railroad siding

1. 1.

   a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass

   Synonymssidingturnoutsidetrack

   Broaderrailroad track

Questions about railroad siding

What does railroad siding mean?

railroad siding means "a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass".

What is another word for railroad siding?

Close synonyms include siding, turnout, sidetrack. 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 railroad siding a common word?

railroad siding 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.