head of rail

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the farthest point to which railway service extends; the terminus of a railway.

See: end of steel(def. 1a)

Quotations

1952

The fish from Great Slave Lake are frozen . . . and shipped southwards . . . to the head of rail in Alberta.