plateway means an early form of railway using L-shaped iron rails. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 93 out of 100.
Etymology
From plate + way.
noun
- An early form of railway using L-shaped iron rails.“The late Mr. Clement E. Stretton wrote that it was decided in 1785 to lay a plateway "from the dock at Loughborough to Nanpanton, a distance of three miles, but this system of plateway had to be abandoned, as the Road Commissioners would not allow a ledge to project upwards in their road."”