trackside

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Located to the side of a track, especially a racetrack or set of railroad tracks.

   • This halt is notable for its very pretty trackside garden, which has won prizes in the Western Region station gardens competition.
   • Many workers were killed as they squeezed into a trackside niche or the narrow space between tracks to get out of the way of an oncoming train […]
   • Over the past two years, particularly in 2018, Network Rail has come under fire about its approaches to trackside tree-felling across its 52,000-hectare estate. Conservationists accused it of wanton destruction.
2. 2

   The area that borders a track.

   • Habitat: Growing in shaded places in forests, along pathways and tracksides or along rivers and streams; altitudinal range 1 400-3 250 m.
   • For another writer, the lack of harm or moral acceptability of painting trains or tracksides flows from the nature of the location itself as 'dead space'.

The neighborhood