rack railway

noun

1. cog railway.

rack railway

noun

1. a steep mountain railway having a middle rail fitted with a rack that engages a pinion on the locomotive to provide traction Also calledcog railway

Word History and Origins

Origin of rack railway¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

The Harz is penetrated by several railways, among them a rack-railway up the Brocken, opened in 1898.

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Here was the very place for a rack railway on some system like Abt's, it seemed to me.

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The main village is connected with Interlaken by a rack railway (13 m.).

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