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Embankment vs Railbank - What's the difference?

embankment | railbank |

As nouns the difference between embankment and railbank

is that embankment is a long artificial mound of earth and stone, built to hold back water, for protection or to support a road while railbank is an embankment adjacent to railroad track.

As a verb railbank is

to convert an out-of-use railroad track into a trail for public use.

embankment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a long artificial mound of earth and stone, built to hold back water, for protection or to support a road

    • Related terms

    * Victoria Embankment

    railbank

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An embankment adjacent to railroad track.
  • *1990 , United States Congress House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies, Department of the Interior and related agencies appropriations for , p. 590:
    • This 200-mile long stretch of railbank property has four encampments of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To convert an out-of-use railroad track into a trail for public use.
  • *2004 , Joseph P. Schwieterman, When the Railroad Leaves Town , p. 223:
    • [T]he municipal government moved ahead with plans to railbank the 5-mile segment between Astoria and Tongue Point under the guidelines of the National Trail Systems Act.