"fourth rail" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fourth rails",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fourth rail (plural fourth rails)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Electricity",
          "orig": "en:Electricity",
          "parents": [
            "Electromagnetism",
            "Physics",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "London",
          "orig": "en:London",
          "parents": [
            "Greater London, England",
            "England",
            "United Kingdom",
            "British Isles",
            "Europe",
            "Islands",
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Places",
            "Nature",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1948 January and February, C. R. L. Coles, “The Grouping Era”, in Railway Magazine, page 21:",
          "text": "It was the only line to operate by means of the third-rail system (as distinct from the fourth-rail system now universal on all London's Underground railways) and its coaches were of different design and appearance from those on other systems.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 103:",
          "text": "The railway used the 'Third Rail' system of electrification, like all the early Tubes. (But it would soon be replaced across the network by another system even more exciting - Fourth''' Rail!)",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An extra rail in addition to the third rail (live rail) which is used for current return purposes, mainly by London Underground, because of problems caused by using the running rails for current return underground."
      ],
      "id": "en-fourth_rail-en-noun-9mpWPfv2",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "third rail",
          "third rail#English"
        ],
        [
          "live rail",
          "live rail"
        ],
        [
          "current",
          "current"
        ],
        [
          "return",
          "return"
        ],
        [
          "London Underground",
          "London Underground"
        ],
        [
          "running rail",
          "running rail"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) An extra rail in addition to the third rail (live rail) which is used for current return purposes, mainly by London Underground, because of problems caused by using the running rails for current return underground."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fourth rail"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fourth rails",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fourth rail (plural fourth rails)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Electricity",
        "en:London",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1948 January and February, C. R. L. Coles, “The Grouping Era”, in Railway Magazine, page 21:",
          "text": "It was the only line to operate by means of the third-rail system (as distinct from the fourth-rail system now universal on all London's Underground railways) and its coaches were of different design and appearance from those on other systems.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 103:",
          "text": "The railway used the 'Third Rail' system of electrification, like all the early Tubes. (But it would soon be replaced across the network by another system even more exciting - Fourth''' Rail!)",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An extra rail in addition to the third rail (live rail) which is used for current return purposes, mainly by London Underground, because of problems caused by using the running rails for current return underground."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "third rail",
          "third rail#English"
        ],
        [
          "live rail",
          "live rail"
        ],
        [
          "current",
          "current"
        ],
        [
          "return",
          "return"
        ],
        [
          "London Underground",
          "London Underground"
        ],
        [
          "running rail",
          "running rail"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) An extra rail in addition to the third rail (live rail) which is used for current return purposes, mainly by London Underground, because of problems caused by using the running rails for current return underground."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fourth rail"
}