Adjective
Located to the side of a track, especially a racetrack or set of railroad tracks.
Usage- not-comparable
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This halt is notable for its very pretty trackside garden, which has won prizes in the Western Region station gardens competition.
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 […]
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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.
Noun
The area that borders a track.
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Habitat: Growing in shaded places in forests, along pathways and tracksides or along rivers and streams; altitudinal range 1 400-3 250 m.
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'.