rack railway

1. 1.

   railway for steep mountains; a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction

   Synonymscog railway

   Broaderrailway

Questions about rack railway

What does rack railway mean?

rack railway means "railway for steep mountains; a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction".

What is another word for rack railway?

Close synonyms include cog railway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rack railway a common word?

rack railway is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.