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Definition of Railway slide

Railway slide
Railroad Rail"road`, Railway Rail"way`, n. 1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. Note: The modern railroad is a development and adaptation of the older tramway. 2. The road, track, etc., with al the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver. Note: Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the commoner word in the United States. Note: In the following and similar phrases railroad and railway are used interchangeably: Atmospheric railway, Elevated railway, etc. See under Atmospheric, Elevated, etc. Cable railway. See Cable road, under Cable. Perry railway, a submerged track on which an elevated platform runs, fro carrying a train of cars across a water course. Gravity railway, a railway, in a hilly country, on which the cars run by gravity down gentle slopes for long distances after having been hauled up steep inclines to an elevated point by stationary engines. Railway brake, a brake used in stopping railway cars or locomotives. Railway car, a large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels fitted for running on a railway. [U.S.] Railway carriage, a railway passenger car. [Eng.] Railway scale, a platform scale bearing a track which forms part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars. Railway slide. See Transfer table, under Transfer. Railway spine (Med.), an abnormal condition due to severe concussion of the spinal cord, such as occurs in railroad accidents. It is characterized by ataxia and other disturbances of muscular function, sensory disorders, pain in the back, impairment of general health, and cerebral disturbance, -- the symptoms often not developing till some months after the injury. Underground railroad or railway. (a) A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as beneath the streets of a city. (b) Formerly, a system of co["o]peration among certain active antislavery people in the United States, by which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach Canada. Note: [In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was used.] ``Their house was a principal entrep[^o]t of the underground railroad.' --W. D. Howells.

Meaning of Railway slide from wikipedia

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- A slide fence is a structural fence designed to physically stop falling rocks from reaching the tracks. The fence is designed to retain a rockslide if...
- (signalling system) Gantry Institution of Railway Signal Engineers Railroad chronometer Rail sabotage Railway slide fence Signalling block system Signalling...
- Wheel slide protection and wheel slip protection are railway terms used to describe automatic systems used to detect and prevent wheel-slide during braking...
- Mountains lie to the east for much of the way to Valemount. Although railway slide fences protect the route alongside the mountains, the train usually...
- The Frank Slide was a m****ive rockslide that buried part of the mining town of Frank in the District of Alberta of the North-West Territories, Canada...
- Railway Sliding Switch Railcars at the midpoint switch Final railcar of a group approaches the midpoint The two row transfer table in Pilatus Railway...
- Chatterjee of NDTV opined, "The Railway Men is buo**** by a clutch of laudable performances and storytelling that does not slide below a certain level of competence...
- include the French 520 mm (20 in) railway howitzer which used cradle-sliding recoil. The American 14"/50 caliber railway gun Mark II used cradle-rolling...
- Delhi, East Haryana Tapkan, proposed with road and with railway sliding on the proposed rail sliding facilities as well as air cargo from IGI Delhi and proposed...