From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrailheadrail‧head /ˈreɪlhed/ noun [countable]the end of a railway lineExamples from the Corpusrailhead• It was a long haul across the highland roads to the nearestairport and railhead at Inverness.• The great stations in these cities thus became massivemeatrailheads.• The eastshore of the bay had no airport landing strip, no railhead, no long-distancebusterminal.• Lilting Orcadian voiceschatteredbehind; this line goes to the furthest northernrailhead of Britain.• Remember the march from the railhead to the bivouac at St Omer?• From the railheads, professionalbuffalohuntersfanned out across the plains.• The first two processes to be looked at are FlaskHandling from pond to railhead, and the training process.From Longman Business Dictionaryrailheadrail‧head /ˈreɪlhed/ noun [countable]TRANSPORTthe place where a railway line endsThe barges pull up to a railhead.
