trackwork

English

Alternative forms

track-work

Etymology

From track +‎ work.

Noun

trackwork (uncountable)

(rail transport) Construction or maintenance of railroad tracks
The train is going to be delayed by ten minutes due to trackwork.
- 2020 April 8, Paul Stephen, “ECML dive-under drives divergence”, in Rail, pages 44–45:
  A small number of weekday and weekend possessions will also be required on June 20-21, September 5-6, and between December 19-March 2021, but will coincide with when there will already be a limited (or no) service into London King's Cross in conjunction with the extensive trackwork taking place at the terminus.
(rail transport) The tracks and associated equipment of a railway line.
- 1963 October, G. Freeman Allen, R. K. Evans, “The Japanese National Railways and the New Tokaido Line”, in Modern Railways, page 240:
  The advantages of this policy were twofold - the operation of m.u. trains only, with their lighter axle load, would allow the trackwork and underbridges to be simpler and lighter in construction; and speeds up to 150 m.p.h. could more easily be achieved than with conventional locomotive-hauled trains.
- 1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 412:
  At present the principal exercise in resignalling and new trackwork involves the Pickering area.
(horse racing) Practice in racing around a track
- 2009 January 30, Tim Habel, “Short journey to suit Hussler”, in Herald Sun‎^[1]:
  McDonald described Weekend Hussler's trackwork this preparation as "frightening".

References

“trackwork”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.