trackside

English

From track +‎ -side.

trackside (not comparable)

Located to the side of a track, especially a racetrack or set of railroad tracks.
- 2007 May 5, William Neuman, “Looking Back at 6 Decades of Subway Worker Deaths”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  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 […]
- 2020 June 3, Andrew Mourant, “A safer railway in a greener habitat”, in RAIL, page 58:
  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.

trackside (plural tracksides)

The area that borders a track.
- 1980, Impatiens of Africa, page 122:
  Habitat: Growing in shaded places in forests, along pathways and tracksides or along rivers and streams; altitudinal range 1 400-3 250 m.
- 2016, Marta Iljadica, Copyright Beyond Law: Regulating Creativity in the Graffiti Subculture:
  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'.