Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun railhead
2 senses of railhead
Sense 1
railhead -- (a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution)
=> storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage, store -- (a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks")
Sense 2
railhead -- (the end of the completed track on an unfinished railway)
=> end, terminal -- (either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"; "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix")