trackside

English

Alternative forms

• track-side

Etymology

From track +‎ -side.

Adjective

trackside (not comparable)

1. Located to the side of a track, especially a racetrack or set of railroad tracks.
   • 1954 November, P. W. Gentry, “The Lambourn Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 744:

     This halt is notable for its very pretty trackside garden, which has won prizes in the Western Region station gardens competition.

   • 2007 May 5, William Neuman, “Looking Back at 6 Decades of Subway Worker Deaths”, in New York Times‎:

     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 […]

   • 2020 June 3, Andrew Mourant, “A safer railway in a greener habitat”, in RAIL, page 58:

     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.

Related terms

• (racetrack): off-track
• (railroad): siding

Noun

trackside (plural tracksides)

1. The area that borders a track.
   • 1980, Impatiens of Africa, page 122:

     Habitat: Growing in shaded places in forests, along pathways and tracksides or along rivers and streams; altitudinal range 1 400-3 250 m.

   • 2016, Marta Iljadica, Copyright Beyond Law: Regulating Creativity in the Graffiti Subculture:

     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'.

Anagrams

• Kardecist, dirt cakes, side track, sidetrack