railway key

English

Noun

railway key (plural railway keys)

(rail transport) A key that allows one to lock and unlock doors to railway carriages and compartments, typically only permitted to railway employees.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  It was more like a model of an antediluvian railway key than anything else.

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