double track

See also: doubletrack and double-track

English

Noun

double track

1. (rail transport) A section of railway line or tramline consisting of two parallel tracks, one being used in one direction and the other in the opposite direction.
   • 1952 October, C. A. Johns, “One Hundred Years at Kings Cross—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 650:

     Between them, and fitted with the necessary turntables, capstans, and other appliances for transferring the small four-wheel carriages and vans from one track to another, were 14 tracks which converged outside the station into double-track through the Maiden Lane Tunnel, 528 yd. in length.

Related terms

• double-track
• double-tracking

Translations

two parallel tracks

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 複線／复线 (zh) (fùxiàn)

• Danish: dobbeltspor n
• Irish: iarnród déraonach m, iarnród dúbailte m
• Japanese: 複線 (ja) (ふくせん, fukusen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dobbeltspor n

  Nynorsk: dobbeltspor n

• Polish: dwutorowy (pl)