1892 B. Potter 26 July (1966) 239 It [sc. a hedgehog] was gobbling up little spring cabbages in a promising little Railway Garden.
1974 3 41 The tiny ‘pleasure gardens’ of the poor..—railway gardens and the like.
2006 (Nexis) 26 Feb. a18 Station agents were pressured by supervisors to build and tend gardens, until railway gardens were the rule rather than the exception.