"single-track" meaning in English

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          "word": "double-track"
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          "word": "twin-track"
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          "ref": "1942 February 1, “Pennsylvania Installs Centralized Traffic Control On 60.7 Miles of Single Track”, in Railway Signalling, Chicago, page 78:",
          "text": "[…]a single-track main line between Richmond, Ind., and Norwood Heights, Ohio",
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        {
          "ref": "2013 March 1, “Fears for future of vital link between two train stations”, in The Kent and Sussex Courier, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, page 14:",
          "text": "It was once the busiest singletrack section of railway line in the country but, almost three decades after its closure, the short route which once linked Tunbridge Wells’s two stations is a ghostly presence",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 February 18, Peter Le Feuvre, “Letter to the editor”, in The Daily Telegraph, page 17:",
          "text": "On the now defunct Guildford-to-Horsham line, there was a foolproof way of avoiding collisions on singletrack lines",
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        "Having only a single track so that trains may only run in one direction at a time."
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        "(rail transport) Having only a single track so that trains may only run in one direction at a time."
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          "word": "single-tracking"
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        {
          "word": "one-track"
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          "word": "singletrack"
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          "word": "dual-track"
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        {
          "word": "streaming"
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          "ref": "2003 April 19, Paul Strickland, “Single-track Montessori on hold until 2004”, in Prince George Citizen, Prince George, British Columbia, page 3:",
          "text": "Highglen elementary school will maintain a dual-track system of a Montessori program and a regular neighbourhood school program side-by-side for one more year, Prince George trustees decided this week. In January, the board had voted in favour of making the Montessori program into a single-track program where it would occupy an entire school like Highglen.",
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        {
          "ref": "2006 April 15, “Our voice”, in The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, California, page B10:",
          "text": "This week the district placed Cathedral City Elementary and Landau Elementary back to a “single-track” schedule in which all students attend school on the same days throughout the year. A few years ago, overcrowding forced the district to split students into tracks so that some kids attended classes while others were on vacation.",
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        "Having a single curriculum or other educational approach for all students."
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        "(education) Having a single curriculum or other educational approach for all students."
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          "ref": "2013 March 1, “Fears for future of vital link between two train stations”, in The Kent and Sussex Courier, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, page 14:",
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        "(rail transport) Having only a single track so that trains may only run in one direction at a time."
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          "text": "Highglen elementary school will maintain a dual-track system of a Montessori program and a regular neighbourhood school program side-by-side for one more year, Prince George trustees decided this week. In January, the board had voted in favour of making the Montessori program into a single-track program where it would occupy an entire school like Highglen.",
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        },
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "singletrack"
    }
  ],
  "word": "single-track"
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