A person who opposed the building or expansion of railroads, especially in the 19th century.
From anti- (against) + railway + -ist (suffix for a person with a particular belief or practice). This historical term emerged in the 1800s when railroads were controversial.
It's wild to imagine people actively opposing railroads, but landowners, canal operators, and horse-drawn transport workers genuinely feared them—'antirailwayists' fought progress they couldn't stop!
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