Usually means: Gap guiding wheels on tracks.
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  1. flangeway: Merriam-Webster
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Definitions from Wiktionary (flangeway)

noun:  (rail transport, historical) An early type of railway that used flanged rails rather than flanged wheels.
noun:  (rail transport) The gap in road surfaces, running rails at rails at junctions, etc, that allows the wheel flange of a rail vehicle to pass.

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