single-track

single-track
/sing"geuhl trak"/, adj.
1. (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
2. having a narrow scope; one-track: He has a single-track mind.
[1825-35, Amer.]

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