railside en · ADJ
Etymology
From rail + -side.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Beside a railway.
The Auschwitz Album, owned by Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust museum, depicts the railside selection process at Birkenau, the area where trains arrived at the camp, as SS men herded new prisoners into lines.
2007 September 19, Neil A. Lewis, “In the Shadow of Horror, SS Guardians Frolic”, in New York Times: