cess path

cess path (plural cess paths)

1. (rail transport) Path running along the cess next to a railway line.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia‎, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 202:

     […] the truck was lifted and the crumped mass freed from wheels and springs and rails and laid on a blanket on the cess-path […]

   • 1989, Oliver Gilbert, The Ecology of Urban Habitats‎, London: Chapman & Hall, published 2012, section 8.1:

     So successful are the spray mixtures applied in early summer each year that along mainlines very little grows on the permanent way or cess path.