Railway vs Switchback - What's the difference?
railway | switchback |
A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.
A transport system using these rails used to move passengers or goods.
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, chapter=2 A zigzag path, road or railway track; especially a railway track in which the train travels in a reverse direction at each switch
A hairpin bend.
A roller coaster.
As nouns the difference between railway and switchback
is that railway is a track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel while switchback is a zigzag path, road or railway track; especially a railway track in which the train travels in a reverse direction at each switch.As a verb switchback is
(label) to zigzag.railway
English
(wikipedia railway)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}