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rack 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rack railway1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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