noun A place on a rail network where passengers or goods are put on, taken off, or moved onto other transport.
- It would also offer an important opportunity to move construction materials in bulk, using a new railhead.
— John Glover, Heathrow rail expansion (2019)
noun The upper surface, or head, of a rail.
- High levels of railhead contamination (which can prevent train predictor systems working correctly) were present in the area - probably as a result of limited operation of the railhead treatment train, according to RAIB.
— , Network News: Railhead contamination contributed to level crossing near miss (2020)
- During the winter, we get really bad snow conditions. We can go to eight inches of snow above the railhead, then the trains are stopped. It's usually more like four inches, but you get big drifts up towards Rannoch.
— Paul Clifton, West is best in the Highlands (2023)
