorporated shortly thereafter as a city, in 1886. Source: Internet

As such it has carried not only passenger services between Derry and Belfast but also CIÉ freight services using Derry as a railhead for Donegal. Source: Internet

At a meeting to inaugurate the Northern Corridor Transit Coordination Authority (NCTCA), the governments of Uganda and Burundi backed the proposed new railway from the Ugandan western railhead at Kasese into the DRC. Source: Internet

In 1869 the Central Pacific established Kelton, Utah as a railhead and the terminus of the western mail was moved from Salt Lake City. Source: Internet

NPS website, "Twenty Mule Teams" The end product was shipped out of the valley convert to the Mojave railhead in 10-ton-capacity wagons pulled by " twenty-mule teams " that were actually teams of 18 mules and two horses each. Source: Internet

Showalter, 1991, p. 263. To add to their worries, German aerial scouts reported that still more of Samsonov’s army was detraining at his railhead. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

railfare railful railgun railing railinged railingless