road-railer

English

Etymology

From road-rail +‎ -er

Noun

road-railer (plural road-railers)

  1. (rail transport) A road vehicle that can be used on railway track by lowering retractable railway wheels on to the track at a suitable level place.
    • 2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 40:
      "I had to stand by for half an hour, which is a long time when you're dealing with an incident, until we could get a road-railer up to decant the passengers, get them to the nearest access point and into taxis, so we could deal with the incident.
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